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TIFF ’26: Possible Love

TIFF ’26: Possible Love

In the latest from master Lee Chang-dong, Possible Love takes a look at the social and class gap between two couples who come together when the wealthier woman wants to make a documentary about the struggles of laid-off workers who strike against a corrupt company....

TIFF ’26: Ladies and Gentlemen Brian Mulroney

TIFF ’26: Ladies and Gentlemen Brian Mulroney

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney is a kaleidoscopic montage collage that takes you back to a comedic editing style that dates to before the internet or even on-demand TV. It tracks the rise to power of Brian Mulroney within the old Progressive Conservative Party...

TIFF ’26: Minotaur

TIFF ’26: Minotaur

A film that boils your blood, Minotaur is the newest bleak project in what I would dub an unofficial “affair” trilogy from Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev. While he has hinted at criticisms of Putin’s government before, here he takes full aim. It follows Gleb, the...

TIFF ’26: The Unknown

TIFF ’26: The Unknown

From the co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall (winner of the 2024 Best Original Screenplay Oscar) comes an arthouse body-swapping movie that moves slowly, with a ’70s style placed within the modern day. It follows David Zimmerman, who has a chance encounter with a woman...

TIFF ’26: All of a Sudden

TIFF ’26: All of a Sudden

As the director of a Long-Term Care Home struggles with new changes, she encounters a theatre director who is dying of cancer, and their relationship pushes and pulls them toward new philosophies of life, death, and art. This film is a testament to life. It's about...

TIFF ’26: Coward

TIFF ’26: Coward

Coward sees Belgian director Lukas Dhont digging into a part of World War I history that is rarely covered in movies and TV. He focuses on a theatre troupe made up of rejected soldiers who were tasked with putting on musical acts and plays to increase morale for the...

The Dog Stars: Quiet, Grief, Action!

The Dog Stars: Quiet, Grief, Action!

The Dog Stars is the new Ridley Scott movie based on the 2018 novel of the same name by author Peter Heller, which was adapted by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Twisters). The film finds Hig (Jacob Elordi), a grieving, young widower stranded in  his life in Erie,...

The Salt Path: Trying to Walk Into Hope

The Salt Path: Trying to Walk Into Hope

Raynor Winn (Gillian Anderson) and Moth Winn (Jason Isaacs) find themselves on a journey they never expected. Caught up in a legal kerfuffle, investment mistakes, and ultimately a court order forcing them from their home, their lives are suddenly turned upside down....