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TIFF ’25: Christy

TIFF ’25: Christy

David Michôd’s Christy is a bruising biopic anchored by Sydney Sweeney as pioneering boxer, Christy Martin. Sweeney embodies Martin’s grit and vulnerability, tracing her journey from small town toughwoman contests to the national spotlight. The fight scenes land with...

TIFF ’25: Dust Bunny

TIFF ’25: Dust Bunny

Bryan Fuller’s feature debut Dust Bunny is both outrageous and oddly tender, a dark fairy tale pitched between horror and whimsy. The story centers on a ten year old girl who hires her neighbor, a hitman played by Mads Mikkelsen, to kill the monster living under her...

TIFF ’25: The Napa Boys – Gleefully unhinged

TIFF ’25: The Napa Boys – Gleefully unhinged

Nick Corirossi turns absurdist comedy into something gleefully unhinged with The Napa Boys. Reuniting Armen Weitzman, Nelson Franklin, Mike Mitchell, and Jamar Neighbors, the film spoofs franchise storytelling by imagining a group of washed up, wine country legends...

TIFF ’25: Monkey in a Cage

TIFF ’25: Monkey in a Cage

Anurag Kashyap delivers another politically charged firebrand with Monkey in a Cage, a sprawling story set against India’s social fractures. The film refuses easy binaries: predator and prey shift roles as characters navigate corruption, poverty, and survival. Kashyap...

TIFF ’25: Train Dreams – Quietly devastating

TIFF ’25: Train Dreams – Quietly devastating

Derek Cianfrance adapts Denis Johnson’s novella into an elegiac portrait of early twentieth century America. The film follows a logger and railroad worker whose life unfolds against the vast, changing landscape of the American West. Cianfrance approaches the story...

TIFF ’25: Dead Man’s Wire

TIFF ’25: Dead Man’s Wire

Gus Van Sant revisits one of America’s strangest true crimes with Dead Man’s Wire, dramatizing Tony Kiritsis’ 1977 hostage spectacle. Bill Skarsgård plays Tony, a man pushed past his limits, who wires a real estate executive (Dacre Montgomery) to a shotgun and parades...

TIFF ’25: Dog 51 – Man versus Machine

TIFF ’25: Dog 51 – Man versus Machine

Cédric Jimenez’s Dog 51 plunges into a near future Paris run by ALMA, a predictive AI that decides who belongs where. When ALMA’s creator is assassinated, Salia (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Zem (Gilles Lellouche) are forced to investigate together, even though they...

TIFF ’25: Ballad of a Small Player

TIFF ’25: Ballad of a Small Player

Edward Berger adapts Lawrence Osborne’s novel into a sumptuous fever dream of gambling and self destruction. Colin Farrell plays Lord Doyle, a disgraced lawyer hiding in Macau, burning through borrowed money and false identities. Farrell captures Doyle’s bravado and...

TIFF ’25: Dead Lover

TIFF ’25: Dead Lover

Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover is as unsettling as it is tender, a punk gothic romance set in the margins of life and death. Glowicki directs and stars as a lonely gravedigger who unexpectedly finds love, only to have it ripped away. Refusing to let go, she claws at fate...