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Jason Thai

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TIFF ’25: Easy’s Waltz – Shaggy and soulful

TIFF ’25: Easy’s Waltz – Shaggy and soulful

Nic Pizzolatto, best known for creating True Detective, brings his moody sensibilities to the big screen with Easy’s Waltz. Vince Vaughn stars as Easy, a washed up Vegas crooner scraping for one last shot at relevance. Al Pacino plays his slippery mentor, Mickey,...

TIFF ’25: Three Goodbyes

TIFF ’25: Three Goodbyes

Isabel Coixet’s Three Goodbyes adapts Michela Murgia’s novel, 'Tre ciotole' into a cinematic elegy. Alba Rohrwacher stars as Marta, a teacher unraveling after the collapse of a long relationship. Elio Germano plays Antonio, her estranged partner, whose presence...

TIFF ’25: Fuck My Son!

TIFF ’25: Fuck My Son!

Todd Rohal returns to Midnight Madness with one of the year’s most outrageous titles, Fuck My Son!. The film is pure provocation, a riot of bad taste and sharp satire. Rohal doesn’t just chase shock value, though the film gleefully courts offense; he uses absurdity to...

TIFF ’25: 100 Sunset

TIFF ’25: 100 Sunset

Kunsang Kyirong’s debut 100 Sunset is a quiet marvel, set in Toronto’s Little Tibet community. It follows Kunsel, played with delicate restraint by Tenzin Kunsel, a reserved teenager who observes her world through the lens of a camcorder. When she befriends Passang...

TIFF ’25: The Ugly – Stripping away the spectacle

TIFF ’25: The Ugly – Stripping away the spectacle

Yeon Sang ho’s The Ugly strips away spectacle to deliver a slow burning mystery rooted in grief and prejudice. Park Jeong-min carries the film in dual roles, portraying both the son who discovers his mother’s remains decades later and the father who lived through her...

TIFF ’25: Rental Family

TIFF ’25: Rental Family

Hikari’s Rental Family explores Japan’s real life rent a relative industry through the eyes of Philip, a lonely actor in Tokyo played by Brendan Fraser. Hired to play husbands, fathers, and sons for clients in need, Philip finds himself blurring the line between...

TIFF ’25: Obsession

TIFF ’25: Obsession

Curry Barker’s Obsession begins like a love story and ends as a nightmare. Michael Johnston plays Bear, a timid music store clerk who makes a supernatural wish for his longtime crush, Nikki (Inde Navarrette), to fall in love with him. At first, the spell seems...