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Jason Thai

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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...

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...