The Smashing Machine: Johnson and Blunt are positively smashing
The Smashing Machine is an utterly remarkable achievement. Safdie manages to find the very best in Johnson and Blunt and, in doing so, creating one of the year’s most compelling dramas.
Category: TIFF ’25
Powwow People’s Sky Hopinka invites everyone to the party
In this 1on1, we speak to Hopinka about balancing tradition with change and creating inclusive spaces.
Rise of the Raven’s cast tell us about bringing bloody history to life
In this 1on1, we speak to the cast and producer of Rise of the Raven as they tell us about bringing history to life and elevating strong women.
Disc’s Blake Winston Rice gets messy about intimacy
In this 1on1, we speak to director Blake Winston Rice about the nature of intimacy and what makes sex so awkward to talk about.
TIFF ’25: Eternity – Till Death do we decide
The concept itself is very fun and explored pretty well. It delivers information about this world pretty efficiently allowing us to enjoy the quirks and irony of such a world.
TIFF ’25: The Napa Boys – Gleefully unhinged
The Napa Boys is less about plot than about comic invention, a wine soaked farce that skewers ego, nostalgia, and the ridiculousness of giving heroes multiple sequels.
TIFF ’25: The President’s Cake – Fascism and Children
The President’s Cake has an amazing child performance from Baneen Ahmed Nayyef, who plays this character with command and realistic mannerisms.
TIFF ’25: Monkey in a Cage
Monkey in a Cage refuses easy binaries: predator and prey shift roles as characters navigate corruption, poverty, and survival.
TIFF ’25: Train Dreams – Quietly devastating
Train Dreams resists melodrama, instead crafting a meditative film about memory, resilience, and the ghosts that linger in ordinary lives. It is earthy, intimate, and quietly devastating.
TIFF ’25: Degrassi: Whatever It Takes
Degrassi: Whatever It Takes is a masterful documentary without an opinion that quietly exposes 35 years of child exploitation.
TIFF ’25: Dog 51 – Man versus Machine
Dog 51 moves with the pacing of a thriller but lingers on questions of justice and autonomy: who decides right from wrong when machines govern human lives?
TIFF ’25: The Man In My Basement
I suppose this film is meant to make the viewer feel distressed because I not only felt sick to my stomach as I watched, but also entirely confused.
TIFF ’25: Silent Friend – Isolation & Nature
Silent Friend is a quietly ambitious film about three different people at three different points...