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Ethan Simmie

December 16, 2025

Review: ‘The Housemaid’ Fails To Construct A Clear Psychological Thriller

The plot of the new psychological thriller, The Housemaid, is simple enough: a young woman with a troubled past becomes a wealthy family’s li...

Ethan Simmie

November 21, 2025

Review: ‘Train Dreams’ Proves The Ordinary Can Be Beautiful In One Of The Year’s Best Films

Life has a funny way of slipping through our fingers. The mundanities of our everyday responsibilities pile upon us, inadvertently suffocatin...

Ethan Simmie

November 11, 2025

Review: ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Proves Movies Really Are Full Of Magic

It’s been quite famously said that we come to this place (the cinema) for magic. Well, Nicole Kidman has never been more right with the relea...

Ethan Simmie

October 6, 2025

‘Anemone’ Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Emerges from Retirement to Outshine His Son’s Directorial Debut

There’s no mistaking Daniel Day-Lewis. The first time we see him in Anemone is from the back. Yet, he immediately permeates his surroundings—...

Ethan Simmie

September 26, 2025

Review: ‘One Battle After Another’ is Another Masterpiece from Paul Thomas Anderson

Revolutionaries come in all different shapes, sizes, and attitudes. The revolutionaries in One Battle After Another prove just that. Before h...

Ethan Simmie

September 14, 2025

TIFF 2025 Colorful ‘Erupjca’ Explodes With Energy and Romance in Charli XCX’s Acting Debut

You could almost talk about Charli XCX’s debut film Erupjca exclusively using song titles from her iconic album “brat.” “Everything is romant...

Ethan Simmie

September 14, 2025

TIFF 2025 ‘Charlie Harper’ Brings Heartbreak and Honesty To The Big Screen In This Romantic Dramedy

Falling in love in your twenties is generally full of whimsy, laughter, and a starry-eyed vision of the endless possibilities that the future...

Ethan Simmie

September 9, 2025

TIFF 2025 ‘Poetic License’ Delivers A Fantastically Funny Directorial Debut for Maude Apatow

Movies like Poetic License are simultaneously easy to come by and in short supply–a film made by the child of a Hollywood icon (in this case,...

Ethan Simmie

September 4, 2025

Review: 'Splitsville' Resurrects Original Romantic Comedies

“Don’t you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not.” is the shared delirium, or moral compass,...

Lists

September 1, 2025

TIFF 2025 Curtain Raiser

Fall festival season is underway, with premieres of some of the biggest titles of 2025. This year marks the 50th Toronto International Film F...

Essays

July 15, 2025

‘Inception’s 15th Anniversary: A Case For Nolan’s Best Film

“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling,” mutters Eames, played by Tom Hardy, as he defends his dream-infiltrating team from...

Lists

July 1, 2025

10 Must-See Movies In July

2025 has been a mixed bag for cinema at best–the highs of titles like Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, Sinners, and most recently 28 ...

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