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September 14, 2025 · by Ethan Simmie

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...

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September 14, 2025 · by Jake Fittipaldi

TIFF 2025 ‘Frankenstein’ Review: Del Toro Gives Mary Shelley’s Story the Screen It Deserves

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is not just another adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. It is, without hesitation, the finest ever ...

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September 14, 2025 · by Ethan Dayton

TIFF 2025: ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Is Everything We Wanted ‘Nightbitch’ To Be

The only people who know how hard it is to be a mom are mothers. Many movies have tried to capture the anxiety and difficulties motherhood br...

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September 12, 2025 · by Nandita Joshi

TIFF 2025 'Hamnet' Review: Chloé Zhao's Latest is Among the Year's Best

If there is one thing we, as humans, know for certain, it is that death is inescapable, acting as a permanent overcast even in our brightest ...

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September 11, 2025 · by Jake Fittipaldi

TIFF 2025 ‘The Son and the Sea’ Finds Vulnerability on the Scottish Coast

From the first frame, The Son and the Sea unfolds like sunlight flickering over restless waters. Stroma Cairns’ camera roams the Scottish coa...

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September 11, 2025 · by Kam Ryan

TIFF 2025 Bad Apples Premiere was an Unsettling Debut that Interrogates Our Complicity

A protest outside the theater accompanied the world premiere of Bad Apples at TIFF 2025. I wandered through it before taking my seat, donning...

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September 10, 2025 · by Sara Ciplickas

TIFF 2025: Squibb and Johansson Craft a Hilarious, Heartfelt Look at Grief in 'Eleanor the Great'

An accidental common theme of my coverage at TIFF includes the exploration of grief. Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, Eleanor the Grea...

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September 9, 2025 · by Ethan Simmie

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,...

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September 8, 2025 · by Nandita Joshi

TIFF 2025 'Bayaan' Joins a Familiar, Painful Chorus of Films on Violence Against Women

No matter where you look in the world, women are subjected to varying degrees of marginalization. Whether it be inequity within the workplace...

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September 8, 2025 · by Sara Ciplickas

TIFF 2025 'Hedda' Premieres with New Meaning, Magnetic Energy, and Delicious Sexual Tension

With a fiery premiere at TIFF 2025, Hedda finally makes her theatrical debut after spending years on the stage. Inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s pl...

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September 8, 2025 · by Jake Fittipaldi

‘Rabbit Trap’ Review: Folk Horror With More Craft Than Clarity

There’s something funny about Rabbit Trap: it might be one of the few horror films I’d recommend watching at home through headphones. Not bec...

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September 7, 2025 · by Amritpal Rai

Review: 'The Conjuring: Last Rites' is a Sincere, Jumbled End to a Prolonged Franchise

The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) would sound like a non-cynical, fitting end to the nine-film franchise that revolves around the prolific gho...

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