Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Review!
By Chris Knight
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The Testament of Ann Lee: A Visionary Religious Musical, For Better and Worse
ReviewJim SlotekThe Testament of Ann Lee, TIFF '25, Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet, Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Abbott, Matthew Beard, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Period piece, Musical, Drama
5 Questions and Answers from Jodie Foster about A Private Life (the Film, Not Her Own)
Original-Cin Q&A: Gus Van Sant on Dead Man's Wire and the Hostage-Taking That Inspired It
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekMovies based on hostage taking, Dead Man’s Wire, Director Gus Van Sant, Hostage taker Tony Kiritsis, Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Colman Domingo, Al Pacino, Van Sant films shot in Toronto, Scriptwriter Austin Kolodney, TIFF '25
The Choral: A Too-Gentle Nod to the Transformative Power of Art
ReviewJim SlotekThe Choral, TIFF '25, Alan Bennett, Nicholas Hytner, British film, Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Taylor Uttley, Amara Okereke, Mark Addy, WWI, Drama
Original-Cin Q&A: Sentimental Value Director Joaquim Trier on Communicating Beyond Language
By Karen Gordon
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InterviewJim SlotekSentimental Value, Joaquim Trier, Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard, TIFF '25, Cannes Grand Prix, Elle Fanning, Eskil Vogt, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Awards season, awards contender
Dust Bunny: Mads Mikkelsen Makes Assassin-as-Father-Figure Work in Eccentric Drama
The Secret Agent: 70s-Era Brazilian Thriller with an Absurdist Twist One of the Year’s Best
ReviewJim SlotekThe Secret Agent, TIFF '25, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, Alice Carvahlo, Maria Fernando Cândido, Brazilian, Drama, Thriller, Political thriller, Portuguese, Cannes
Eternity: Till Death Do Us Part? Not So Fast!
By Chris Knight
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Original-Cin Chat: Zacharias Kunuk on Trolls, The Fog Lady, and True Love in Wrong Husband
ReviewJim SlotekZacharias Kunuk, TIFF '25, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband), Canadian films, Canadian films at TIFF, Theresia Kappianaq, Haiden Angutimarik, Inuit directors, Drama, Fable, Indigenous storytelling
Original-Cin Q&A: Meadowlarks Director, Star on Unravelling a Fraught Indigenous Story
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekMeadowlarks, TIFF '25, Tasha Hubbard, Michael Greyeyes, Carmen Moore, Alex Rice, Michelle Thrush, Indigenous storytelling, Drama, Canadian, Based on a true story
Original-Cin Q&A: Sentimental Value’s Starry Cast Discusses their Acclaimed Drama
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekSentimental Value, Cannes, TIFF '25, Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, Drama, Family drama
It Was Just an Accident: A Profound Movie Asking Big Questions About Morality
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekIt Was Just an Accident, TIFF '25, Jafar Panahi, Vahid Mobasseri, Ebrahim Azizi, Marian Afshari, Ali Elyasmher, Majid Panahi, Hadis Pakbaten, Iranian film, Palme d’Or at Cannes
Blue Moon: More Bothered Than Bewitched
ReviewJim SlotekBlue Moon, TIFF '25, Richard Linklater, Robert Kaplow, Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Drama, Rodgers and Hart
Chat: Linklater, Hawke, Cannavale and Scott on Blue Moon and the Heartbreak of Lorenz Hart
InterviewJim SlotekBlue Moon, TIFF '25, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, True Story, Rodgers and Hart, Broadway
Ballad of a Small Player: Colin Farrell Is the Ghost in the Casino in this Gambling Thriller
By Chris Knight
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Good Fortune: Stacked Cast Elevates Ambling and Indebted Story
Roofman: When Truth Is Stranger, and Perhaps Less Chipper, Than Fiction
Peak Everything: It’s The End of the World (and the Fest) As We Know It
By Chris Knight
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Eleanor The Great: How We Grieve and the Stories We Tell Propels Gentle Indie Dramedy
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekTIFF '25, Eleanor The Great, Scarlett Johansson, June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Price, Jessica Hecht, Erin Kellyman, Drama, Comedy
