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Blue Moon, Eleanor the Great, If I had Legs I’d Kick You | TIFF50 Round-up
Catch up on Day 1’s reviews from our team on the ground at TIFF50
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Film Reviews from a spectrum of opinions and perspectives
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Shorts Program 01 Highlights @ TIFF 2025
Jazz Infernal First and foremost, let me get it out of the way that I just adore jazz music, so this short always had a bit of a bias in my books. Nevertheless! Bias put aside, this is still an undoubtedly cinematic jazz journey (giving "Whiplash" during certain
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If I Had Legs I Would Kick You | TIFF50
In the performance of her career, Rose Byrne encapsulates the hardships and mental turmoil caregivers around the world can relate to.
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Hamlet | TIFF 50
“And the Academy Award for Best Actor goes to…Riz Ahmed, Hamlet!”
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Blue Moon: Hart-break | TIFF 50
The eternal heartbreak of the flamboyant Bi+ man, cursed to be misunderstood by the world, and left in his troubles alone.
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🇬🇧🇪🇸Little Amélie or The Character of Rain | TIFF 50
Never since Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro (1988) have I had the pleasure of watching a film that approaches the theme of childhood as lovingly and efficiently as Little Amélie or The Character of Rain (2025).
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The Cut: Sleeper Punch
One of the most intense and surprising psychological thrillers I've witnessed to this year, Orlando Bloom puts in the performance of his career with a stacked cast and a categorically terrifying script.
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The Baltimorons: Love is One Dental Cavity Away
The Baltimorons is a fresh film, maybe the first improv based film that’s actually good, and it wields a startling emphasis on character conflict behind the public affairs of its loser leads.
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Pools: Floatation Device Not Included
There's something real here under its boozy convos between gasps of air, in being lost inside a shame spiral, but when it comes to exploring it? Not as such; these characters gesture at depth, but Pools has little to give besides what it can tease out of its performances.
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Caught Stealing: Kind of gorgeous, actually.
Though this isn't anywhere near a calm film, Butler's unexpectedly layered performance shone highlights and meaning into what could have been a very old format of filmmaking.
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Lurker: They Long To Be (Close To You)
The ambiguity the film leads with is a provocation, with a point; it's a freaky decomposition of not the business or psychosis of fame, but the spirit of its artistry, the chase, the race. Lurker is star-screwer cinema, BRAT but red, a dark oblivion of content creatives and their very many vices.
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Nobody 2: Nobody Packs a Punch like Bob Odenkirk
A family vacation, generational violence, and being in way over your head (again) - "a great conclusion to a summer full of great action blockbusters."