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TIFF 2023: The Royal Hotel Review

by Courtney Small | September 11, 2023

Director Kitty Green's thriller follows two friends forced to deal with increasingly rowdy and sexist male customers after taking a job bartending in a remote mining town.

TIFF 2023: Seagrass Review

by Emma Badame | September 10, 2023

Meredith Hama-Brown’s insight and instinct for storytelling and her grasp on emotional truth and the power of silence make #Seagrass a truly impressive feature debut.

TIFF 2023: Anatomy of a Fall Review

by Barbara Goslawski | September 9, 2023

In Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet expertly blows apart the murder mystery genre to reveal the human drama at its core.

TIFF 2023: We Grown Now Review

by Courtney Small | September 8, 2023

We Grown Now offers a moving portrait of friendship and boyhood in a community nearing its end. #TIFF23

We Really Like Her: Deep Impact

by We Really Like Her | August 10, 2023

We Really Like Her's Emily Gagne & Danita Steinberg take us behind their August pick, Deep Impact! Celebrate Mimi Leder's classic disaster epic with them on Aug. 16.

Blue Jean Review

by Courtney Small | June 23, 2023

Blue Jean follows a closeted teacher who attempted to navigate work and community in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain.

Beyond Paper Review

by Courtney Small | June 9, 2023

Oana Suteu Khintirian's new documentary reflects on the value of the written word and the sense of knowledge and culture that is lost through digitization.

Hot Docs 2023: Coven Review

by Emma Badame | May 9, 2023

Documentary fans will be truly entranced by Canadian filmmaker Rama Rau's latest — a captivating tale of three women re-claiming and channelling their innate and natural power.

Dead Ringers Review: Rachel Weisz Stuns, It’s Everything Else That Doesn’t

by Mariana Delgado | April 17, 2023

What could’ve been a successful reinvention feels shallow and misdirected.

A Thousand and One Review

by Courtney Small | March 30, 2023

A Thousand and One finds Teyana Taylor delivering a performance for the ages as a mother trying to give her son a better life in a changing New York.

Director Lizzie Borden on Censorship, Community and the Movie She’s Kept in the Closet for Over 40 Years

by Emily Gagne | March 1, 2023

"If you weren't scared, you would just be on a flat line." Emily Gagne talks with director Lizzie Borden ahead of Regrouping's long-overdue Canadian premiere.