Atonement | TIFF 2026
The script offers Hiam Abbass an emotionally demanding role—a Role with a capital R. Her performance ranks among the best of the year.
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The Best Films of 2025
If you know where to look, there were plenty of good films in 2025. (Maybe you’ll find new discoveries here.)
Rental Family
An earnest, though innocuous, feel-good movie for the armchair traveler.
No Other Choice | NYFF 2025
Director Park Chan-wook takes as his blueprint Donald E Westlake’s lean and mean bloodbath The Ax (1997) and makes the macabre and cynical tale his own.
The Tale of Silyan | TIFF 2025
A compelling and moving portrait of a vanishing way of life in North Macedonia.
The Testament of Ann Lee | TIFF 2025
Director Mona Fastvold combines two “unforgiving” genres—the biopic and the musical—and focuses on a relatively unknown historical figure: the founder of the Shaker movement.
Blue Heron, Glenrothan, Sink, The Smashing Machine | TIFF 2025
With more than 200 feature films playing out over 11 days, and depending on the viewer’s stamina, there are countless variations of what to see.
The Blue Trail/Calle Málaga | TIFF 2025
You are never too old to undergo a rite of passage.
Hen | TIFF 2025
A plucky (sorry) protagonist’s odyssey in Greece.