Blue Heron, Glenrothan, Sink, The Smashing Machine | TIFF 2025
By Kent Turner September 12, 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.
Festivals
The Blue Trail/Calle Málaga | TIFF 2025
By Kent Turner September 11, 2025
You are never too old to undergo a rite of passage.
Hen | TIFF 2025
By Kent Turner September 9, 2025
A plucky (sorry) protagonist’s odyssey in Greece.
No Other Choice | TIFF 2025
By Kent Turner
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.
Messy, Queens of the Dead, Jimpa | Provincetown International Film Festival 2025
By Jeffery Berg July 8, 2025
A blunt, deliriously funny comedy emerged as the festival’s standout, while a drama with big-name actors proved dramatically inert.
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror; Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore; Everything Moves | Provincetown International Film Festival 2025
By Jeffery Berg
These documentaries stood out: one on a cult classic, another on a pioneering Oscar winner, and a third on an acclaimed local artist.
Happy Birthday | Tribeca Festival 2025
By Su Silver July 2, 2025
The film succeeds both as a sharp social critique and as a traditional Middle Eastern drama.
Horsegirls, Tow, Birthright | Tribeca Festival 2025
By Kristin Ciliberto
Each of these films thrives on compelling performances, including by Gretchen Mol and Rose Byrne.
Natchez, An Eye for an Eye | Tribeca Festival 2025
By Kent Turner June 26, 2025
Year after year, documentaries have tended to showcase the strongest works at Tribeca. Once again, this was true.