No Other Choice | NYFF 2025
By Kent Turner October 10, 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.
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Jay Kelly | NYFF 2025
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 4, 2025
With a sly undercurrent of darkness, Jay Kelly is more bitter than sweet. It’s far richer and more complex than you might expect.
Blue Moon | NYFF 2025
By Jeffery Berg
An exception to the rule that films limited mainly to one location can feel stagey and stifling.
Sirât | NYFF 2025
By Guillermo Lopez Meza
One of the year’s most intense and unclassifiable thrillers.
After the Hunt | NYFF 2025
By Jeffery Berg September 29, 2025
It’s exciting to see Julia Roberts tackle a complicated, prickly character after being pigeonholed with the trivial moniker “America’s Sweetheart” in the past.
The Tale of Silyan | TIFF 2025
By Kent Turner September 23, 2025
A compelling and moving portrait of a vanishing way of life in North Macedonia.
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.
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.