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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Sirât | NYFF 2025
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 4, 2025
One of the year’s most intense and unclassifiable thrillers.
Good Boy
By Paul Weissman October 2, 2025
Not since Benji has a dog actor—or dogter, if you will—managed such a range of emotion and vulnerability.
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5
By Wilda Williams
Raoul Peck skillfully blends a portrait of the British writer George Orwell with a chilling look at the autocratic movements emerging around the world.
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.
Happyend
By Andrew Plimpton September 12, 2025
This film overwhelms with its unexpected poignance, its truthfulness, and the imagination it uses to examine its teenage characters.
Dreams
By Guillermo Lopez Meza
Director Dag Johan Haugerud beautifully captures the anxiety and obsession that come with being in love for the first time.
Hen | TIFF 2025
By Kent Turner September 9, 2025
A plucky (sorry) protagonist’s odyssey in Greece.
Twinless
By Jeffery Berg September 5, 2025
The script is consistently funny and astutely written, where sorrow often collides with humor.