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TIFF 2025 | Movie Review: "Sirat" Rides The Highway to Hell In Oliver Laxe's Shocking Fourth Feature
TIFF 2025 | Movie Review: "Sirat" Rides The Highway to Hell In Oliver Laxe's Shocking Fourth Feature

“…[Oliver] Laxe lulls you into a trance thanks to composer Kangding Ray’s electro-heavy score that feels like having your brain flossed.”

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Festival Coverage, Luca Mehta, MoviesLuca MehtaSeptember 4, 2025tiff, tiff 2025, tiff50, movie reviewComment
TIFF 2025 | Festival Hidden Gems: 6 Must-See World Premieres & Why They Deserve A Spot On Your Watch List
TIFF 2025 | Festival Hidden Gems: 6 Must-See World Premieres & Why They Deserve A Spot On Your Watch List

“… these are the World Premiere films that could surprise you, entertain you, and spark conversation.”

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Festival Coverage, Thomas Stoneham-JudgeThomas Stoneham-JudgeSeptember 3, 2025tiff, tiff 2025, tiff50Comment
Spike Lee Retrospective: "25th Hour" - Spike Lee's Post-9/11 New York Masterpiece
Spike Lee Retrospective: "25th Hour" - Spike Lee's Post-9/11 New York Masterpiece

“25th Hour is one of Spike Lee's most moving films. It's thematically complex and still holds up 23 years later.”

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Matt Pyne, EditorialMatt PyneAugust 30, 2025spike lee retrospective, 25th hourComment
Fantasia 2025 | Movie Review: "Burning" And The Art Of Captivating Storytelling
Fantasia 2025 | Movie Review: "Burning" And The Art Of Captivating Storytelling

“As an exercise in storytelling, Burning succeeds spectacularly.  Each of the stories is compelling, and the filmmaking in each heightens the horrors that the family is facing.”

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Matthew SimpsonAugust 26, 2025Comment
Spike Lee Retrospective: "Inside Man"
Spike Lee Retrospective: "Inside Man"

“It might be the least Spike Lee Spike Lee film, but he and cinematographer Matthew Libatique make sure that it is still very much a Spike Lee film at least in tone and feel.”

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Matthew Simpson, EditorialMatthew SimpsonAugust 26, 2025inside man, spike lee, spike lee retrospectiveComment
Spike Lee Retrospective: "Summer of Sam"
Spike Lee Retrospective: "Summer of Sam"

“…Lee wants us considering the ripple effects that these cold-blooded killings have on a hyper-proud, hyper-macho and fiercely tight-knit community…”

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Taylor Beaumont, EditorialTaylor BeaumontAugust 26, 2025spike lee, spike lee retrospective, summer of samComment
Spike Lee Retrospective: Keep ‘Em Laughing - "Bamboozled" at 25
Spike Lee Retrospective: Keep ‘Em Laughing - "Bamboozled" at 25

“Bamboozled doesn’t work today because its satire was strictly true in 2000. It works because it’s still true today.”

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Todd Pengelly, EditorialTodd PengellyAugust 26, 2025spike lee, spike lee retrospectiveComment
Movie Review: “Lurker"; A Timely Influencer Commentary That We Need Right Now
Movie Review: “Lurker"; A Timely Influencer Commentary That We Need Right Now

“The film leaves you in such a disquieting state, allowing for the chance to really reflect on and ponder so many of the key ideas and themes here through such a personal lens. I know I haven’t been able to shake the film for weeks.”

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Mitchell Davey, MoviesMitchell DaveyAugust 22, 2025lurker, movie review, theodore pellerin, archie madekweComment
Spike Lee Retrospective: "Crooklyn" & The Manifestation of Urban Fantasy
Spike Lee Retrospective: "Crooklyn" & The Manifestation of Urban Fantasy

“The details are so particular and unique, ‘Crooklyn’ becomes immediately and infectiously transportive; it’s a step back in time in film-form.”

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Chris Richmond, EditorialChris RichmondAugust 20, 2025crooklyn, spike lee retrospective, spike leeComment
Movie Review: Luca's Non-Spoiler Take On "Weapons"
Movie Review: Luca's Non-Spoiler Take On "Weapons"
Luca Mehta, MoviesLuca MehtaAugust 7, 2025weapons, movie review, 10 out of 12, 4 stars Comment
Fantasia 2025 | Movie Review: A Familiar Narrative Holds "The Bearded Girl" Back
Fantasia 2025 | Movie Review: A Familiar Narrative Holds "The Bearded Girl" Back

“The Bearded Girl is a fine little film with a great central performance.”

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Matthew Simpson, Movies, Festival CoverageMatthew SimpsonJuly 31, 2025fantasia, fantasia 2025, movie review, the bearded girl, 6 out of 12, 2.5 starsComment
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