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This week in movies!

On SENTIMENTAL VALUE 🏠

"gorgeous, insightful" - Johanna Schneller

"It’s complex. It’s human." - Karen Gordon

"Skarsgard headlines the film with profoundly amusing cocksure confidence" - @hertzbarry.bsky.social
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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Nov. 14 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for Sentimental Value, Come See Me in the Good Light, The Running Man, Now You See Me: Now You Don't, After All, and more!
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November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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On DIE MY LOVE 👶

"I could feel my arteries sizzling" - Johanna Schneller

"oscillates between lyrical observation and psychological suspense" - @peterhowellfilm.bsky.social

"It's exhausting." - @lizbraun.bsky.social
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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Nov. 7 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for Die, My Love; Train Dreams; Nuremberg; Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk; Predator Badlands; Love+War; and more!
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November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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"FNC feels like the festival that allows for films to have a little room to breathe and to be appreciated on a different level."

@intheseats.bsky.social reports from jury duty at Montreal's @nouveaucinema.bsky.social torontofilmcritics.com/features/ref...
Reflections from the Festival du Nouveau Cinema and the Joys of Changing Perspective - Toronto Film Critics Association
Reporting from the Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, where artistry comes first and cinephiles can encounter fresh discoveries from around the world.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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On NOUVELLE VAGUE 🎥

"unique and unforgettable" - @intheseats.bsky.social

"one of the best films of the year" - Marc Glassman

"a panting, heaving, flop-sweat-drenched and years-late ‘in memoriam’ tribute" - @hertzbarry.bsky.social

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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Oct. 31 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for Nouvelle Vague, Hedda, The Mastermind, Lesbian Space Princess, Urchin, The Witcher, Dracula, Koln 75, and more!
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October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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This week in movies!

Our critics revolt against the Boss, Bugonia inspires headscratches and laughter, and Blue Moon draws raves for some of the best performances this year. torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...
TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Oct. 24 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Bugonia, Hedda, It Was Just an Accident, Blue Moon, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, and more.
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October 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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☕️Double double! ☕️

Beginning in our December vote, we are splitting the Outstanding Performance in a Canadian Film award into two awards honouring lead and supporting performances.

Because Canada.
October 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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How does @viffest.bsky.social define itself in opposition to Toronto? By playing a mix of festival favourites and world premieres in an atmosphere of chill cinephilia, writes @filmfest.bsky.social torontofilmcritics.com/features/rep...
Reporting from VIFF 2025: Definitely Not Toronto - Toronto Film Critics Association
How does the Vancouver International Film Festival define itself in opposition to Toronto? By playing a mix of festival favourites and world premieres.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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This week in movies!

On FRANKENSTEIN 🧌

"del Toro has given us everything we could want in a Frankenstein movie" - @peterhowellfilm.bsky.social

"it’s one of his best films" - Jim Slotek

"an exquisite corpse" - @hertzbarry.bsky.social
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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Oct. 17 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for Frankenstein, Kiss of the Spider Woman, After the Hunt, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Good Fortune, The Twits, and more.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Peter Mettler’s retrospective at TIFF Cinematheque continues until October 26. His latest, While The Green Grass Grows, is showing for only the second time. I wrote a few words for @screenanarchy.bsky.social :
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Hey Toronto! WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS: A DIARY IN SEVEN PARTS, Peter Mettler's Magnum Opus, Screens in TIFF Retrospective
Fashioning unique and infinitely enticing diaristic, hybrid documentary-style adventures since the late 1970's, internationally acclaimed Canadian-Swiss filmmaker Peter Mettler can be regarded as cine...
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October 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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On A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE 🧨

"more terrifying than any horror movie" - Johanna Schneller

"expertly calibrates the tension" - @peterhowellfilm.bsky.social

"Rebecca Ferguson anchors the first act" - @patmullen.bsky.social

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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Oct. 10 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for A House of Dynamite, Roofman, Tron: Ares, John Candy: I Like Me, The Woman in Cabin 10, and more!
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October 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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On THE SMASHING MACHINE 💪

"Johnson does sell his character" - Jim Slotek

"extraordinary performances by Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt" - Marc Glassman

"stumbles through a series of life events" - @jacksonweaver.bsky.social

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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Oct. 3 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for The Smashing Machine, Anemone, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, Orwell: 2+2=5, Predators, Bone Lake, and more.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Battle? More like One Rave Review After Another!

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film leads this week's review round-up. torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...
TFCA Friday: Week of Sept. 26 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for One Battle After Another, Eleanor the Great, Plainclothes, Peak Everything, Plainclothes, Suspended Time, and more!
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September 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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This week in movies!

Member reviews include THE HISTORY OF SOUND, HIM, and A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY, plus lots of #TIFF50 postmortems. 🍿 torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...
TFCA Friday: Week of Sept. 19 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for The History of Sound, Him, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Swiped, Night of the Reaper, and reports from the Toronto International Film Festival.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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We held our annual pre-TIFF kick-off this year at Tha Phae Tavern, sponsored by TouchwoodPR. Check out some photos of our members and friends from the film scene at the event! torontofilmcritics.com/features/pho...
Photos from Critical Drinking 2025! - Toronto Film Critics Association
Photos from our pre-TIFF party at Tha Phae Tavern, sponsored by Touchwood PR.
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September 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Hamnet leads our best of the fest poll from @tiffnet.bsky.social as voted by TFCA members. #TIFF50 torontofilmcritics.com/features/mem...
Member Survey: TIFF 2025 – Best of the Fest - Toronto Film Critics Association
Hamnet leads our best of the fest poll from the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival as voted by TFCA members.
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September 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Alexander Mooney reports on Wavelengths, a space that allows filmmakers and cinephiles alike to take risks at @tiffnet.bsky.social #tiff50 torontofilmcritics.com/features/tif...
TIFF 2025: Dispatch from Wavelengths - Toronto Film Critics Association
Reporting on the feature films that screened in the Wavelengths programme of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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RIP Graham Greene: the Oscar nominated and Canadian Screen Award winning actor who appeared in films like Dances with Wolves, Seeds, and Maverick has passed away at age 73. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Graham Greene, ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor, Dies at 73
His role as Kicking Bird in the 1990 Kevin Costner film earned him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination.
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September 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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What films have the buzz heading into @tiffnet.bsky.social? 🐝

@peterhowellfilm.bsky.social polled 53 cinephiles, including several TFCA members, about their top film to see at #TIFF50. www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
These are the 53 TIFF films people who know movies want to see
The 25th edition of the Star’s annual “Chasing the Buzz” poll reveals the most anticipated films at the 50th anniversary edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
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August 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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TIFF at 50: From wild celebrity moments to films that put Toronto on the map, Brian D. Johnson looks back at milestones in @tiffnet.bsky.social history for Zoomer #TIFF50 everythingzoomer.com/arts-enterta...
The Little Festival That Could: Celebrating 50 Years of TIFF
As the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary in September, it seems...
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August 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This week's round-up is all about #TIFF50!

Brian D. Johnson & @peterhowellfilm.bsky.social look back on 50 years of the fest

@patmullen.bsky.social @filmfest.bsky.social @smallmind.bsky.social @bgos923.bsky.social & Rachel Ho pick 50 doc highlights

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TFCA Friday: Week of August 29 (aka TIFFmas Eve) - Toronto Film Critics Association
Previews and memories of the Toronto International Film Festival upon its 50th edition, plus reviews of The Roses, Splitsville, Lurker, and more!
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August 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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On HONEY DON'T ⛔️

"Qualley is deadpan and unflappable" - @lizbraun.bsky.social

"Qualley puts on a stellar performance" - Rachel Ho

"the cinematic equivalent of a trashy novella" - @intheseats.bsky.social
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TFCA Friday: Week of August 22 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for Honey Don't, Relay, Sweet Summer Pow Wow, Ne Zha II, Eden, The Balconettes, and previews and memories from TIFF.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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"There was no way we’d do it anywhere else. New York’s a character. It was never discussed, even in somewhere like Toronto."

Spike Lee & Denzel Washington tell @hertzbarry.bsky.social about reuniting in NYC for HIGHEST 2 LOWEST www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/ar...
What does Spike Lee need from Denzel Washington on their fifth go-round? ‘The key word is trust’
Washington and Lee speak with the Globe and Mail about authenticity, partnership and their new thriller, Highest 2 Lowest
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August 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Members @filmfest.bsky.social @smallmind.bsky.social @rachelwest.bsky.social & @patmullen.bsky.social look back at 50 years of TIFF with other local writers. #TIFF50
August 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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On RUSSIANS AT WAR 🪖

"a stark and stunning piece of cinema" - @intheseats.bsky.social

"an explicitly anti-war, anti-Moscow film" - @hertzbarry.bsky.social

"burrows deep into the psychology of war" - @patmullen.bsky.social

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TFCA Friday: Week of August 15 - Toronto Film Critics Association
Movie reviews for Russians at War, Nobody 2, Sweet Angel Baby, Highest 2 Lowest, Folktales, The Glassworker, Boys Go to Jupiter, and more.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Tomorrow night at the Paradise Theatre! With Chase Joynt and Amos Mac in person!
August 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM