There Were No Gods Left

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Erupcja

“With him, the earth doesn’t shake.”

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Notes from the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival

Reviews on Sacrifice, A Useful Ghost, and Project Y

Interview

Interview with Jack Serra on Generation Well

"I didn’t want the edit to feel seamless or conventional."

Dmovies

Generation Well

Sometimes it almost looks like Serra gives preferential treatment toward the difficult choice. And that’s why it works.

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Dog 51

Every day our dystopian future gets closer.

Baltic Cinema

Laguna

Grief can be foreboding like a lagoon; it can simultaneously and contrapuntally be a site for a baptismal-like transformation. Laguna understands this.

Palestinian Cinema

Palestine 36

Perhaps the most comprehensive and valuable narrative drama to survey the origins of Palestinian subjugation in the Levant.

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Magellan

“He was a motherfucker.”

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Just like fruit, the longer franchises persist, the greater chance they have of spoiling.

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Interview with Director Valentyn Vasyanovych & Producer Volodymyr Yatsenko on To the Victory!

We would like to say to the readers of this article: pay attention to your family, to your friends. There probably is not that much time left, so have fun.

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Aki

Aki is like a prayer ... beautiful, personal, and uncomfortable all at once.

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

To the Victory!

More hopeful than most of contemporary Ukrainian cinema.

Fritz on Fridays

Fritz on Fridays: Metropolis

Not all masterpieces are without their flaws. I’m sure the Sistine Chapel has its dents and dings, too.

Chinese Cinema(s)

Dongji Rescue

“We can’t stay down anymore!”

Chinese Cinema(s)

Ne Zha 2

The film event of the year.

Baltic Cinema

Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel

Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel resists the ordinary in favor of the idiosyncratic and renegade.

Screenlife

LifeHack

If Unfriended: Dark Web is Screenlife showing the Internet at its worst, LifeHack, while not unafraid of that darkness, is much more optimistic about its potential.

No Gods Left Exclusive

The Penguin Lessons

An "anti-fascism" historical film whose idea of resisting demagogues is limited to letter writing and asking the paramilitary enforcer agents to kindly return the civilians they kidnap.

Balkan Cinema

My Late Summer

Anja Matković is a revelation.

Fritz on Fridays

Fritz on Fridays: Four Around the Woman

As confusing as its title situation.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the most Kirbyesque the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever felt.

No Gods Left Exclusive

The Invisibles

There is something a little charming about [Andrew] Currie’s direction in its ability to maintain optimism and hope in Charlie’s darkest moments. Hopefully, that quality is contagious.

Korean Cinema

Dark Nuns

The theology of Dark Nuns stands apart from the usually strong Christological theologies that the exorcism genre has stood on for decades.

Baltic Cinema

Motorcycle Summer

The Latvian answer to The Graduate

James Gunn

Superman

[James Gunn is] the last director standing in the superhero factory with anything left in a vision of heroism to tap into.