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A Private Life (2025) 81% A- EDIT “In my notes scrawled at a Toronto International Film Festival screening last fall are the words "only murders in l’arrondissement." And this darkly funny thriller does indeed feel like a French version of the popular TV series.” – Original Cin Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Well (2025) 44% B EDIT “The Well is a lesser entry in the Canadian post-apocalyptic sub-genre, but it features lovely dystopian production design and excellent performances, notably Sheila McCarthy playing against type as a quietly menacing despot.” – Original Cin Jan 22, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Fiennes is clearly having a ball as the thoughtful, eccentric doctor, while O’Connell turns in a psychotic villain for the ages, and Williams as Spike provides the heart and soul necessary to bring the whole package together.” – National Post Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% A- EDIT “Van Sant mines pre-Internet modern history for gold, with the tale of a 1977 kidnapping of mortgage company executive Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery). With a great cast (led by Bill Skarsgård) and loads of ’70s music, it’s a helluva ride.
” – Original Cin Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Mother and the Bear (2024) 89% A EDIT “Writer-director Johnny Ma’s quirky rom-com offers strong writing, solid characters, and a touch of Winnipeg weirdness. When a young Korean immigrant falls ill, her mom arrives to look after her, and maybe catfish her a husband.” – Original Cin Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% A- EDIT “The Plague is what remains if you strip most of the actual horror out of a horror movie, but keep the fear. A water polo summer camp turns into Lord of the Flies as tween boys jockey for social standing. Eerie and terrifying.” – Original Cin Dec 31, 2025 Full Review DJ Ahmet (2025) 92% B+ EDIT “In the coming-of-age sub-genre of youthful rebellion and forbidden love, DJ Ahmet from Macedonian writer/director Georgi M. Unkovski is about as mild as they come. But that doesn’t diminish its crowd-pleasing pleasures.” – Original Cin Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Merrily We Roll Along (2025) 95% A- EDIT “Though a Broadway flop in 1981, Sondheim’s musical has since gained a following and was a hit in a 2024 production, which has now been filmed for the screen. Choppy editing and a noisy audience can’t detract from great songs as delivered by a great cast.” – Original Cin Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% C- EDIT “Eternity feels like a ghostly version of Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life. Newly deceased Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) must choose her long-time second husband (Miles Teller) or her long-dead first (Callum Turner). Clever conceit, bungled in delivery.” – Original Cin Nov 27, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% A- EDIT “The sequel to last year’s Wicked was worth the 364-day wait. Glinda and Elphaba continue their separate paths, each with an unrequited or mismatched love. Darker and a little shorter than part one, it’s still a fitting conclusion to the tale.” – Original Cin Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Measures for a Funeral (2025) A- EDIT “Part ghost story, part history lesson, Bohdanowicz's film takes the bones of mid-century violin virtuoso Kathleen Parlow and wraps them in the modern story of a music researcher trying to track down a lost concerto. The result is triumphant and elegiac. 
” – Original Cin Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% A- EDIT “Clint Bentley has created a lyrical, humanist and quietly devastating story, based on the novel Train Dreams. Little happens, but also everything happens, creating a journey worth taking for its keening moments of grief and simple wisps of joy.
” – Original Cin Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Anniversary (2025) 66% D+ EDIT “Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler star in this apolitical thriller about a near-future where U.S. politics are shifting, threateningly but also maddeningly vaguely. It’s a hot-button story where all the buttons have gone cold. ” – Original Cin Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% B+ EDIT “Director Edward Berger and star Colin Farrell deliver the gripping story of a compulsive and not very successful gambler wafting around the gaming dens of Macau. It’s also a ghost story, but not in the scary way.” – Original Cin Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 77% B+ EDIT “Kiss of the Spider Woman remains an engrossing tale in this new century, and a lovely paean to old movies and the thrills of getting lost in them. There’s even a sly dig at people who talk during screenings.” – Original Cin Oct 15, 2025 Full Review The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue (2025) 81% A- EDIT “Workhorse Canadian director Barry Avrich chose the straight and narrow, and a taut 95 minutes, to tell the story of a retired Israeli general who saved his family when Hamas fighters attacked in 2023. It will educate and enrage, as it should.” – Original Cin Oct 3, 2025 Full Review London Calling (2025) 48% B EDIT “A solid followup from director Allan Ungar and star Josh Duhamel (2022’s Bandit), London Calling hilariously skews many tropes of old road/buddy movies, as a myopic hit man takes on a young acolyte. Great needle drops too, including the title track.
” – Original Cin Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Peak Everything (2025) 75% A- EDIT “Walking a fine, funny line between hope and despair, Peak Everything is about a Quebec dog kennel owner who falls for a tech support call centre worker. The latest from Anne Édmond is dark and sweet — but mostly sweet.” – Original Cin Sep 26, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% C- EDIT “Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie star as two attractive people who rent a magic vehicle that drives them to a variety of doors leading to their pasts. But “magic realism” isn’t enough to paper over lapses in logic and ham-fisted romantic messaging.” – Original Cin Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Toy Story and its cleverly names sequel, 1999's Toy Story 2, stand amid the great films of the 20th century not merely for their cutting-edge computer graphics but as kid-friendly entertainments.” – National Post Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% A EDIT “With a high body count but also some 1990s New York nostalgia, Darren Aronofky’s latest is a fun popcorn trip. Austin Butler stars as a washed-up ball player dogged by bad guys in search of treasure. Tonic as Bud the cat steals the show.” – Original Cin Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% A- EDIT “A great, grimy portrayal of the dark side of stardom, portraying someone who has been sucked into its maw, a fan who hitches his wagon to a rising music star. Entertaining and disturbing in equal measure.” – Original Cin Aug 27, 2025 Full Review East of Wall (2025) 95% A- EDIT “Writer-director Beecroft follows Tabatha, a larger-than-life momma bear raising and selling horses with the help of her rambunctious kids. The documentary elements are strong; the fictional bits less so. Sometimes reality is all you need.” – Original Cin Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% A EDIT “The Naked Gun is giddy as charged. There were a few moments where audience laughter drowned out the next joke, so I guess I may have to see it again.” – Original Cin Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% A- EDIT “Shanks' feature debut is an excellent psychological-body horror about a young couple who move to the country and into a haunted house. Or maybe it’s the woods near the house that are haunted? Or perhaps just one of the couple? Watch and learn.” – Original Cin Jul 31, 2025 Full Review
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