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TIFF Film Review: Why So Blue, "Rogue Trooper"?
This epic sci-fi romp is action packed, and deeply British.
"Brave Wilderness" Host Mark Vins Talks his TIFF Debut
The Dispatch — Daily
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"Coconut Girl" Turns Childhood Shame Into Belonging
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"You & Me (& Chaz & Rodney)" Finds Tenderness in the Awkward Age
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Grief Goes Off Piste in "The Blue Diamond"
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"The Ticket" Turns a Lottery Win Into a Full-Contact Comedy
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"Finding JaMia's Spirit" Rewrites What We Tell Children About Death
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Double features
Two at a time
Film Review
The Long Road to Victory for 'Coyote vs. Acme'
Financial decisions cannot replace the beautiful nature of art.
TIFF 2026
TIFF Film Review: Wild, "Wild Horse Nine" Will Drag You Away
The latest from Martin McDonagh keeps his old formula, but Malkovich stuns.
TIFF 2026
TIFF Film Review: You Dirty, Rotten "Bucking Fastard"
What the buck?
Opinions
Why Shakespeare Sucks
How is it that the writer everyone despises reading has survived 400 years on the shelves?
TIFF 2026
TIFF Film Review: "Fjord" Wants You To Fight
The Palme d'Or winner is unabashedly political and deeply challenging.
TIFF 2026
TIFF Film Review: "Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo" Gets Lost in Translation
Legendary director Takashi Miike's latest in the "Bad Lieutenant" series takes a messy trip to Tokyo.
TIFF 2026
TIFF Film Review: "Alpha Gang" Comes Out On Top
This wacky alien invasion film may be a bit too absurd for some, but you've certainly seen nothing like it before.
TIFF 2026
TIFF Film Review: Not All Rotten In "Elsinore"
Andrew Scott commands the stage in this otherwise standard biopic.
Film Review
What "Memoir of a Snail" Says about Love, Loss, and Everything in Between.
"The worst cages are the ones we create for ourselves."
Elsewhere in the League
Everything, newest first
TRC Shorts Fest
"Coconut Girl" Turns Childhood Shame Into Belonging
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Ayesha Agarwal's "Coconut Girl" follows a young daughter of Indian immigrants through the sting of being different, tracing how the very thing that marks a child as an outsider can one day become a source of pride.
TRC Shorts Fest"You & Me (& Chaz & Rodney)" Finds Tenderness in the Awkward Age
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Lilly Lion's "You & Me (& Chaz & Rodney)" turns a first-hookup plan into a study of a shifting teenage friendship, tracing the pressures two girls face to take the next step.
TRC Shorts FestGrief Goes Off Piste in "The Blue Diamond"
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Sam Fox's "The Blue Diamond" turns the confrontation we never got to have with a toxic parent into an 80s apres-ski cult nightmare, where closure comes with a shot of blueberry schnapps.