Train Dreams is coming to Netflix, but you'll want to see this one in a theatre. A beaut. Very Malickian.

THERE ARE NO WORDS and MONTREAL, MY BEAUTIFUL lead the winners at Toronto's Reel Asian Int'l Film Festival povmagazine.com/there-are-no...

Debuting Nov. 7 on Disney+, LOVE+WAR is a gripping new film from Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who find their best subject yet in conflict photographer Lynsey Addario povmagazine.com/lovewar-revi...

Fantastic FYC day with double bill of IS THIS THING ON? and MARTY SUPREME. Santa is gonna be busy Christmas Day! 🏓

Helen Mirren to receive Cecil B. DeMille award from Golden Globes this year. variety.com/2025/film/aw...

"Ancient DNA is an incredibly powerful time machine now, but we don’t really understand how it works." Niobe Thompson tells us about Emmy-winning documentary on biologist Eske Willerslev and breakthrough research into ancient DNA. povmagazine.com/how-hunt-for...

Really impressed by Switzerland's Oscar submission LATE SHIFT. Plays a lot like THE PITT with its take on the personal toll of the nursing shortage as one woman holds down the fort in her short-staffed ward. Great performance by Leonie Benesch (THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE) carries pretty much every frame.

This year's WindsorFilmFest again showed how the festival is carving its place in the Canadian scene by giving more space to Canadian films. Here's our look at this year's competition: povmagazine.com/docs-stand-o...

People say 2025 is an off year for movies, but Hedda and Pillion let us write about smelling feet and licking boots in the same week. Cinema!

So much wonderful bird clucking.

This week in movies! 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 torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

As The Nature of Things enters its 65th season with new hosts and a renewed push for international coproductions, Canadian filmmakers are adjusting to a shifting landscape. @adambenzine.bsky.social does a deep dive on the marquee series for our latest issue. povmagazine.com/the-nature-o...

Love the full page FYC ad in Variety for the dog in Good Boy. But where is Bing's campaign??? 🐕

Coexistence My Ass, one of the better documentaries this year, is back in town this weekend. Not a proper theatrical run--what docs are getting those here these days?--but a highlight in Toronto's increasingly numerous field of one-off screenings.

The hamster wheel of fall festival season keeps on twirling! We'll catch up one day.

Loved hearing how Hedda's Nina Hoss (who gives the best performance of the year) found inspiration for her character in Shere Hite and imagined The Hite Report as the research that Eileen never got to publish.

Finally caught up with LIFE OF CHUCK: What a bullshit movie. 🤮🤮 But probably better than watching baseball.

This is actually a pretty great list!

What is the point of the Gotham Awards if they're all in on a $170 million movie? That's $135 million over the previous eligibility cap.🤷‍♂️ www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2025-g...

The artist in this movie is so exhausting, and I enjoyed how the film matches his chaotic pace as money slips through his fingers making a career as a two-bit Banksy.

Drama MONTREAL, MY BEAUTIFUL wins $25,000 WIFF Prize in Canadian Film at Windsor Film Fest povmagazine.com/montreal-my-...

Yes it is!

Screening at festivals including @WindsorFilmFest & @reelasian, THERE ARE NO WORDS is a deeply personal work from Min Sook Lee. @filmfest.bsky.social chats with the director about sharing her family's story. povmagazine.com/min-sook-lee...

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...

After the misfire of Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos rebounds with the delightfully strange Bugonia.

Finally saw Pillion and I was not expecting it to be so sweet. Loved it! 💯

Nothing like stressing out to get a review out when you have five publicists emailing you about the film, publishing a legitimately positive review that tries to be sensitive to language, and then seeing the filmmaker immediately take to facebook to dunk on it. Fall festival season, summarized.

The gentle clippity-clops of three mild-mannered donkeys fuel the offbeat 'perfectly a strangeness.' Catch it this week at Planet in Focus. povmagazine.com/alison-mcalp...

Insert joke about mental health and covering fall festival season

Encore viewing of Come See Me in the Good Light tonight. For all the documentaries I've seen the past decade, few films are as beautifully done as this one. 💯 "Anyone who thinks poetry is frivolous / has never needed someone to tell them / something unspeakably hard, beautifully." -Andrea Gibson

Friendly reminder that IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is *terrible* as it rolls into theatres amid incomprehensible jazz handing. It's the hokiest everything-but-the-kitchen-sink eye-roller you'll see this year. I haaaate that the last scene is so good though. thatshelf.com/it-was-just-...

Sad to see that a film as great as Twinless couldn't get theatrical in Canada, or any sort of festival play, but it's finally on VOD on Prime. www.primevideo.com/detail/0TDQ0...

Big thanks to Rachel for taking another baseball doc for the team.

Chatting Hal & Harper w/ Cooper Raiff and Lili Reinhart. 📺

Nothing like a documentary that treats documentary as a "lesser than" art form, or one that isn't even worth talking about. 🤷

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 torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

Jennifer Lopez is outstanding in Kiss of the Spider Woman, as is breakout Tonatiuh in performance as the ultimate actressexual. 🕷

Get your first look at the best film of 2025 as Apple releases the trailer for Come See Me in the Good Light, and get ready for all the feels.

Chatting with Julia Roberts and Luca Guadagnino about their twisty new film After the Hunt. It'll make you uncomfortable but will inspire some great post-screening discussions.

Really? The Critics Choice Documentary Awards *shut out* Come See Me in the Good Light? That is brutal. Best doc of the year. The Peewee Herman nominated for Best Documentary Feature isn't even a feature... www.criticschoice.com/2025/10/14/n...

As THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR chills with its use of surveillance video and 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA makes harrowing use of body-cams, @filmfest.bsky.social looks at a new era of found footage in an essay now online from our spring issue. povmagazine.com/caught-live-...

Oscar hopefuls on @docnycfest.bsky.social's Short List include COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT, THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR, and MY MOM JAYNE povmagazine.com/doc-nyc-anno...

😭😭😭 Marvin's Room co-star Meryl Streep celebrates the genius of Diane Keaton. youtu.be/y70sAfIF8Lg?...

Aw, Diane Keaton was one of the best. 😢 people.com/diane-keaton...

This week in movies! 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 torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

"John is the spirit of Canada." Ryan Reynolds and Colin Hanks talk about the enduring power of a Canadian icon as JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME comes to Prime Video after opening #TIFF50. povmagazine.com/the-john-can...

Full trailer for Hamnet: TIFF People's Choice winner and your next Oscar winner. 💯 youtu.be/xYcgQMxQwmk

“You don’t really see a lot of exhibitions on queer Black people...The legacy is not honoured in the way it should be. I’m hoping this film helps.” Alison Duke tells us about her new documentary MICHELLE ROSS: UNKNOWN ICON about the late drag artist povmagazine.com/michelle-ros...

"I don’t want to put too fine a point on it, but there is grief expressed in the film, and sometimes when somebody expresses grief, I feel like the audience needs a moment." Alan Zweig discusses his new film LOVE, HAROLD and his foray into the podcasting world. povmagazine.com/alan-zweig-h...

Doc Soup kicks off tomorrow at @hotdocs.bsky.social with THE LIBRARIANS. We chatted with director Kim A. Snyder about capturing the stories of these first responders in America's culture wars. povmagazine.com/how-the-libr...