Toronto! My pals at the Blue Mountain film festival are screening Damian McCann's Irish noir at the Fox Theatre, on Tuesday. You might find it of interest!

Most excited about Sirat’s Oscar nomination for sound

Ron Mann Wins Company 3 Luminary Award; Xiaodan He Awarded Jay Scott Prize - Toronto Film Critics Association Ron Mann wins Company 3 Luminary Award, Xiaodan He awarded Jay Scott Prize, and Nirris Nagendrarajah wins Telefilm Canada Emerging Critic Award.

Congratulations to our latest #TFCAawards winners!

🏆 Company3 Luminary Award: @filmswelike.bsky.social's Ron Mann
🏆 Telefilm Canada Emerging Critic Award: Nirris Nagendrarajah
🏆 Jay Scott Prize: Xiaodan He
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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for January 16 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for The Testament of Ann Lee, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Dead Man's Wire, Rip, The Stranger, and more!

On 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE 💀

"Ralph Fiennes gets to release the pig big-time" - Jim Slotek

"a solidly satisfying sequel" - @rachelwest.bsky.social

"shows how the familiar can quite easily be turned on its head" - @jacksonweaver.bsky.social

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review – Sets the Horror Bar for 2026 Bleak, brutal, and deeply human, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple proves the franchise’s rage virus still has teeth.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple might already be 2026’s best horror film, and its scariest monsters aren’t the infected.
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The Best Films of 2025: A Year in Review The best films of 2025 include One Battle After Another, Sinners, Sirat, Come See Me in the Good Light, BLKNWS, Kokuho, and more!

What are the best films of 2025? We polled our contributors to find out!
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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Dec. 12 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Peter Hujar's Day, Resurrection, Ella McCay, Dust Bunny, Wake Up Dead Man, Hamnet, The Tale of Silyan, and more.

On DUST BUNNY 🐰

"full of Freudian family weirdness" - @lizbraun.bsky.social

"crawls out from under the bed and straight into cult classic territory" - @rachelwest.bsky.social

"a slice of fantasy that we haven’t seen since the 80s" - @intheseats.bsky.social
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TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for Dec. 19 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Is This Thing On?, Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Spongebob Movie: The Search for Squarepants, Breakdown 1975, and more!

This week in movies!

On IS THIS THING ON? 🎤

"A solidly smart and sly adult drama" - @rachelwest.bsky.social

"a terrific, serious performance by Will Arnett" - Jim Slotek

"a raw, incandescent performance" - Brian D. Johnson

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Is This Thing On? Review: Will Arnett’s Career-Best Performance A solidly smart and sly adult drama about the demise of a marriage, Will Arnett gives what might be the best big-screen performance of his career.

Unflashy, emotionally precise, and anchored by a career-best performance from Will Arnett, Is This Thing On? quietly demands attention.
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Now that the TFCA vote is done and I’ve worked my way thru every prestigious film of the year, I am about to binge some absolute trash as a palate cleanser

Best Original Screenplay: Sinners

Runners-up: Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value #TFCAawards

Best Adapted Screenplay: One Battle After Another

Runners-up: Hamnet, No Other Choice #TFCAawards

Outstanding Lead Performance: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You; Ethan Hawkw, Blue Moon

Runners-up: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet; Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle; Michael B. Jordan, Sinners; Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent #TFCAawards

An absolutely phenomenal performance and very well deserved win

Best Supporting Performance in a Canadian Film: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Sweet Angel Baby

Runners-up: Charlotte Aubin, Montreal My Beautiful; Troy Kotsur,In Cold Light #TFCAawards

Well deserved win and great discussion in the room

Best First Feature: Blue Heron

Runners-up: Eephus, Sorry Baby #TFCAawards

Best Animated Feature: Endless Cookie

Runners-up: KPop Demon Hunters, Space Cadet #TFCAawards

One of my favourite films of the year

Canada's Winter Forecast: La Niña and the polar vortex set to deliver a truly Canadian winter - The Weather Network As winter approaches, the intriguing dance of La Niña and a disrupted polar vortex raises the tantalizing question: will these forces conspire to shape an unforgettable season across Canada? Read on to discover what the forecast holds for the months ahead!

How will La Niña and a disrupted polar vortex influence Canada’s winter? Find out with our 2026 #WinterForecast ❄️⬇️

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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.

On BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER 🃏

"Colin Farrell is superb" - @rachelwest.bsky.social

"Berger is a great stager of scenes" - Gilbert Seah

On GOOD FORTUNE 😇

"some kind of revelatory sad sack operetta" - Kim Hughes

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Totally messing with my Spotify Wrapped by listening to “OK Blue Jays” and Harry Nilsson’s “Zombie Jamboree” more than once today

Wildly colourful, spooky, and deliciously funny, #DustBunny is a throwback to the glory days of Midnight Madness. #TIFF50
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Director Ally Pankiw gives Sarah McLachlan and co. the recognition they deserve in Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery. Read @rachelwest.bsky.social's interview with her now #TIFF50
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Had a wonderful conversation with Eva Thomas on her #TIFF50 film Nika & Madison awfj.org/blog/2025/09...

P&I screenings really show you who knows how to dim the brightness on their phone and who does not #TIFF50

I Swear Review: TIFF 2025 Kirk Jones’ I Swear tells the inspiring true story of John Davidson with warmth, humour, and heart — a crowd-pleasing highlight of TIFF 2025.

Uplifting, emotional, and deeply human, Kirk Jones’ #ISwear is a crowd-pleasing festival standout you won’t want to miss. #TIFF50
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I enjoyed A Sami Wedding but TIFF’s Primetime programme just doesn’t work awfj.org/blog/2025/09... #TIFF50

Sirât Review: TIFF 2025 - That Shelf Sirat review: Oliver Laxe’s film is a breathtaking, gut-wrenching desert odyssey. Part road trip, part family drama, part rave-fueled fever dream, and entirely unmissable

Oliver Laxe’s #Sirat is a breathtaking, gut-wrenching desert odyssey. Part road trip, part family drama, part rave-fueled fever dream, and entirely unmissable. #TIFF50 thatshelf.com/sirat-review...

You Had To Be There Review: TIFF 2025 TIFF 2025 doc You Had To Be There revisits Toronto’s 1972 Godspell, the cast that shaped modern comedy, and their lasting legacy.

With heart and humour, You Had To Be There captures how a 1972 Toronto production of Godspell became the foundation for a generation of comedy legends. #TIFF2025
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