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‘Rabbit Trap’ Review: Wrestling with the Unknown in Both Sound and Silence

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‘Waltzing with Brando’ Review: Tia Carrere Embraces the Excess

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We've still got plenty of #TIFF50 reviews and interviews on their way, but in the meantime, here are our five favourite films that played at TIFF 2025!

✨ It Was Just as Accident
✨ Ky Nam Inn
✨ Left-Handed Girl
✨ Magellan
✨ Palestine 36

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TIFF 2025: ‘Lucky Lu’ Captures the Fragile Dream of Immigrant Survival - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut reviews the movie Lucky Lu, directed by Lloyd Lee Choi, starring Chang Chen, Fala Chen, and Carabelle Manna Wei.

‘Lucky Lu’ Review: Capturing the fragile dream of immigrant survival #TIFF50 ✨

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‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ Review: Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han's animated film inspires joy and curiosity #TIFF50 ✨

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TIFF 2025: Lav Diaz’s ‘Magellan’ and the Deconstruction of Conquerors and Myths  - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut reviews the movie Magellan directed by Lav Diaz, starring Gael García Bernal and Ângela Azevedo.

‘Magellan’ Review: Lav Diaz's Deconstruction of Conquerors and Myths #TIFF50 ✨

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TIFF 2025: ‘Renoir’ Examines a Coming of Age in the Shadow of Grief - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut reviews the Japanese movie Renoir, directed by Chie Hayakawa, starring Yui Suzuki, Lily Franky, and Hikari Ishida.

‘Renoir’ Review: Examining Coming-of-Age in the Shadow of Grief #TIFF50 ✨

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‘Hamlet’ Review: Aneil Karia Locks onto Riz Ahmed’s Performance and Doesn't Let Go #TIFF50 ✨

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‘Ky Nam Inn’ Review: Translating a Timeless Love Story to Vietnam #TIFF50

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‘100 Sunset’ Review: Showing the Duelling Views of a Toronto Tibetan Community #TIFF50

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'Shook' Review: An Ode to Family and Life

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Next week, the brightest stars of film descend up on Toronto ✨

Ahead of the festival, we've selected our most anticipated films of #TIFF50, including Rental Family, A Useful Ghost, It Was Just An Accident, Magellan, and more!

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Vice Is Broke Review: The Seduction of Cool

Eddie Huang's latest documentary hits MUBI this Friday

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Usman Riaz Made ‘The Glassworker’ for the Love of Art and “to take you to another world” - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut interviews director Usman Riaz about his animated movie The Glassworker, released in North America by Watermelon Pictures.

"My hero is and always will be Hayao Miyazaki," filmmaker Usman Riaz tells The Asian Cut.

Read our interview with Riaz and check out his feature directorial debut and Pakistan's first hand-drawn animated film, The Glassworker!

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‘Where Are You Really From’ Review: Elaine Hsieh Chou's latest novel, a collection of short stories, digs into the dark side of identity and desire 📖

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“It's becoming more and more where it's not leading the conversation,” Bernard White says of the racial specificity in his new film Shook. “These [characters] could be anybody.”

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In 🇨🇦 theatres today!

Freakier Friday Review: Manny Jacinto charms and swoons while director Nisha Ganatra gives fans of the original movie the nostalgia Gen X and millennials crave

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‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: Yeo Siew Huas latest lingers where it looks when considering a surveillance state

Read @paulenicola.bsky.social's review below!

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The Soft Power of Quiet Films: How Silence Speaks in Asian Storytelling - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut considers the meaning of silence in the movies Drive My Car, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and Columbus, directed by Kogonada.

"From the architectural stillness of 'Columbus' by Kogonada to the slow, aching introspection of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s 'Drive My Car' ... The power of these films lies not in volume, but in presence."

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'Great Absence' Review: Dissecting Memory, Estrangement and the Language of Silence

Read @paulenicola.bsky.social's ⭐⭐ ⭐ ⭐ below!

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'Daniela Forever' Review: Drowns Itself in Abstraction

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Keep your kids FAR away from Elephant Man

You’re Better Off Swiping Left on Celine Song’s ‘Materialists’ - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut reviews Materialists, written and directed by Celine and starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans.

'Materialists' Review: You're Better Off Swiping Left

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'Gundala' Fails to Replicate the MCU's Early Success - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut reviews the movie Gundala, directed by Joko Anwar, and starring Abimana Aryasatya and Bront Palarae.

‘Gundala’ Review: Fails to Replicate the MCU’s Early Success
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Roshan Sethi and Karan Soni on 'A Nice Indian Boy': "I wanted it to feel true more than anything else"

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According to Director Masayuki Suô, "The courage to take the first step," lies at the heart of his 1996 rom-com classic, 'Shall We Dance?'

Kusakari Tamiyo adds, “Just beyond that first step is where your dream waits.”

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Director Jerome Yoo Discusses His Journey from Short Films to His Debut Feature, ‘Mongrels’ - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut interviews director Jerome Yoo discussing his feature film debut, Mongrels, starring Jae-Hyun Kim, Da-Nu Nam, and Sein Jin.

"I wanted to write about what I knew best — sort of a tribute to my family’s time in Canada" — director Jerome Yoo shares his inspiration behind his feature debut 'Mongrels' and discusses his filmmaking journey to date

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'Missing Johnny': A Quiet, Yet Impactful, Character Study of Everyday Living - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut reviews the movie Missing Johnny, directed by Xi Huang and starring Lawrence Ko, Rima Zeidan, and Sean Huang.

"Missing Johnny" Review: A Quiet, Yet Impactful, Character Study of Everyday Living

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'Exhuma' Unearths More Than Bones - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut reviews the horror film, Exhuma, directed by Jang Jae-hyun and starring Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, and Lee Do-hyun.

‘Exhuma’ Review: Unearths More Than Bones

Riar Rizaldi’s Cryptic Indonesian Docufiction 'Monisme' Is a Fascinating Avant-Garde Take on the Conceptual Film - The Asian Cut The Asian Cut reviews the documentary-fiction film Monisme, directed by Riar Rizaldi, about Volcano Merapi.

'Monisme’ Review: A Fascinating Avant-Garde Take on the Conceptual Film