Most excited about Siratβs Oscar nomination for sound
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Former grave-digger, future Arby's owner. Journalist, Senior Film Critic at @thatshelf.com, running social @weathernetwork.bsky.social. Former ET Canada & Cineplex producer. @torontofilmcritics.bsky.social & AWFJ member, Rotten Tomatoes-approved.
Most excited about Siratβs Oscar nomination for sound
Congratulations to our latest #TFCAawards winners!
π Company3 Luminary Award: @filmswelike.bsky.social's Ron Mann
π Telefilm Canada Emerging Critic Award: Nirris Nagendrarajah
π Jay Scott Prize: Xiaodan He
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On 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE π
"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 might already be 2026βs best horror film, and its scariest monsters arenβt the infected.
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What are the best films of 2025? We polled our contributors to find out!
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On DUST BUNNY π°
"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 havenβt seen since the 80s" - @intheseats.bsky.social
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This week in movies!
On IS THIS THING ON? π€
"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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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 Iβve 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-MΓ‘ijΓ‘ 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
How will La NiΓ±a and a disrupted polar vortex influence Canadaβs winter? Find out with our 2026 #WinterForecast βοΈβ¬οΈ
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On BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER π
"Colin Farrell is superb" - @rachelwest.bsky.social
"Berger is a great stager of scenes" - Gilbert Seah
On GOOD FORTUNE π
"some kind of revelatory sad sack operetta" - Kim Hughes
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Totally messing with my Spotify Wrapped by listening to βOK Blue Jaysβ and Harry Nilssonβs βZombie Jamboreeβ 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
Uplifting, emotional, and deeply human, Kirk Jonesβ #ISwear is a crowd-pleasing festival standout you wonβt want to miss. #TIFF50
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I enjoyed A Sami Wedding but TIFFβs Primetime programme just doesnβt work awfj.org/blog/2025/09... #TIFF50
Oliver Laxeβs #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...
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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In a repeat of the first Saturday of TIFF last year, public tickets seem impossible to get so just two films for me:
The Lost Bus and Bad Apples.
Then a nap I guess π€·ββοΈ #TIFF50