Toronto 2025 - The Film Verdict

Our Father

Sep 9, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto 2025

Addiction and religion clash in ‘Our Father’, a powerful drama about getting clean under the eye of God.

German director Joscha Bongard on Influencer Families and His Satirical Drama Babystar

Sep 9, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto 2025

German director Joscha Bongard discusses the commodification of intimacy and the influencer industry as his debut fiction feature ‘Babystar’ bowed in Toronto.

Good Boy

Sep 9, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto 2025

‘Good Boy’ delivers a delightfully strange tale about the limits of parenthood.

Winter of the Crow

Sep 8, 2025 | Festivals, Featured, Toronto 2025

Lesley Manville sees history unfold in front of her eyes in the uneven Cold War thriller ‘Winter of the Crow.’

Whitetail

Sep 8, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto 2025

A patience-testing, slow-burn drama about trauma and grief that offers little reward for sticking it out.

The Currents

Sep 7, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto 2025

The tensions of motherhood overflow in the existential, visually expressive drama ‘The Currents’.

To the Victory!

Sep 6, 2025 | Festivals, Featured, Toronto 2025

Valentyn Vasyanovych imagines post-war Ukraine with both hope and fear in the compellingly meta drama, ‘To the Victory!’

Egghead Republic

Sep 6, 2025 | Festivals, Featured, Toronto 2025

Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja take on edgelord media with an inventively comic touch in ‘Egghead Republic’.

Babystar

Sep 6, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto 2025

The screen-time satire ‘Babystar’ delivers sharp observations about social media coupled with a surprisingly bold visual style.

Saipan

Sep 6, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto 2025

‘Saipan’ scores big in a thrilling true story about off-pitch football shenanigans.