A thriller can keep you guessing without getting under your skin. ‘Verity’ delivers the turns, but its move to the screen comes with a softer edge. The result offers plenty to untangle while leaving readers missing the book’s more biting impact.
Movie & TV Reviews
‘Monster Mia’ has charm to spare, but its little flashes of bite keep the sweetness interesting. It’s a monster movie whose appeal comes from knowing when to be endearing and when to show its teeth.
Darkness can make an audience lean forward, searching the frame for something they hope not to find. ‘Infirmary’ leaves that attention unrewarded. This found-footage horror trades on the promise of unseen terror, but the wait for a scare becomes its own exercise in boredom.
Rick Cutter’s The Grid Unplugged starts with electric cars and ends on a failing power grid. The documentary makes a common-sense pitch for a moon-shot plan to fix it.
Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine gives John Malkovich a dynamite role as a fading CIA agent on Easter Island. From TIFF 2026: the performance is the movie. The rest goes mild.
Being chased by a tomato is ridiculous enough. Being outsmarted by one adds insult to injury. ‘Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence’ brings the tomatoes back with independent thought, giving this latest crop a new way to cause trouble.
What does relief for a troubled spirit look like when blood is part of the remedy? Our TIFF 2026 review of ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ considers Bassam Tariq’s unsettling answer and the spiritual ills at the heart of his film.
Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love follows a laid-off factory worker and the marriages that collide around him. From NYFF 2026: a film that examines job loss with profound sorrow.