There is talk of “hungry ghosts” and shadows but little of substance to show as the gambling cliches stack up like bad debts and the plot twists are signposted as brightly as the casinos.
When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
(Country: Germany, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Edward Berger; Writer: Rowan Joffe, based on the book by Lawrence Osborne; Stars: Colin Farrell, Fala Chen, Tilda Swinton, Alex Jennings, Adrienne Tau, Jason Tobin)
The lads’ delight at their early success is engaging, and both stars acquit themselves well.
Two Scottish lads from Dundee conned the music industry by pretending to be an established Californian rap duo, bagging a record deal and appearing on MTV until their scam unraveled.
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2025; Director: James McAvoy; Writer: Gavin Bain, Elaine Gracie, Archie Thomson; Stars: James McAvoy, Seamus McLean Ross, Amber Anderson, Samuel Bottomley, Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong)
This isn’t a fuzzy celebration of making do with what you have as you get older but of embracing the passions that endure.
An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's decision to sell her home. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to keep her home and reclaim the belongings of a lifetime.
(Country: France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Morocco; Year: 2025; Director: Maryam Touzani; Writer: Maryam Touzani; Stars: Marta Etura, Carmen Maura, María Alfonsa Rosso, Miguel Garcés, Ahmed Boulane)
In 1575, the young Miguel de Cervantes is taken prisoner and sold to the fearsome Hassan, Bajá of Alger. While awaiting a ransom, he discovers an unexpected refuge in the art of storytelling...And he devises a daring escape plan.
Harper and Charlie try to build a life together. While Harper strives to carve out a career as a chef, Charlie is stuck. Facing challenges in their relationship, they struggle to prove they are meant for each other, but will it be enough?
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Tom Dean, Mac Eldridge; Writer: Tom Dean; Stars: Nick Robinson, Emilia Jones, Nicholas Cirillo, Ja'Quan Monroe-Henderson, Gralen Bryant Banks, Christina Spencer, Jessica Blackmore)
The Christophers
The children of a once famous artist hire a forger to complete some unfinished, long ago abandoned canvases so they'll have an inheritance when he dies.
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Steven Soderbergh; Writer: Ed Solomon; Stars: Ian McKellen, James Corden, Michaela Coel, Jessica Gunning)
The performance [Sweeney] gives here, slipping easily into Christy’s skin, is going to knock some people for six.
The story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the Nineties.
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: David Michôd; Writer: Mirrah Foulkes, David Michôd; Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Merritt Wever, Ben Foster, Ethan Embry, Katy O'Brian, Tony Cavalero)
American filmmaker Maxine arrives in Paris for Fashion Week on a life-and-death journey, facing challenges and self-discovery.
(Country: France, US; Year: 2025; Director: Alice Winocour; Writer: Alice Winocour; Stars: Angelina Jolie, Louis Garrel, Ella Rumpf, Garance Marillier)
Dead Man's Wire
On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis, entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a "dead man's wire" from the trigger to Tony's own neck.
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Gus Van Sant; Writer: Austin Kolodney; Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Colman Domingo, Dacre Montgomery, Myha'la)
Degrassi: Whatever It Takes
A nostalgic journey through the groundbreaking Canadian teen series Degrassi, featuring interviews with cast members, devoted fans, and hip-hop icon Drake, who explore the show's lasting cultural impact.
In a future Paris divided by class, an AI named ALMA oversees society. When its creator is assassinated, a top agent and a jaded cop are forced to work together to solve a murder that may expose the dark secrets of the system they serve.
A down-on-his-luck crooner is given a chance at a comeback by an old-school Vegas personality, but his brother's schemes and his own penchant for self-sabotage threaten to ruin the deal.
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Nic Pizzolatto; Writer: Nic Pizzolatto; Stars: Al Pacino, Kate Mara, Vince Vaughn, Cobie Smulders, Mary Steenburgen, Simon Rex, Shane Gillis)
Eternal Return
Follows Cass a young woman who has come to a personal point of emotional invulnerability, until she meets Virgil, a cartographer. Along with his partner Malcolm, the pair will attempt to travel back in time to awaken Cass to love again.
As supervisor Horn is welcoming his partner Léone into the hut he shares with engineer Cal, a man called Alboury appears outside. He is determined to stay there until they return the body of his brother to him, who was killed on the site.
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Claire Denis; Writer: Claire Denis, Suzanne Lindon, Andrew Litvack; Stars: Tom Blyth, Matt Dillon, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Isaach De Bankolé)
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation
(Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2025; Director: Guillermo Del Toro; Writer: Guillermo Del Toro, based on the book by Mary Shelley; Stars: Ralph Ineson, Mia Goth, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Oscar Isaac, Charles Dance, Christian Convery, David Bradley)
Playful biopic that rips up chronology and frequently tears down the fourth wall so that we’re never sure if we’re going to be the ones looking into the fishbowl of his life or the ones being inspected.
The life of the writer Franz Kafka, from his birth to his death.
(Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, France, Turkey; Year: 2025; Director: Agnieszka Holland; Writer: Marek Epstein, Agnieszka Holland; Stars: Karel Dobrý, Peter Kurth, Stanislav Majer, Katharina Stark, Sebastian Schwarz)
DaCosta has managed to create something which feels acutely contemporary and fresh.
Three women striving for freedom in different ways collide at a party in a contemporary reworking of Henrik Ibsen's classic play.
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Nia DaCosta; Writer: Nia DaCosta, based on the play by Henrik Ibsen; Stars: Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, Imogen Poots, Nicholas Pinnock, Tom Bateman, Finbar Lynch)
Rose Byrne anchors the whole damn thing with a performance that gives the sense of wobbling for eternity on a tightrope without ever quite falling off.
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Mary Bronstein; Writer: Mary Bronstein; Stars: Rose Byrne, Danielle Macdonald, Josh Pais, Daniel Zolghadri, Ivy Wolk, Conan O'Brien, A$AP Rocky, Helen Hong, Ella Beatty, Delaney Quinn, Mark Stolzenberg, Lark White, Eva Kornet)
In crumbling Caracas, after burying her mother, Adelaida finds her home taken by armed militia. With society falling apart, she must risk all, including her identity, to survive.
In post-war Saigon, a young translator and an older widow find comfort with each other.
(Country: Vietnam; Year: 2025; Director: Leon Le; Writer: Leon Le, Minh Ngoc Nguyen; Stars: Lien Binh Phat, Do Thi Hai Yen, The Manh Tran, Tham Nguyen Thi, Ho Thanh Trung)
The Lost Bus
Explores what went wrong in California's Camp Fire, the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century, and how to prevent future tragedies, also including stories of a bus driver and school teacher who helped through a wildfire.
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Paul Greengrass; Writer: Paul Greengrass, Brad Ingelsby, Lizzie Johnson; Stars: Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera, Yul Vazquez, Ashlie Atkinson, Danny McCarthy)
Lovely Day
(Mille Secrets Mille Dangers)
Alain weds Virginie at Saint-Joseph Oratory's crypt. Despite family attending, including his divorced Lebanese-Egyptian immigrant parents, his joy fades as insomnia, anxiety, and illness return.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Philippe Falardeau; Writer: Philippe Falardeau, Alain Farah; Stars: Rose-Marie Perreault, Paul Ahmarani, Georges Khabbaz, Neil Elias Abdulwahab, Natalie Tannous)
Four siblings, torn apart by the Sixties Scoop, reunite for one week.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Tasha Hubbard; Writer: Tasha Hubbard, Emil Sher; Stars: Michael Greyeyes, Carmen Moore, Alex Rice, Michelle Thrush, Rachel Cantin, Jordan Jayde)
A 24-year-old music critic gets romantically involved with members of an indie band she decides to publicise, in a story set against Montreal's indie music scene in 2011.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Chandler Levack; Writer: Chandler Levack; Stars: Devon Bostick, Jay Baruchel, Barbie Ferreira, Juliette Gariépy, Stanley Simons, Robert Naylor)
Monkey In A Cage
An ageing TV star is falsely accused of rape by his ex-girlfriend and finds himself struggling against a corrupt system.
(Country: India; Year: 2025; Director: Anurag Kashyap; Stars: Bobby Deol, Sanya Malhotra, Sapna Pabbi, Indrajith Sukumaran, Saba Azad)
Guillaume Marbeck as Godard is pitch perfect, trademark dark glasses and tobacco smoke his indispensable props with even the voice uncannily resonant of the man himself.
This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless.
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Holly Gent, Laetitia Masson, Vincent Palmo Jr, Michèle Pétin; Stars: Zoey Deutch, Alix Bénézech, Paolo Luka Noé, Nicolas Dozol, Guillaume Marbeck, Tom Novembre, Jade Phan-Gia, Aubry Dullin, Côme Thieulin, Blaise Pettebone, Adrien Rouyard, Matthieu Penchinat, Jodie Ruth-Forest, Roxane Rivière, Jean-Jacques Le Vessier)
All of this fine work has potential, but too often the deeper ideas in the book are teased only to be abandoned.
UK 1982. An young aspiring Japanese-British writer plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko’s post-war experiences in Nagasaki. Haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, Etsuko begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mother-to-be. The writer begins to find troubling inconsistencies in the recollections.
Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage girl from humble roots, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days, but dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.
Two inseparable best friends, Sam and Ari, start to unravel as they compete for the affection of Liz, the middle-aged mom auditing their college poetry workshop.
A talented violinist, Cecilia, confined in an orphanage, meets Vivaldi who becomes her teacher. Under his mentorship and through his music, she gains courage to break free from the life she was destined for and pursue her passion.
Two women are friends and of the same age. They make an audacious plan to steal $6 million USD in gold bars and flee from the area.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Lee Hwan; Writer: Lee Hwan-kyung, Kwak Jae-min, Oh Yu-kyung; Stars: Han So-hee, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Shin-rock, Kim Sung-cheol, Lee Jae-kyoon, Yooa)
It’s not a showy performance, but it’s a standout.
A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
Jenkin’s style, impressionistic when it comes to places, is particular in regard to objects, the real anchors of our lives.
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Mark Jenkin; Writer: Mark Jenkin; Stars: George MacKay, Callum Turner, Rosalind Eleazar, Francis Magee, Mary Woodvine)
Marcelo is at home in the fine tradition of flicks where the fact that they are an agent is mainly a secret to them.
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realises that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
(Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Writer: Kleber Mendonça Filho; Stars: Wagner Moura, Udo Kier, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Hermila Guedes, Alice Carvalho, Thomás Aquino, Isabél Zuaa, Suzy Lopes, João Vitor Silva, Roney Villela, Rubens Santos, Luciano Chirolli, Buda Lira, Jimmy Astley)
What marks Trier out is his ability to take on intellectual ideas like this but make them play out in ways that don’t feel forced or overly constructed.
In the wake of their mother's death, two sisters grapple with their relationship with their filmmaker father as he tries to involve one of them in his latest project.
(Country: Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden; Year: 2025; Director: Joachim Trier; Writer: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt; Stars: Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Cory Michael Smith, Jesper Christensen, Catherine Cohen, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Bjørn Alexander, Jonas Jacobsen, Pia Borgli)
(Country: US, Canada, UK, Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Pablo Trapero; Writer: Sarah Polley, Pablo Trapero; Stars: Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Johnny Flynn, George MacKay, Imelda Staunton, Noah Jupe)
The lives mirror each other, build on each other, contradict each other, haunt each other.
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Mascha Schilinski; Writer: Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski; Stars: Luise Heyer, Filip Schnack, Lea Drinda, Susanne Wuest, Lena Urzendowsky, Luzia Oppermann, Lucas Prisor, Konstantin Lindhorst, Gode Benedix, Martin Rother, Hanna Heckt, Bärbel Schwarz, Florian Geißelmann)
A teenager forms an intense bond with a refugee taken in by her family. As their obsessive relationship deepens, she becomes enamored with the refugee's lifestyle, leading to desire, jealousy, and a world that is not as it appears.
(Country: Belgium, Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Clement Virgo; Writer: Tamara Berger, Clement Virgo; Stars: Angourie Rice, Mallori Johnson, Lauren Lee Smith, Idrissa Sanogo, Matteo Simoni, Nola Elvis Kemper)
As her partner embarks on a new restaurant venture, a teacher discovers that she's facing serious health problems.
(Country: Italy, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Isabel Coixet; Writer: Enrico Audenino, Isabel Coixet, based on the book by Michela Murgia; Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Silvia D'Amico, Galatea Bellugi, Francesco Carril, Sarita Choudhury)
There are no doubt those who would argue this magic-hour drenched vision of America through the 1900s is a bit too chocolate-boxy for their liking but the weight of tradition can exert an impressive pull and does so here.
Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century as he experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes.
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Clint Bentley; Writer: Clint Bentley, Denis Johnson, Greg Kwedar; Stars: Kerry Condon, Felicity Jones, Joel Edgerton, William H. Macy, Clifton Collins Jr., Sean San Jose, Ron Ford, Frank A. Gaimari, Alfred Hsing, Johnny Arnoux, Bonni Dichone, Tim Altevers, Zoe Rose Short, Jennifer Simmons, Chris Kardos)
A talented piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.
(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2025; Director: Daniel Roher; Writer: Robert Ramsey, Daniel Roher; Stars: Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman, Havana Rose Liu, Lior Raz, Tovah Feldshuh)
The Ugly
A man investigates the truth behind his long-lost mother's death.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Yeon Sang-ho; Writer: Yeon Sang-ho; Stars: Park Jeong-min, Kwon Hae-hyo, Im Sung-jae, Shin Hyun-been, Han Ji-hyeon)
There is some very good work here, and all of it tempered where it needs to be, to give due prominence to Hind herself.
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A six-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.
(Country: Tunisia, France; Year: 2025; Director: Kaouther Ben Hania; Writer: Kaouther Ben Hania; Stars: Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Clara Khoury, Amer Hlehel)
Dano has chosen to use the same flat vocal expression throughout, a technique well suited to satire which might have worked if only the rest of the film had been a bit more lively.
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Olivier Assayas; Writer: Olivier Assayas, Emmanuel Carrère, based on the novel by Giuliano Da Empoli; Stars: Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander)
You Had To Be There: How The Toronto Godspell Ignited The Comedy Revolution...
(You Had To Be There: How The Toronto Godspell Ignited The Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, And Created A Community That Changed The World (In A Canadian Kind Of Way))
A documentary about the legendary 1972 Toronto production of the musical about the life of Jesus, which launched many illustrious careers and ignited a comedy revolution.
(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2025; Director: Nick Davis; Writer: Nick Davis, Jane Mendelsohn; Stars: Heidi Gardner, Catherine O'Hara, John Candy, Mike Myers, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Victor Garber, Janeane Garofalo)
