AwardsWatch

‘Poetic License’ Review: Maude Apatow’s Delightful Directorial Debut is a New Coming-of-Age Classic [B+] TIFF

Sophia Ciminello September 14, 2025

Maude Apatow is no stranger to cross-generational coming-of-age stories. Growing up, she had minor roles in her father Judd Apatow’s comedic films (The 40-Year-Old Virgin,... Read More

‘Hamnet’ Wins 50th Toronto Film Festival Audience Award; ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ are Runners-Up

Erik Anderson September 14, 2025

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet has won the TIFF People’s Choice Award of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, making her the first director to win the... Read More

‘Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts)’ Review: A Narratively Ambitious Genre-Bending Tale of Familial Trauma [B] TIFF

Matt St. Clair September 13, 2025

After their extraordinary sophomore feature Wildhood, Bretten Hannem crafts another demonstration of being in touch with one’s own Indigenous heritage. One that is even more... Read More

Director Watch Podcast Ep. 116 – ‘Tokyo Story’ (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)

Ryan McQuade September 13, 2025

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More

AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 306 – Breaking Down the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival

Ryan McQuade September 12, 2025

On episode 306 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello to break down the films, awards... Read More

‘Christy’ Review: Sydney Sweeney’s Boxer Biopic Has Familiar Filmmaking Genes but a Captivating Central Story of Perseverance [B] TIFF

Trace Sauveur September 12, 2025

It’s easy to look at Christy, the new boxing biopic from journeyman director David Michôd, and expect the most formulaic story: a scrappy fighter from... Read More

Oliver Hermanus Talks About the Journey of ‘The History of Sound’ and Working with Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor [VIDEO INTERVIEW]

Interviews (Film)

Oliver Hermanus Talks About the Journey of ‘The History of Sound’ and Working with Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor [VIDEO INTERVIEW]

Erik Anderson September 12, 2025

The history of The History of Sound began five years ago, at the beginning of COVID lockdowns in March 2020. Right at that point, Mescal... Read More

‘Dust Bunny’ Review: Bryan Fuller’s Hybrid Fantasy-Action-Horror Fable Has an Endearingly Childlike Sense of Enchantment [B] TIFF

Trace Sauveur September 11, 2025

There’s not much talking at the beginning of Dust Bunny. The opening 15 minutes of the long-awaited feature-length film from cult favorite TV writer Bryan... Read More

‘Scarlet’ Review: Mana Ashida’s Vocal Performance Highlights Mamoru Hosoda’s Animated Fantasy [B] TIFF

Kevin L. Lee September 11, 2025

Minutes into Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet, we are thrust into a world that thematically plays with elements of his past works – films like Digimon, Summer... Read More