The Asian Cut

Watching Asian and Asian diaspora films with a cutting, critical lens

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‘Rabbit Trap’ Review: Wrestling with the Unknown in Both Sound and Silence

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‘Waltzing with Brando’ Review: Tia Carrere Embraces the Excess

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We've still got plenty of #TIFF50 reviews and interviews on their way, but in the meantime, here are our five favourite films that played at TIFF 2025!

✨ It Was Just as Accident
✨ Ky Nam Inn
✨ Left-Handed Girl
✨ Magellan
✨ Palestine 36

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‘Lucky Lu’ Review: Capturing the fragile dream of immigrant survival #TIFF50 ✨

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‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ Review: Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han's animated film inspires joy and curiosity #TIFF50 ✨

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I had such fun writing about one of the best films of the year. @sineoliviaph @TheAsianCut #TIFF #TIFF50

TIFF 2025: Lav Diaz’s ‘Magellan’ and the Deconstruction of Conquerors and Myths  https://t.co/v1Be0iWZrA

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‘Magellan’ Review: Lav Diaz's Deconstruction of Conquerors and Myths #TIFF50 ✨

https://t.co/rCOBp7NN6G

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‘Renoir’ Review: Examining Coming-of-Age in the Shadow of Grief #TIFF50 ✨

https://t.co/z9OjLr0YJ6

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‘Hamlet’ Review: Aneil Karia Locks onto Riz Ahmed’s Performance and Doesn't Let Go #TIFF50 ✨

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‘Ky Nam Inn’ Review: Translating a Timeless Love Story to Vietnam #TIFF50

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‘100 Sunset’ Review: Showing the Duelling Views of a Toronto Tibetan Community #TIFF50

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I wrote a few words about Lav Diaz's TIFF-bound film (and the PH submission for Best International Feature Film) MAGELLAN @TheAsianCut:

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'Shook' Review: An Ode to Family and Life

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Next week, the brightest stars of film descend up on Toronto ✨

Ahead of the festival, we've selected our most anticipated films of #TIFF50, including Rental Family, A Useful Ghost, It Was Just An Accident, Magellan, and more!

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Vice Is Broke Review: The Seduction of Cool

Eddie Huang's latest documentary hits MUBI this Friday

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"My hero is and always will be Hayao Miyazaki," filmmaker Usman Riaz tells The Asian Cut.

Read our interview with Riaz and check out his feature directorial debut and Pakistan's first hand-drawn animated film, The Glassworker!

https://t.co/WUaYx8o6pW

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‘Where Are You Really From’ Review: Elaine Hsieh Chou's latest novel, a collection of short stories, digs into the dark side of identity and desire 📖

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“It's becoming more and more where it's not leading the conversation,” Bernard White says of the racial specificity in his new film Shook. “These [characters] could be anybody.”

Read our interview with White and Saamer Usmani: https://t.co/64uEiYKQop

In 🇨🇦 theatres today!

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Freakier Friday Review: Manny Jacinto charms and swoons while director Nisha Ganatra gives fans of the original movie the nostalgia Gen X and millennials crave

🔗 : https://t.co/xOZT7MhQBK

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‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: Yeo Siew Huas latest lingers where it looks when considering a surveillance state

Read @PaulEnicola's review below!

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