“Tony” is Yet Another Good Biopic
The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.

Matthew Miller is a Canadian screenwriter and producer. He is also a contractual university lecturer. Miller's work has been featured at international film festivals and has garnered awards at TIFF, Sundance, and Berlin. Miller achieved widespread acclaim for the feature film BlackBerry (2023), co-written with Matt Johnson, which premiered in competition at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, and won 14 Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. Miller has also produced Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie and Mile End Kicks (both 2025), and he co-wrote the screenplay for Johnson's forthcoming Tony (2026) for A24. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Matthew Miller (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.
The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.
Released on Netflix this last July, Mile End Kicks, catches the eyes of those who are wanting to escape the disasters of 2026 and visit the era of peak Tumblr, unforgettable music hits, and iconic fashion trends—-of 2011. This coming-of-age film directed by Chandler Levack succeeds at portraying an accurate representation of what life was like in the early 2010’s.