# Chase Infiniti is the real deal

> A math prodigy falls for her teaching assistant, and Toronto just met its next movie star.
- Title: Chase Infiniti is the real deal · Variety | Shortify
- Summary: A math prodigy falls for her teaching assistant, and Toronto just met its next movie star. Chase Infiniti's follow-up to "One Battle After Another" proves…
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- Source: Variety — https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/the-julia-set-review-chase-infiniti-1236858794
- Author: Owen Gleiberman
- Published: 2026-09-12T02:54:48+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: film review, tiff, chase infiniti, drama, romance, entertainment, culture
## Two pieces of news
"The Julia Set" premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and Owen Gleiberman calls it nothing short of terrific. Two things about it are worth reporting.

> the nothing-short-of-terrific new movie that premiered tonight at the Toronto Film Festival
## Her first film since the breakout
This is Chase Infiniti's first movie since she played the Leonardo DiCaprio character's daughter in "One Battle After Another."
## The mettle is confirmed
News one: she is a movie star. Gleiberman singles out a lyrical, wised-up innocence that she carries as an actor.

> its astonishing quality of lyrical wised-up innocence as an actor
## Julia Fischer, freshman prodigy
Infiniti plays a math prodigy in her first year of college, brilliant at the work and green at everything else.
## The mistake she chooses
Julia falls into a relationship with her teaching assistant. The film frames it as a mistake, but one she walks into with big dark wide open eyes.

> though she chooses it with big dark wide open eyes
## The dream preppie TA
Christopher Briney, of "The Summer I Turned Pretty" and the "Mean Girls" musical, plays the ridiculously good-looking TA on the other side of the affair.
## Key takeaway

Chase Infiniti's follow-up to "One Battle After Another" proves the breakout was no fluke.