The Friend: Best-In-Show Performances Distinguish Quiet Drama
ReviewJim SlotekThe Friend, TIFF 24, David Siegel, Scott McGehee, Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Sarah Pidgeon, Carla Gugino, Drama, Friendship, Animals, Dog, Great Dane, Bing the Great Dane
The Luckiest Man in America: 80s Game Show Swindle Propels Hairy Fact-Based Drama
ReviewJim SlotekThe Luckiest Man in America, TIFF 24, Samir Oliveros, Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, David Strathairn, Maisie Williams, fact-based drama, Drama, 1980s
The Studio: Seth Rogen’s Smart Satire of The Movie Biz, On TV
ReviewJim SlotekThe Studio, AppleTV+, Series, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Alex Gregory, Catherine O’Hara, Chase Sui Wonders, Kathryn Hahn, Bryan Cranston, Satire, Hollywood satire, Comedy
Friday Review Roundup: Village Keeper and A Working Man Offer a Whole Lot of Meh
By Original-Cin Staff
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ReviewJim SlotekVillage Keeper, TIFF 24, A Working Man, Jason Statham, Drama, Action films, Michael Peña, Karen Chapman, Olunike Adeliyi, Maxine Simpson, March openings
The Penguin Lessons: Waddle You Watch This Weekend?
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekHumans bonding with penguins, The Penguin Lessons, Films based on true stories, Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, Novel by Tom Michell, Director Peter Cattaneo, The Full Monty, Films about poetry, My Penguin Friend, Toronto international Film Festival
Darkest Miriam: Still Waters Run Deep in this Tale of a Toronto Librarian
Misericordia: A Quirky Mix of Sex Farce and Darkness
ReviewJim SlotekFrench films, Repressed desires, Unwelcome prodigal sons, Misericordia, Writer/director Alain Guiraudie, Stranger By The Lake, Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand, David Ayala, Jacques Develay
A Mother Apart: Existential Quest of a Rejected Jamaican Child Turned Adult Artist
Bob Trevino Likes It: An Annoyingly Compulsive People-Pleaser of a Movie
ReviewJim SlotekFather-inflicted neuroses, Same named characters, Bob Trevino Likes It, Writer-director Tracie Laymon, Conflicted young women, Relationships with older men, Barbie Ferreira, French Stewart, John Leguizamo, Lauren “Lola” Spencer
O’dessa: A Symphony without a Song
The Alto Knights: Robert De Niro Plays Antagonists in a Mafia Film That Lacks Spark
By Karen Gordon
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Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants - A Wide-Ranging Doc on a Wide-Ranging Animal
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekElephant habitats, Global treatment of elephants, Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants, Director Fern Levitt, Pinnawala, Brazil’s Global Sanctuary for Elephants, Elephant art, African Lion Safari, Performing Animal Welfare Society, Bob Barker
Black Bag: Blanchett and Fassbender Bond Beautifully in Smartly Scripted Spy Whodunit
ReviewJim SlotekSpy films, Dialogue driven thrillers, Black Bag, Director Steven Soderbergh, Scriptwriter David Koepp, Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, Slow Horses, Pierce Brosnan
Can I Get a Witness?: 50 Is The New Life Expectancy
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekCan I Get a Witness?, TIFF 24, Ann Marie Fleming, Sandra Oh, Joel Oulette, Keira Jang, Canadian, sci-fi, Drama, Dystopian stories
Opus: Deeply Dark Entertainment Media Satire is a Made-For-Malkovich Fun Ride
ReviewJim SlotekEntertainment media spoof, Opus, John Malkovich, Writer-director Mark Anthony Green, Pop superstar turned cult leader, Ayo Edebiri, Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis, Melissa Chambers, Faux thriller
Novocaine: Too Painful to Watch, Too Funny to Miss
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie - Daffy and Porky Find Buddy-Comedy Mojo
ReviewJim SlotekLooney Tunes movies, The Day the Earth Blew Up, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, Eric Bauza, Mel Blanc, Alien invasion, Fred Tatasciore, Candi Milo, Laraine Newman, Wayne Knight
Boiling Point: An English Kitchen Drama with Social Bite
ReviewJim SlotekBoiling Point, BBC, TV series, Kitchen, Philip Barantini, Mounia Akl, Vinette Robinson, Stephen Graham, Hannah Walters, Ray Panthaki, Super Channel, British, Drama
The Rule of Jenny Pen: The Twilight Years Just Got Darker
Mickey 17: Twice the Robert Pattinsons, Twice the Madness in Bong Joon Ho's Latest
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekBong Joon Ho, Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson, Programmed replacement soldiers, Space sci-fi, Alien life forms, Mickey 7 novel by Ashton Edward, Ice planet, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie
