Rabid: Remake of classic early Cronenberg horror is all homage, few new ideas
ReviewJim SlotekDavid Cronenberg, Rabid, The Soska sisters, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska:, Identical twin filmmakers, Horror movie reboots, American Mary, Tarantino’s Basterds, Dead Ringers, Laura Vandervoort
Gretel and Hansel: An odd fairy-tale take that loses its way after it's out of the woods
ReviewJim SlotekBrothers Grimm, Disney Silly Symphony, Gretel and Hansel., Oz Perkins, Anthony Perkins, Sophia Lillis, Sammy Leakey, Woodsman, Langley, Charles Babalola, Alice Krige, Star Trek: First Contact., Rob Hayes, Female-centric remakes
Rosie: Gripping Irish Drama Explores Homelessness From a Mother’s Perspective
The Rhythm Section: Blake Lively Revenge Thriller Sputters Long Before Stuff Blows Up Good
ReviewBlake Lively, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown, Female revenge movie, Thriller, action, drama, Reed Morano, adaptation, January opening, Raza Jaffrey
Man Proposes, God Disposes: Promising but unfulfilling Jarmusch-esque debut by Canadian director
ReviewJim SlotekMan Proposes, God Disposes, Polish/Brazilian/Canadian co-production, Mateusz Nedza, Bruna Massarelli, Daniel Leo, Paradise Theatre, iTunes movies, Apple Movies, Canadian feature debut, Maurício Zani, Unvanted pregnancy, Thomas à Kempis, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff
Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in the theatres
ReviewJim SlotekAnd The Birds Rained Down, Louise Archambault, Color Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft, Tommy Chong, Nicolas Cage, he Gentlemen, The Gentlemen, Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Eddie Marsan, Charlie Hunnam, The Last Full Measure, Christopher Plummer, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Fonda, Quezon’s Game
And the Birds Rained Down: A touching love-among-the-elderly tale amid wildfire flames
ReviewJim SlotekAnd the Birds Rained Down, Louise Archambault, Jocelyne Saucier, TIFF Canada’s Top 10 films of 2019, Kenneth Welsh, Gilbert Sicotte, Rémy Girard, Andrée Lachapelle, Sexuality among the elderly, Éric Robidoux, Ève Landry, Leonard Cohen Bird on a Wire, Time by Tom Waits
Color Out of Space: Nic Cage, a chaotic, senseless script plus a meteor equals, um...
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekColor Out of Space., Nicolas Cage, Sci-fi horror, Richard Stanley, Hardware, Dust Devil, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meye, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Tommy Chong, Meteor crash plots
The Last Full Measure: Vietnam War Drama Uplifts a Real-Life Hero, Applauds America
ReviewThe Last Full Measure, Sebastian Stan, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Fonda, Diane Ladd, Christopher Plummer, Vietnam War, War movie, Jeremy Irvine, Todd Robinson, fact-based drama
The Gentlemen: Guy Ritchie's return to the gangster genre is more bad than bad-ass
ReviewJim SlotekThe Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie, British gangster films, Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam, Matthew McConaughey, Eddie Marsan, Jeremy Strong, Colin Farrell, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, RocknRolla
Quezon's Game: The inspiring tale of the "Oskar Schindler of the Philippines" is worth telling better than this
By Linda Barnard
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ReviewJim SlotekPhilippine President Manuel L. Quezon, Quezon's Game, Oskar Schindler, Steven Spielberg, Schindler’s List, Matthew Rosen, Janice Y. Perez, Dean Rosen, Raymond Bagatsing, Rachel Alejandro, Billy Ray Gallion, Alex Frieder, Dwight Eisenhower, David Bianco, Paul McNutt, Saving Jews during WWII, Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
Your Weekend Review: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres
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ReviewDolittle, Clemency, Bad Boys For Life, What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael, Weekly Roundup, Robert Downey Jr., Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Pauline, TIFF 2019, Sundance
Clemency: Death penalty drama's conventional presentation is lifted by Alfre Woodard's angst
ReviewJim SlotekClemency, Death penalty dramas, Sundance, Just Mercy, Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek, Chinonye Chukwu, Wendell Pierce, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff
Bad Boys For Life: Reboot of Buddy Cop Dramedy Series All Filler, No Thriller
ReviewBad Boys For Life, Bad Boys, Sequel, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Cop Dramedy, buddy action movies, Michael Bay
Les Miserables: French Oscar-nom is not Victor Hugo's story, but a volatile tale of young immigrant gangs on the constant brink of breaking the peace
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekLes Misérables, Montfermeil, Ladj Ly, French suburban gangs, Victor Hugo, Paris riots of 1905, Alexis Manenti, Giordano Gederlini, Djibril Zonga, Damien Bonnard
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael Artfully Frames Famous New Yorker Film Critic
Dolittle: Third Time No Charm for Pointless Remake Neither Stars Nor CGI Can Save
ReviewDolittle, Remake, Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, Jim Broadbent, Michael Sheen, Jessie Buckley, Selena Gomez, John Cena, Steven Gaghan, Octavia Spencer, Marion Cotillard
Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres
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Botero: Upbeat Doc on Hugely Successful Living Artist Less Successful than Him
By Karen Gordon
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Cunningham: A literally moving, 3-D intro to a dance legend you may not know but should
ReviewJim SlotekCunningham movie, Merce Cunningham, Dance legends, John Cage, Jasper Johns, Radiohead, Modern dance, Robert Swinston, Jennifer Goggans, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Martha Graham, Dance documentaries, 3-D documentaries
