Praise for Cloris Leachman’s Outstanding Final Role in Jump, Darling
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekJump Darling, Cloris Leachman, Jayne Eastwood, Thomas Duplessie, Drag Queens, Price Edward County, Canadian movies, Phil Connell, Comedy, Drama, Family, Aging, Actors' final performances
My Salinger Year: Memoir-Based Drama about Catcher in the Rye Writer Blurry As its Subject
Review, PreviewJim SlotekMy Salinger Year, Memoir adaptation, Phillipe Falardeau, Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Canadian film, Tim Post
Radical - Exiting Extremism: Film series seeks answers to the question, 'Why are terrible political ideas so contagious?'
Review, PreviewJim SlotekRadical – Exiting Extremism film series, Wild Heart, Jan “Monchi” Gorkow, Goethe-Institut, Toronto Jewish Film Society, The Renegades — Long Way from Home, Mariam Nouri, Lisa Maria Hagen, Combat Girls, Alina Levshin, Films about the contagion of extremism, Jella Haase, David Wnendt, Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox
Land: Robin Wright Navigates Bereavement and Bears in Modest Directorial Debut
Coming 2 America: Warm and Indoors with Eddie Murphy… Isn’t That Enough?
Review, PreviewJim SlotekComing 2 America, Sequel, Comedy, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Craig Brewer, Leslie Jones, James Earl Jones, Black films, Jermaine Fowler
No Visible Trauma: Hot Docs' free 'For Viola' screening series calls out what may be Canada's most lethal police force
The Affair: Europudding in a Lovely Real-Life Terrarium
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Affair, Clae, Julius Sevcik, Hanna Alström, WWII, architecture, Ludwig Mies van de Rohe, Czech Republic, Nazis, Historical drama, Lesbian love story, Carice van Houten, Villa Tugendhat, adaptation, The Glass Room
Stray: A day in the life of an Istanbul street dog speaks as much to human activity as to canine
ReviewJim SlotekDocumentaries about stray dogs, Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings, Street dogs in Istanbul, Elizabeth Lo, Stray, Zeytin, Syrian street kids in Istanbul, Taksim Square, Diogenes, Pariah Dog, Rescuing Rex
The United States vs. Billie Holiday: A magnetic performance in a mess of a biopic
ReviewJim SlotekBillie Holiday, Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Golden Globe winner, Awards season movies, Lee Daniels, Strange Fruit, Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues, John Szwed, Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth, Harry Anslinger, Suzan-Lori Parks, Johann Hari’s Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, Abel Meeropol, James Baldwin, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, The Burning of Will Brown’s Body, Natasha Lyonne, Tallulah Bankhead, Garrett Hedlund, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Miss Lawrence
Notturno: Images say it all in haunting documentary about the survivors of ISIS's brutal 'caliphate'
By Karen Gordon
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The Vigil: Chilling Jewish folklore proves Catholics don't have a monopoly on religious-based horror
ReviewJim SlotekJewish supernatural legends, Golem, Dybbuk, Keith Thomas, The Vigil, Shomer, Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, Lynn Cohen, The Limehouse Golem, The Possession
The Mauritanian: A nightmarish ordeal gets second billing to a less compelling tale of legal wrangling
ReviewJim SlotekThe Mauritanian, Guantánamo Diary, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo Bay detention camp, Bob Dylan’s The Man in Me, 9/11, Kevin Macdonald, The Last King of Scotland, Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley, Tahar Rahim, Benedict Cumberbatch
Minari: Heart and playful moments in this tale of South Koreans seeking the American Dream in Arkansas dirt
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekMinari water celery, Minari film, Lee Isaac Chung, Immigrant farmers, Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim, Noel Cho, Yuh-jung Youn, South Korean immigrant experience, Award season films
Mafia Inc.: A Solid Montreal Gangster Drama That Breaks New Heads If Not New Ground
ReviewJim SlotekCanadian crime movies, Mafia Inc, Frank Paterno, Sergio Castellitto, Daniel Grou, 7 Days, L’Affaire Dumont, Sylvain Guy, André Cédilot, Donny Falsett, Marc-André Grondin, Gilbert Sicotte, Montreal mob scene, Underrated Canadian movies
Deragh Campbell Soars As a Woman on the Edge in Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 ft.
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekAnne at 13000 ft., Deragh Campbell, Kazik Radwanski, Lawrene Denkers, Matt Johnson, TIFF 2019, Canadian movies, Drama, Woman on the edge, Skydiving, Dorothea Pass
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Free Documentary Series a Midwinter Gift
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci Shine in Moving Drama Supernova
By Linda Barnard
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Love in the time of COVID: Three in-the-moment movie romances for a viral Valentine
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekValentine's Day during COVID, Films shot under pandemic protocols, Palm Springs, Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, Groundhog Day, Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Max Barbakow, Andy Siara, Locked Down, Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Doug Liman, Steven Knight., Malcolm and Marie, Sam Levinson, Zendaya, John David Washington
Breaking News in Yuba County: Great cast in a caper comedy that breaks real bad
ReviewJim SlotekCaper comedies, Breaking News In Yuba County, Allison Janney, Matthew Modine, Mila Kunis, Bridget Everett, Juliette Lewis, Jimmi Simpson, Keong Sim, Awkwafina, Clifton Collins Jr., Amanda Idoko, Tate Taylor, The Help, Ellen Barkin, Regina Hall
Judas and the Black Messiah: In this essential bit of Black Panther history, Judas is the more intriguing character
