Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - Fewer Beasts, More Nazi Metaphor, Less Charm
All My Puny Sorrows: 'To Be or Not to Be' Remains the Question in Ambitious Adaptation of Toews Novel
Spiritwalker: South Korean Body-Swapping Martial Arts Fantasy is Ambitiously Ambiguous
By Karen Gordon
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Mothering Sunday: A Writer’s Life Filtered through the Female Gaze
By Jennie Punter
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ReviewJim SlotekMothering Sunday, Eva Husson, Graham Swift, British period film, 1920s, writer’s life, female gaze, sensuality, Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Olivia Colman
Everything Went Fine: A French Family Grapples With Assisted Suicide in a Film That Avoids Melodrama
By Karen Gordon
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Ambulance: Wheels On the Ground, Michael Bay Does What He Does A Bit Better
Cow: The New Milk Cow Blues
Sundown: Uncertainty Exalts Director Michel Franco’s Singular Mexican-Set Drama
As They Made Us: Twee Family Drama Boasts Strong Cast, So-So Story
ReviewJim SlotekAs They Made Us, Mayim Bialik, Dianna Agron, Candice Bergen, Dustin Hoffman, Simon Helberg, Justin Chu Cary, Family drama, Drama, End of life issues, Neko Case
Minamata: Johnny Depp Goes Deep in Film About the Japanese Town That Gave Its Name to a Disease
Slow Horses: Gary Oldman is Pungently Good in Darkly Funny Spy Series
The Last Tourist: Grim Doc Exposes the Massive Downsides of Easy Global Travel
ReviewJim SlotekDocumentary, Environmental messages, Environmental horror, The Last Tourist, Tyson Sadler, Jane Goodall, Bruce Poon Tip, G Adventures, Travel, Tourism, Travel & Tourism, Animals, Cruelty to animals
Morbius: Not Quite a Horror movie, Just Another Super-Hero Movie
Ahed’s Knee: An Israeli Filmmaker Loses It In The Desert
You Won’t Be Alone: Folklore-Based Arthouse Horror a Parable for Modern Times
By Karen Gordon
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Everything Everywhere All at Once: Michelle Yeoh Hops the Multiverse in a Joyously Insane Ode to Life, Consequences
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekEverything Everywhere All at Once, The Daniels, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong, Jenny Slate, Sci-fi, Martian Arts, Action, Adventure, Action-adventure, Fantasy
Learn To Swim: Jazz Romance Finds Abstract Truth Between the Notes
By Jennie Punter
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Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood—Richard Linklater Enters the Nostalgia Zone
By Jennie Punter
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The Lost City: Romancing Yet Another Stone, Bullock and Tatum Bring Back the 'Romp'
Canadian Film Festival: Full Stream Ahead for the Third Year
ReviewJim SlotekCanadian Film Fest, Super Channel, Brotherhood, A Small Fortune, Carmen, Tenzin, Ashgrove, Tehranto, Faran Moradi, The Noise of Motors, Le bruit de moteurs, Phillipe Gregoire, We’re All In This Together, Katie Boland, Adam Perry, Jeremy LaLonde, The Long Rider, Sean Cisterna, Michael LeBlanc, Josh Reichmann, Beneath the Surface, Marie-Geneviève Chabot, The Last Mark, Reem Morsi, Valerie Buhagiar
