Downton Abbey: A New Era - A genteel sitcom with some moist-eyed goodbyes
The Kids in the Hall Reboot: Older and Wryer, with More Jiggly Bits
ReviewJim SlotekReboot comedy from the '90s, The Kids in the Hall, Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, Mr. Tyzik the head-crusher, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Buddy Cole
Firestarter: Stephen King Remake Fails to Reignite
Memoria: A Thai Master’s Latest Featuring Tilda Swinton and A Big Bang
ReviewJim SlotekMemoria, Thailand, Colombia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tilda Swinton, Art house movies, TIFF, Cannes, Sci-fi, Jeanne Balibar, Agnes Brekke
The Innocents: With Great Powers, Come Children with Great Irresponsibility
Vortex: Into The Dark Again With Gaspar Noé, This Time With Empathy
ReviewJim SlotekVortex, Films about dementia, Cannes, Gaspar Noé, Françoise Lebrun, Dario Argento, Alex Lutz, Kylian Dheret, Drama, Set in Paris
Petite Maman: Magic Afoot in Generational Tale About Mother-Daughter Bonds
By Karen Gordon
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Nitram: Acclaimed Fact-Based Drama on Australian Tragedy Soars on Riveting Performances
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekDrama, fact based drama, Australia, Nitram, Shaun Grant, Justin Kurzel, Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Anthony LaPaglia, Essie Davis, Sean Keenan
Peace by Chocolate: A Sweet, Light Confection About a Real-Life Refugee Success Story
Stanleyville: Odd Directorial Debut Like an Episode of Survivor… Only Weirder and Less Fun
ReviewJim SlotekStanleyville, Canadian feature debut, Drama, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Julian Riching, Susanne Wuest, Adam Brown, Christian Serritiello, George Tchortov, Cara Ricketts
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Saving the universes, one trope at a time
Hot Docs ‘22: Even More Brief Encounters With the Best Told Real-Life Stories on the Planet
By Original-Cin Staff
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ReviewJim SlotekHot Docs 2022, Attica, Relative, SAM NOW, Sexual Healing, Shabu, documentary, Film Festival, Documentary Film Festival, My Two Voices
Children of Sin: Bible-Thumping Horror We've Seen Before
Memory: Liam Neeson plays a hitman with memory problems, in another forgettable thriller
Hot Docs ‘22: More Brief Encounters With the Best Told Real-Life Stories on the Planet
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ReviewJim SlotekDon't Come Searching, Hot Docs 2022, Framing Agnes, I Didn't See You There, Make People Better, My Old School, Navalny, The Art of Silence, The Exiles, The Killing of a Journalist, We Feed People
Hot Docs '22: Brief Encounters With the Best-Told, Real-Life Stories on the Planet
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs 2022, A House Made of Splinters, Beautiful Scars, Bernie Langile Wants To Know What Happened To Bernie Langile, Blue Island, Delikado, Million Dollar Pigeons, Scrap, Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children
The Sadness: Not Technically a Zombie Movie, But Gory Enough For Greatness
A Taste of Hunger: Film about Restauranteurs Fraying Over Elusive Michelin Star Could Use More Salt
By Karen Gordon
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Hot Docs '22: Our Picks for the World’s Biggest & Best Documentary Film Festival
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs, Hot Docs 2022, Batata, Category: Woman, The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks, Attica, SAM NOW, Relative, We Feed People, Million Dolla Pigeons, Make People Better, Framing Agnes, The Killing of a Journalist, Into the Weeds, Still Working 9 to 5, How Saba Kept Singing
Navalny: Portrait of an Enemy of Tyranny, and the Unraveling of a Political Poisoning
