Who’s Yer Father?: The Misadventures of PEI's only PI is Pretty Broad Humour for Such a Small Island
Butcher’s Crossing: Obsession and Greed Furnish this Home on the De-ranged
Priscilla: Elvis’ Wife Was Lonesome Many Nights, and Director Sofia Coppola Has Proof
By Karen Gordon
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Verona: Ontario-Set Coming of Age Drama Languid and Lovely
ReviewJim SlotekVerona, Canadian feature debut, Sebastian Back, Kat Khan, Andy Marshall, Yanna McIntosh, Eric McDonald, Basia Wyszynski, Drama, Coming of age
Hands That Bind: Creepy and Unsettling Prairie Gothic with Paranormal Overtones
By Chris Knight
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Rustin: Spotlighting the Dandy Hero of The Civil Rights Movement
ReviewJim SlotekRustin, TIFF 23, Civil Rights Movement, American Civil Rights, George C. Wolfe, Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Netflix, Jeffrey Wright, Aml Ameen, Martin Luther King, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper, Da‘Vine Joy Randolph
Beyond Utopia: Doc About North Korea Escapees Scary for Viewers and Protagonists
By Chris Knight
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The Holdovers: Giamatti's Grinch of a Teacher Gets the Best Lines in a Tale of Three Sad Souls
ReviewJim SlotekChristmas movies, Movies about teachers, Movies set in the '70s, The Holdovers, Alexander Payne, Paul Giamatti, Sideways, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Movies about damaged people
Freelance: John Cena/Alison Brie 'Action Rom-Com' Lacks Rom, Com and Pulse
By Chris Knight
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Five Minutes Is More Than Enough for this Fans-Only Horror Film
ReviewJim SlotekMovies based on video games, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Amusement park animatronics, Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard, Replacement directors, Emma Tammi, Chris Columbus
The Delinquents: Ramblingly Funny Argentinian Heist Movie is a Masterpiece of Slow Cinema
By Chris Knight
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The Killer: Slaying in True David Fincher Fashion
ReviewJim SlotekThe Killer, David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker, Luc Jacamon, Alexis Nolent, Tilda Swinton, Michael Fassbender, Action, Assassin stories, Hired guns, Drama
Dicks The Musical: Half-cocked Spoof Fails to Rise to the Occasion
ReviewJim SlotekDicks: The Musical, Larry Charles, TIFF 23, Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp, Meagan Mullally, Bowen Yang, Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane, Comedy, Sexual identity, The Parent Trap
Pain Hustlers: Finding the Funny in Fentanyl isn't What the Doctor Ordered
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekBased-in-fact comedy filmmaking, Adam-McKay, Pain Hustlers, David Yates, Wells Tower, Opioid crisis, Andy Garcia, Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Unprincipled pharma marketing, Catherine O'Hara
Anatomy of a Fall: Did He Jump or Did She Push?
ReviewJim SlotekAnatomy of a Fall, Palme d’Or at Cannes, TIFF 23, Justine Triet, Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado Graner, Samuel Theis, Swann Arlaud, Camille Rutherford, Antoine Reinartz, Drama, European, legal drama, Courtroom drama
The Persian Version: Nifty Bits Boost Cross-Cultural Mother-Daughter Conflict
ReviewJim SlotekMaryam Keshavarz, Niousha Noor, Layla Mohammadi, Mother-daughter, Cross Cultural, Comedy, Drama, LQBT, Sundance, The Persian Version
Killers of the Flower Moon: Scorsese at His Best Documents America at its Worst
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekKillers of The Flower Moon, Adaptation, David Grann, Eric Roth, Marin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tantoo Cardinal, Lily Gladstone, American, Based on a true story, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow
John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams: It Wouldn’t Be Halloween Without Him
Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicidal Person: Bloodless in the Best Way
By Chris Knight
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Lessons In Chemistry: Brie Larson Stars in Feminist Cooking Show Fable
ReviewJim SlotekLessons in Chemistry, Apple TV +, Lee Eisenberg, Bonnie Garmus, Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Alice Halsey, Adaptation, Period piece
