Nightbitch: Snarling at Motherhood with Amy Adams
ReviewJim SlotekNightbitch, Adaptation, Marielle Heller, Rachel Yoder, TIFF 24, Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Jessica Harper, Motherhood, Drama, Fantasy
Curl Power: These Young Athletes Have the Stones
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekCurl Power, TIFF 24, Josephine Anderson, Brooklyn Aleksic, Hannah Smeed, Savannah Miley, Amy Wheatcroft, Ashley Dezura, Sports films, coming of age, Teenagers, Women in film, Canadian
Hard Truths: A Tough-Watch Family Affair with the Difficult, the Damaged and the Resilient
ReviewJim SlotekMike Leigh movies, Dysfunctional families, Chronically difficult people, Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, Cinematographer Dick Pope, Tuwaine Barrett, Sophia Brown, Resilience versus Negativity
Presence: Steven Soderbergh's Intense Family Drama Enough to Spook the Dead
ReviewJim SlotekPresence, Steven Soderberg, TIFF 24, Lucy Lui, Chris Sullivan, Eddie Maday, West Mullholland, Callina Liang, Ghost story, Dysfunctional families
September 5: Docudrama Smartly Captures Complexities of Munich Massacre Coverage
By Karen Gordon
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Wolf Man: Leigh Whannell's Werewolf Tale More Yawn than Howl
The Last Showgirl: Pamela Anderson Shines in an Underwhelming Take on Dated Vegas
Nickel Boys: Harrowing Real Life Reform School Drama Breaks Visual Rules
ReviewJim SlotekRace-based reform school movie, Nickel Boys, Director/co-writer RaMell Ross, Artistic approaches to mainstream film, Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, Films told in p.o.v.., 1947’s Lady in the Lake, Cinematographer Jomo Fray, Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera - If At First You Don’t Succeed, Wait Seven Years and Try Again
By Chris Knight
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Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird - A Rock-Doc of Brotherly Love, Shot from Inside
ReviewJim SlotekRock documentaries, Nicolas Jack Davies’ Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Hardcore band At the Drive-In, Art rock ensemble The Mars Volta, Latino rockers, Maintaining friendships in a band, Church of Scientology, Chrissie Carnell-Bixler, Danny Masterson
The Room Next Door: Swinton and Moore in Almodóvar’s Exploration of Death by Design
Better Man: Robbie Williams Monkey-man Biopic Doesn’t Exactly Swing
ReviewJim SlotekBetter Man, TIFF 24, Biopic, Michael Gracey, Robbie Williams, Jonno Davies, Steve Pemberton, Damon Herriman, Raechelle Banno, Tom Budge, Music biopic
Young Werther: Goethe's Romantic-with-an-Iron-Whim Seems a Bit Stalkerish Today
ReviewJim SlotekMovies adapted from 18th Century novels, Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Director/writer José Lourenço, Douglas Booth, Menages a trois, Alison Pill, Patrick J. Adams, Iris Apatow, Jaouhar Ben Ayed
Saint-Pierre: Post-Doyle, the Next Best CBC Atlantic Crime Series Comes From (Not Far) Away
The Year in Film: What We Loved, Loathed… and What We’re Looking Forward To in 2025
By Original-Cin Staff
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ReviewJim SlotekMy Old Ass, Anora, Trap, Him, Sugarcane, The Six Triple Eight, P.T. Anderson, Will & Harper, Flow, Millers in Marriage, Ex-Husbands, The Bride!, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Reagan, Eephus, Superman, The Brutalist, The Substance, Year End 2024, Best and worst 2024, U Are The Universe, Venom: The Last Dance, The Dead Don’t Hurt, The Crow, Sasquatch Sunset, Babygirl, The Naked Gun, Wolf Man, The Running Man, 28 Years Later, A Complete Unknown, Sing Sing, Dune: Part Two, All We Imagine as Light, The Taste of Things, The End, Mickey 17
The Brutalist: Adrien Brody Shines in Epic Tale of Survival, Revival and Architecture
By Karen Gordon
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Nosferatu: Robert Eggers’ Vampire Update is Creepy but Needs More Madness
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekNosferatu, Horror, Adaptation, Robert Eggers, Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgärd, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, Emma Corrin, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Vampire
A Complete Unknown: Chalamet Successfully Channels Dylan - Artist, Lover & Enigma
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekMusic legend bioplcs, Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown, Dylan in New York, Timothée Chalamet, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Elle Fanning, Director James Mangold
What If …? Season 3: Marvel's Ongoing Punk of its Canon Revives Howard the Duck and More
ReviewJim SlotekThe Marvel Multiverse, What If …?, Alternative Marvel storylines, The Watcher, Jeffrey Wright, Kathryn Hahn, Kumail Nanjiani, Sebastian Stan, Howard the Duck, Samuel L. Jackson
Babygirl: Discretion is the Better Part of Adultery
