Category: Reviews
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In The Fade Review (Toronto International Film Festival)
Fatih Akin’s In The Fade is a montage of a mother’s pain and grief, an odyssey through chapter-like pieces — the beginning, middle and end of one woman’s personal destruction and how she comes to deal with it. Akin (The Cut) also looks at the rise of far-right extremism in Germany and the repercussions that… Read More >
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The Lego Ninjago Movie Review
In the same vein as its predecessors, The Lego Ninjago Movie is a fast-paced, heartwarming, and visually inventive animated feature that exceeds expectations. Read More >
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Woman Walks Ahead Review (Toronto International Film Festival)
A modest yet challenging look at a legendary warrior and the woman who resurrected his formidable spirit in time of great injustice — Woman Walks Ahead is a snippet of history crafted with unforgiving purity by director Susanna White (Our Kind of Traitor). From the nightmarish conditions experienced by the Sioux people to the violent… Read More >
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Borg/McEnroe Review
The life of Bjorn Borg has enough about it to sustain a feature length film, it’s just a shame we’d gone in expecting something entirely different. Read More >
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle Review
Sequels are hard. For every successful film there’s always talk of another entry, a follow-up installment that will explore the “mythology” of the created universe – whether super or not – and bring back all those things you loved and more. But the balancing act between bringing the familiar and the new together whilst still… Read More >
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Hostiles Review (Toronto International Film Festival)
Scott Cooper (Black Mass) returns to dark, brooding territory with Christian Bale vehicle, Hostiles. A Western so harrowing and bleak that it will leave you stone faced exhausted, struggling to get through the very first act, where things begin with a sprinkling of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly then quickly turn sinister. Bale… Read More >
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Brad’s Status Review
Brad’s Status isn’t afraid to tackle some uncomfortable situations and make its characters unlikable on occasion. Even when Brad is at his worst, though, Stiller’s subtle performance brings a real humanity to the character we can all see ourselves in. Read More >
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The Disaster Artist Review (Toronto International Film Festival)
Tommy Wiseau’s mystery has captivated the underbelly of pop culture for more than a decade, ever since he unleashed The Room on audiences in 2003. A twisted, undecipherable romantic drama, hailed as the “best worst movie” of all time, it has left a unique footprint in cinema, one that brings folks together, gets them laughing… Read More >
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The Shape of Water Review (Toronto International Film Festival)
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is a true labor of love for the filmmaker. We’ve seen him tackle mainstream blockbuster material with Pacific Rim and Hellboy, but this new, surreal love story has more in common with his adored 2006 film, Pan’s Labyrinth. It holds the same gentle dark fantasy backbone, using dense… Read More >
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Victoria and Abdul Review
Stephen Frears likes to study significant characters with stories to tell – but most of the time, we adopt the perspective of an outside source. Whether it be that of the journalist in Philomena and The Program, or the beleaguered other half of Florence Foster Jenkins – his films are proof that sometimes the very… Read More >
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