Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s long awaited 28 Years Later is an unexpected surprise, in both good and bad ways. But whether or not it connects with those who waited …
Everything goes wrong that could go wrong in the action-comedy Bride Hard, and I’m not talking about the on screen events that set its plot into motion. Devoid of anything …
Simon Ennis’ endearing documentary The Hobby: Tales from the Tabletop offers both hardcore board-gamers and the uninitiated a warm hearted overview of one of the world’s oldest and most beloved …
It’s very tempting to just say that the live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon – made by the same filmmaker who made the animated version – is …
Celine Song’s Materialists is a once in a lifetime sort of romance film that has studied, updated, and elevated the greats of the genre. Bittersweet, perceptive, swooning, sometimes hilarious, and …
Writer-director Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck is bound to be critically divisive, and the movie itself is okay with that. Self-aware of its own corniness and desire to be …
Filmmaker Reza Dahya’s first standalone feature Boxcutter is a creative drama steeped in artistic freedom and struggle. As its protagonists bounce around across a variety of different Toronto locations on …
The animated hybrid documentary Endless Cookie makes a lot of great points about the nature of extended family and Canada’s fraught relationship to indigenous peoples in the most relaxed, visually …
The Ritual is bad. It’s not bad in an interesting way that suggests it was ever on to something good in the first place, or like it was a production …
The animated anthology film Predator: Killer of Killers takes the sci-fi/horror franchise for a pleasantly brutal detour between proper live action entries. Coming between the sleeper streaming hit Prey (which …