For his feature length debut behind the camera, When You Finish Saving the World, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg spins an off-kilter, but well reasoned slice of life centred around two people …
Andrew Parker
Andrew Parker
Andrew Parker fell in love with film growing up across the street from a movie theatre. He began writing professionally about film at the age of fourteen, and has been following his passions ever since. His writing has been showcased at various online outlets, as well as in The Globe and Mail, BeatRoute, and NOW Magazine. If he's not watching something or reading something, he's probably sleeping.
Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari’s outstanding first feature, Shayda, is a work of tremendous intensity, warmth, paranoia, and resilience.
Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Liubyi’s artful documentary Iron Butterflies looks back to earlier days in their country’s fight against Russia to pay respect to victims of a large scale atrocity that …
Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze’s layered and unique romance Slow asks important, potentially unanswerable questions of its viewers.
A rousing and bombastic bit of apocalyptic disaster movie goodness, Chinese director and co-writer Frant Gwo’s The Wandering Earth II delivers spectacle by the truckload.
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Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb Review | Decades in the Making
While it would appeal most primarily to bookworms, writers, and political science enthusiasts, Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is a captivating deep dive into …
Although scattered in its approach, the concert film/biography/art experiment hybrid Ever Deadly is able to dive deeply enough into the soul and mind of the artist being profiled to remain …
Although it does have moments of genuine human drama throughout, director Florian Zeller’s The Son uses unsubtle emotional manipulation to get its points across.
A restrained, slow burning, and heart wrenching drama, Alice Diop’s first fictional feature, Saint Omer, asks the viewer to stare directly into its light and darkness without flinching.
Although it doesn’t entirely work, writer-director Avan Jogia’s first feature Door Mouse has both an earnestness and courage of conviction that makes it rather likeable.