An empowering and emotionally authentic depiction of a teenager put into a dire situation, British director Sarah Gavron’s Rocks is gutting and hopeful in equal measure.
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.
Nathalie Bibeau’s Canadian documentary The Walrus and the Whistleblower (which picked up one of the Audience Award prizes at Hot Docs earlier this year) is the perfect marriage of a …
Hillbilly Elegy, director Ron Howard’s latest and most blatant stab at dramatic Oscar glory in a decade, is an objectionable, polished, sanitized take on important subject matter
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Another electrifying, articulate, and entertaining effort from director David Fincher, Mank is both a cracking biopic about famed screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and something far more personal for the filmmaker.
A pleasingly strange comedy, writer-director Nicolas Bedos’ La Belle Epoque takes a somewhat familiar high concept and applies it to the story of two men who are growing older, but …
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Milos Forman’s multiple Oscar winning Amadeus is not only one of the best films made about professional jealousy and classical music, it’s also – rather uniquely – a young person’s …
A humdrum and predictable post-World War II melodrama, The Last Vermeer is far from a work of art.
Chaotic, borderline incoherent, and only showing fleeting moments of cheesy fun, the big budget Chinese action thriller Vanguard would be a lot more enjoyable if it didn’t take its ridiculousness …