The tender Canadian teen drama You Can Live Forever succeeds at telling a complex story of youthful infatuation where so many others that came before it have failed.
Well intentioned, but narratively and stylistically limp, writer-director Matt Ruskin’s crime drama Boston Strangler brings no new ideas of its own to the overcrowded true crime inspired genre.
Korean-Canadian filmmaker Anthony Shim’s masterful Riceboy Sleeps takes what could’ve been a humble story about the immigrant experience and deftly expands it to emotionally and narratively epic levels.
A lovingly crafted and emotionally resounding look at the ways loss can extend beyond a single family and impact an entire community, writer-director Clement Virgo’s stellar adaptation of David Chariandy’s …
Willem Dafoe gives a tremendous performance in Vasilis Katsoupis’ one-man-show survival thriller, Inside.
Heavy on atmosphere and tragedy, but disappointingly light on depth, the Canadian produced, Tibetan diaspora set drama Tenzin is basic and reductive, but not lacking in food for thought.
Although a bit of a let down when one considers the premise and strength of its most immediate predecessor in the long running horror franchise, Scream VI remains a bloody …
The Australian drama Blueback is equal parts earnest and frustrating. Everything about director Robert Connolly’s adaptation of a Tim Winston novella is well intentioned, looks nice, and is decently performed, …
For her heartfelt and perceptive debut feature, I Like Movies, Canadian writer-director Chandler Levack looks poignantly and critically at the healing and destructive nature of cinematic obsession.
Charming and respectable, but more than a tad cliched, director Bobby Farrelly’s basketball dramedy Champions coasts along nicely thanks to its air of general likability and some well drawn characters.