All the twists and carefully calculated double crosses in the world can’t save the con artist picture Sharper from being anything more than blandly passible.
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.
While the general foundation of Marlowe is solid, there isn’t much else of interest at in this otherwise messy, downplayed, and dull detective yarn.
Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest feature, One Fine Morning, is the filmmaker’s most heartfelt and mature work to date.
One’s enjoyment of the easily digestible rom-com Your Place or Mine will depend entirely on your tolerance for genre cliches.
Wrenching, powerful, timely, and insightful, director Nisha Pahuja’s documentary To Kill a Tiger is one of the best investigations into the nature of toxic masculinity in modern Indian society.
Narratively simple, but thematically complex, Knock at the Cabin is director and co-writer M. Night Syhamalan’s most impressive feat in quite some time.
Ryan White’s documentary Pamela, A Love Story tries to undo falsehoods and put into proper context the tragedies, scandals, and successes of one of the most misunderstood and underestimated celebrities …
Australian horror thriller Run Rabbit Run starts out as a pleasingly familiar creepy kid yarn, but it runs out of gas very quickly en route to becoming ploddingly tedious.
Disappointing, but well made, Sometimes I Think About Dying is built around a solid concept that’s never satisfyingly explored.
Nancy Schwartzman’s incendiary, but uneven documentary Victim/Suspect takes a deep dive into the various ways detectives and authorities in positions of power try to clear notoriously difficult to prosecute sexual …
