The Life Ahead is a well conceived, outstandingly performed, visually compelling, and mostly predictable tale of two people from vastly different backgrounds realizing they have more in common than they …
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.
A lighthearted feel good movie about the immigrant experience and the process of letting go, Japanese-Polish filmmaker Mariko Bobrik’s first feature The Taste of Pho comes by its drama and …
A timely and universally resounding family drama, South Korean filmmaker Yoon Dan-bi’s first feature Moving On uniquely uses a pair of sibling perspectives to look at changing social attitudes and …
Dust and Ashes, the austere first feature drama from South Korean director Park Hee-Kwon, is built around a powerful, but ultimately underdeveloped concept.
A movie with a lot on its mind and not enough time and space to express it all, Mogul Mowgli is a deliberately off-balance drama bolstered by an electrifying leading …
2020 has left many of us pining for reunions with friends and family, but the borderline unbearable and distressingly unfunny star-studded comedy Dinner with Friends might make anyone unfortunate enough …
Hilarious, empathetic, and appropriately bittersweet, the queer, Irish non-rom-com Dating Amber is one of the bigger surprises in an otherwise dull and dreary year.
A low-budget, but effective and well acted World War II drama, Recon is built on standard trappings, but will likely appeal to fans of the military melodrama genre.
An uneven, but impassioned defense of renewable energy, Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip is a documentary made by someone who’s willing to defend what they believe in, but still hasn’t fully …
The unique and often rather dark Canadian comedy The Kid Detective is the best movie of its kind since Fletch.
