Film

Australian filmmaker Patrick Hughes knows how to film a large scale action sequence, but he also loves to have a good laugh while doing it. The director of the underrated …

The subtle, deliberate, and powerful Japanese animated feature In This Corner of the World (based on a manga by Fumiyo Kouno) starts as one type of film before slowly morphing …

A notable release for fans of Canadian history, public policy, and few others, the documentary Expo 67: Mission Impossible takes a briskly paced look back at one of the country’s …

Silly, but swaggering, Stephen Fung’s globetrotting, Chinese produced heist picture The Adventurers centers on one of those kinds of criminal organizations that only exist in movies. The crew pulling off …

With her second feature, This Time Tomorrow, Colombian-Canadian filmmaker Lina Rodriguez has created a warm, sometimes sobering look at the nature and art of familial communication. Whether they’re talking endlessly …

A passably entertaining bit of late summer fluff, the action comedy The Hitman’s Bodyguard is exactly what you probably think it’s going to be going in: two charismatic actors riffing …

Logan Lucky, director Steven Soderbergh first film after stepping away from the big screen for several years, is an odd duck. Tonally strange, it falls somewhere between a mainstream blockbuster …

Not since Austrian auteur Michael Haneke made the resolutely dour and incendiary Funny Games (twice) has there been a film as cheekily mislabelled as Josh and Benny Safdie’s relentless thriller …

The unnerving black comedy Ingrid Goes West proves that accomplished execution and performance can make a well trod storyline feel fresh and original. This tale of a social climbing stalker …

Annabelle: Creation is a major improvement over its dire, vaporous, laughably bad, but inexplicably profitable cash-in, spin-off predecessor. It’s made with more confidence and visual panache than the first film …