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Alison Gillmor

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A Private Life (2025) 81% 3/5 EDIT “By its anticlimactic conclusion, this would-be psychological thriller is held together only by the astonishing centrifugal force of star Jodie Foster.” – Winnipeg Free Press Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Honey Bunch (2025) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “Flawed but still fascinating, this Canadian horror flick is also, at times, an oddly sweet and sincere love story.” – Winnipeg Free Press Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “There’s dark humour and some sly, intriguing performances, but there’s also something missing. Dead Man’s Wire throws out heady ideas but never really follows them up.” – Winnipeg Free Press Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Resurrection can be unwieldy and opaque — and its biggest thematic ambitions might remain unrealized — but as it explores the ways cinema can transcend space and time, Bi’s super-meta movie is a stylistic and technical tour de force.” – Winnipeg Free Press Jan 10, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% 4.5/5 EDIT “Most sports flicks offer uplifting story arcs and characters you can root for. Marty Supreme goes its own wild way, with darkly funny performances and some brash, bravura filmmaking.” – Winnipeg Free Press Dec 30, 2025 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Director Derek Drymon and scripters Pam Brady and Matt Leiberman respect the basic Bikini Bottom fundamentals, but the plotting feels needlessly complicated and the gags can be repetitive.” – Winnipeg Free Press Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “From dirty folk tales to Dracula TikTok, the film is a crazed, meta mix of the profound and the puerile, the silly and the nasty.” – Winnipeg Free Press Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Merrily We Roll Along (2025) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “Groff is the conflicted centre of the story, but Radcliffe and Mendez both deliver dramatically and musically expressive portrayals, so this three-sided friendship feels beautifully balanced and emotionally real.” – Winnipeg Free Press Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Filmmaker Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig have pulled off a playful, theatrical, well-crafted entertainment, one that’s cleverly self-aware about its whodunit tropes while still thoroughly enjoying them.” – Winnipeg Free Press Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 2.5/5 EDIT “Nuremberg is not outright awful, but it’s not nearly as serious or thoughtful as it thinks it is. It’s the most frustrating kind of mediocre movie, one that is haunted by a sense it could have been — and should have been — much, much better.” – Winnipeg Free Press Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “As played by Thompson, Hedda remains intriguingly enigmatic right until the film’s last frame.” – Winnipeg Free Press Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 91% 5/5 EDIT “Scripter Kaplow is both emotionally generous and sharply insightful, and Linklater leans into the film’s tight parameters with craft and commitment.” – Winnipeg Free Press Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 77% 3.5/5 EDIT “The prison sequences are so good that the musical numbers increasingly feel like irritating interruptions, dragging down the film as a whole.” – Winnipeg Free Press Oct 17, 2025 Full Review John Candy: I Like Me (2025) 89% 3.5/5 EDIT “Hanks could have trusted more in the emotional effectiveness of these interviews. Instead, he tends to back them with a bombardment of quick-cut visual images, as if worried his viewers might get bored.” – Winnipeg Free Press Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% 2/5 EDIT “Examining images of masculinity — the hard man, the silent man, the solitary man — Anemone can’t quite decide whether it’s a deconstruction of these tropes or a deification.” – Winnipeg Free Press Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Think at Night (2023) 5/5 EDIT “Often enigmatic, even abstract, the film gradually loops in a loose kind of narrative, which then narrows into a wonderfully obsessive central paradox.” – Winnipeg Free Press Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 66% 2.5/5 EDIT “By the end of Eleanor the Great, Squibb has made us laugh. She’s made us cry. But this misguided movie can’t quite bring those two modes together.” – Winnipeg Free Press Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% 3/5 EDIT “While offering almost nothing new, this Grand Finale will provide reliable comfort viewing and a fitting farewell for Downton devotees.” – Winnipeg Free Press Sep 15, 2025 Full Review The Roses (2025) 64% 3.5/5 EDIT “If the Roses’ relationship is thorny, Colman and Cumberbatch are a perfect comic match, and the story’s ending, though different from the original, still manages to deliver a jolt of black humour.” – Winnipeg Free Press Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% 2.5/5 EDIT “The film ends up feeling a bit like Honey’s ideal sexual encounter: it’s dirty, fast and fun while it lasts, and then immediately forgotten.” – Winnipeg Free Press Aug 25, 2025 Full Review War of the Worlds (2025) 4% EDIT “It’s possessed by a particularly icky and exasperating and banal kind of badness, a quintessentially 2025 kind of badness. ” – Winnipeg Free Press Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) 4.5/5 EDIT “There are a few clunky moments from inexperienced cast members in minor roles, but the lead performances are remarkably assured.” – Winnipeg Free Press Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Freakier Friday (2025) 73% 3/5 EDIT “It’s overly busy and not particularly original, but it manages a sweet, hokey vibe and benefits from return performances — now even more lived-in — by Curtis and Lohan.” – Winnipeg Free Press Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% 3.5/5 EDIT “Though the story is slightly weakened by the perfunctory treatment of Tim’s family tragedy and by an overly abrupt and tied-up conclusion, this is a clever, capable debut feature.” – Winnipeg Free Press Aug 1, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “Bright, peppy and fun, this fresh take on the Fantastic Four — helmed by WandaVision director Matt Shakman — mostly succeeds.” – Winnipeg Free Press Jul 29, 2025 Full Review
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