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Julia Cooper

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The Divine Order (2017) 85% 3/4 EDIT “A film that cleverly navigates the contentions and tempers of women's rights.” – Globe and Mail Nov 3, 2017 Full Review Beach Rats (2017) 84% 4/4 EDIT “Dickinson is perfectly cast and the film's mix of skill gives it a gritty realism that heightens the emotional pitch.” – Globe and Mail Sep 22, 2017 Full Review Meditation Park (2017) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “A bit too hammy at moments, Meditation Park is otherwise a complex film that hews with tenderness to Asian stereotypes in order to reflect back their often-obscured depths.” – Globe and Mail Sep 11, 2017 Full Review Home Again (2017) 33% 3/4 EDIT “As the credits roll, it can be said that Home Again is a tight, witty script from a first-time director with a long list of hits ahead of her - and, of course, the golden age of Hollywood dynasties lighting her way.” – Globe and Mail Sep 8, 2017 Full Review Novitiate (2017) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Novitiate doesn't tell a straightforward story of love and sacrifice, of faith and its crises. [Margaret] Betts's film is ritualistic and enthralling, with a complex feminism woven into its cloth, and it's something of a blessing.” – Globe and Mail Sep 8, 2017 Full Review Tulip Fever (2017) 10% 2.5/4 EDIT “It is your run-of-the mill period drama that plays it safe - certainly not daring enough to offend or to truly captivate.” – Globe and Mail Sep 1, 2017 Full Review Annabelle: Creation (2017) 71% 1.5/4 EDIT “Sandberg does nothing to update his horror film from some of the genre's more damaging stereotypes.” – Globe and Mail Aug 11, 2017 Full Review Girls Trip (2017) 91% 4/4 EDIT “There is no raunchier, more raucous, filthy and truly crass movie out this summer than Girls Trip - and I loved every minute of it.” – Globe and Mail Jul 22, 2017 Full Review The Beguiled (2017) 79% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Beguiled is Coppola's bloodiest, most visceral movie to date, and it is also one of her best.” – Globe and Mail Jun 30, 2017 Full Review The Bad Batch (2016) 45% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's a trippy, sun-scorched apocalyptic horror film with a rom-com finish that gets as bloody, visceral and cannibalistic as its U.S. R rating will allow.” – Globe and Mail Jun 23, 2017 Full Review Everything, Everything (2017) 45% 3.5/4 EDIT “Engrossing and not too sugar-sweet, Meghie's movie is slightly paranoid, surprisingly fantastical and superb at translating the overwhelming stupor of first love with big, bold shots and a banging soundtrack.” – Globe and Mail May 19, 2017 Full Review Unforgettable (2017) 29% 2/4 EDIT “Here, the dizzying pairing of slice-and-splatter violence with the quiet horror of abusive relationships doesn't add up - it's used, unforgivably, as a gimmick.” – Globe and Mail Apr 21, 2017 Full Review Obit. (2016) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “Documentarian Vanessa Gould leads her viewer by the hand through the day in a life of the darling weirdos at The New York Times obituary desk.” – Globe and Mail Mar 31, 2017 Full Review The Last Word (2017) 40% 1/4 EDIT “I hope that in the name of her decades-spanning career and six Academy Award nominations (plus one win), we might do MacLaine the small courtesy of forgetting that this pedestrian and dull comedy ever happened.” – Globe and Mail Mar 10, 2017 Full Review xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) 46% 2/4 EDIT “All the one-line zingers in the world can't save Return of Xander Cage from its own moral confusion.” – Globe and Mail Jan 20, 2017 Full Review Mostly Sunny (2016) 38% 2/4 EDIT “Mehta takes his audience behind the curtain of Leone's strategic brand-building - from commercials, to private events, to film sets - yet rarely ever delves deeper than the veneer of her glossy celebrity.” – Globe and Mail Jan 13, 2017 Full Review Antibirth (2016) 68% 2.5/4 EDIT “Lovers of horror will likely be into this fertile homage and will appreciate Perez's new takes on horror's tried-and-true tropes and plot twists.” – Globe and Mail Dec 2, 2016 Full Review Jean of the Joneses (2016) 75% 3.5/4 EDIT “Takes its cues from both Woody Allen's self-indulgent worlds and the literary panache of Zadie Smith, but remains original in its darkly funny perspective ...” – Globe and Mail Nov 11, 2016 Full Review Keeping Up With the Joneses (2016) 20% 1.5/4 EDIT “This story of the spies next door is wooden and slow-paced with enough intrigue to lull a toddler to sleep.” – Globe and Mail Oct 21, 2016 Full Review Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) 78% 3/4 EDIT “I'd like to raise a glass of Chardonnay and toast Bridget Jones's Baby on its (mostly) hilarious, and long-anticipated, homecoming.” – Globe and Mail Sep 16, 2016 Full Review Bad Moms (2016) 59% 3/4 EDIT “Although all these actors prove the shrewd casting choices of Bad Moms, it is Hahn who makes this unassuming summer blockbuster something close to stellar.” – Globe and Mail Jul 29, 2016 Full Review Me Before You (2016) 55% 1/4 EDIT “This film cost $20-million to make and, at its heart, is a glossy, live-action Beauty and the Beast, with a quadriplegic in the role of non-human animal.” – Globe and Mail Jun 3, 2016 Full Review The Clan (2015) 85% 3.5/4 EDIT “Even if your knowledge of Argentina's political history is wanting, The Clan is still worth seeing.” – Globe and Mail Mar 25, 2016 Full Review The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016) 11% 1/4 EDIT “The movie desperately wants a sleek and goth-inspired aesthetic in the spirit of Rick Owens. What it ends up with is more of an unfortunate Anne Klein-meets-The Jetsons reality.” – Globe and Mail Mar 18, 2016 Full Review Chi-Raq (2015) 82% 3/4 EDIT “Lee's film is worth seeing for its bombastic excess and camo-clad dance scenes. But if you're looking for tactful visual responses to the Black Lives Matter movement and the effects of police brutality, this isn't it.” – Globe and Mail Mar 18, 2016 Full Review
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