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CBC Radio is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Eli Glasner, Jackson Weaver, Jason Gorber, Rachel Ho, Radheyan Simonpillai, Vladimir Jean-Gilles.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Send Help (2026) Radheyan Simonpillai You're watching creative kismet. Raimi gets the most out of McAdams' performance. He knows how to frame her and how to make her feel fabulous while splashing buckets of blood at her. The two of them take this so far.
Posted Feb 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai One of the best and most daring films I got to see over the past year.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai Without some spectacular new vision or technological innovation, you’re left to really grapple with how stilted the drama can be and those nagging, troubling tropes borne from Avatar's white saviour narrative.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai You'd expect a Knives Out movie to be snarky about religion, but Wake Up Dead Man is surprisingly curious and gracious when asking what it means to hold on to your beliefs (and humanity), while so many extremely online are trying to impose theirs.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai You’re getting the best of both PTAs. One Battle After Another has all the filmmaking mastery of Paul Thomas Anderson's late-career style but is as accessible and entertaining as his earlier work, more so really.
Posted Sep 27, 2025  Edit critic review
A
One Battle After Another (2025) Jason Gorber The more you take seriously the politics of the film the more it falls apart, but that takes nothing away from the caliber of this exceptional film.
Posted Sep 27, 2025  Edit critic review
HIM (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai The filmmakers are not equipped to handle the conversation about concussions and race in the NFL but that didn't stop them from using that topicality to make this genre exercise (with marketing aesthetics) saleable.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai A bit too whispery and in love with its atmosphere, but Jesse Buckley’s heartwrenching performance during the heavy moments had a chorus of sobs ringing out in the theatre I saw it in (and had my pretty teary-eyed too).
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai Undoubtedly one of the year's best, It Was Just An Accident is yet another moving, prickly and hopeful morality tale from Panahi about people (and a society) trying to find a way forward while processing the trauma of the past.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai Emotionally unrelenting and distressing (could have easily slipped into misery porn if in the hands of someone like Darren Aronofsky) but Mary Bronstein makes room for humour, warmth and humanity, all of which is found in Byrne's incredible performance.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai Emily Blunt is the heavyweight performer delivering an electric charge to a somewhat dramatically flat answer to Raging Bull.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Ne Zha II (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai Dozens of characters come through, give you a minute-long monologue about their complicated backstory, and then go to battle. It can be exhausting. But the animation, and the world building, can be really spectacular.
Posted Aug 23, 2025  Edit critic review
KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai Trends collide together in this glittery cornucopia of a movie that hits all these sensations at once. This is a movie where every battle scene is presented like a music video. And that’s really fun, and catchy.
Posted Aug 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai The storytelling contraption teases, unfolds and ultimately hides how thin a lot of this actually is, how it’s not that committed to its characters, how it’s not that deep and pointed when it comes to it's themes and allegory around school shootings.
Posted Aug 09, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai But really, we’re all here for the race scenes. That’s where the money’s at in this movie. That’s the stuff. And those scenes don’t disappoint.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
A Working Man (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai Some of this can come off as reactionary in terms of how it appeals to a certain kind of demographic, who are very much rallying around a certain kind of masculinity.
Posted Mar 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Heart Eyes (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai Heart Eyes works because it commits to being a fun rom-com (despite the slasher mechanics at work). It also speaks to how, in this theatrical economy, the rom-com is under attack and fighting for it's survival.
Posted Feb 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Universal Language (2024) Eli Glasner Under this wonderfully deadpan droll comedy, Rankin who lost his mother before the pandemic, has made a film about community, identity and coming home.
Posted Feb 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Babygirl (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai Kidman is just so incredible in this, really making herself vulnerable as this ferocious high-powered CEO who craves being dominated. It’s all so scandalizing and thrilling.
Posted Dec 21, 2024  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai At best, The Brutalist is to The Master what Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia is to Nashville.
Posted Dec 18, 2024  Edit critic review
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai I’m taken by the audacity of it, that Todd Phillips is engaging with concerns from the first time out, and refusing to satisfy fan expectations. Too bad it's so dull.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai There's something comforting in seeing Tim Burton exorcising his demons, bringing everyone back together and conjuring up some of the warmth that was in the original.
Posted Sep 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Alien: Romulus (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai This being a movie about scavengers trying to pick through remnants from the first Alien movie is a great metaphor for what Alien: Romulus is up to.
Posted Aug 16, 2024  Edit critic review
May December (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Todd Haynes is a filmmaker who, on top of telling a story about vulnerable people and their digressions, tells the story about the predatory ways we consume those narratives, and the boundaries we cross when creating those narratives.
Posted Dec 11, 2023  Edit critic review
Love Actually (2003) Radheyan Simonpillai A cringe 10 for the price of one bulk holiday sale of the most well-worn rom-com tropes.
Posted Dec 11, 2023  Edit critic review
Elf (2003) Radheyan Simonpillai Elf's hopeful and uplifting response to post-9/11 cynicism is gentle, right up to a climax where the world is huddled around their television sets watching news reports trying to figure out what's that thing that crashed in New York City.
Posted Dec 11, 2023  Edit critic review
RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai At this scale, Beyonce’s showmanship and artistry is unparalleled.
Posted Dec 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Napoleon (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby give us a looney tunes answer to the deliciously toxic romance in Phantom Thread, dancing between darkly comical and devastating.
Posted Nov 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Sound of Freedom (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai A blandly competent thriller that finds an easy way into your feelings since it deals with child trafficking (a grave subject matter that has been tragically co-opted as a rallying cry for xenophobic, pro-Trump types).
Posted Jul 16, 2023  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Brings back some of the magic from DePalma's original (still the best Mission: Impossible) but now with the unrelenting action and scale of the latter movies.
Posted Jul 12, 2023  Edit critic review
4/4
This House (2022) Radheyan Simonpillai Charles' storytelling is daring, meditative and abstract, with one particularly adventurous and comical detour going back in time to the 1995 Quebec referendum.
Posted May 06, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai There are interesting ideas about transactional relationships and narrative evolution dancing around in here, with nods to Pretty Woman, Step Up and Victorian literature. But the gets lost in its own head and forgets to have fun with them.
Posted Feb 10, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Knock at the Cabin (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Shyamalan knows how to hold a close-up, move the camera and cut a scene in ways that really milk the tension and suspense. I cling to that in an era where the Marvel-ization of movies obliterated the demand for cinematic aesthetics.
Posted Feb 03, 2023  Edit critic review
2/4
Halftime (2022) Radheyan Simonpillai There is an irony here that Ms. “Jenny from the Block” is trying to win sympathy by saying “Despite all my riches, I don’t have an Oscar. Life is so unfair.”
Posted Nov 26, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
Black Adam (2022) Radheyan Simonpillai A fascinating mess.
Posted Oct 21, 2022  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Spencer (2021) Eli Glasner Impressionistic, imaginative and immersive - I loved it.
Posted Nov 07, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Promising Young Woman (2020) Eli Glasner Promising Young Woman isn't interested in processing trauma or really any shades of grey that don't fit the bubble gum colour scheme
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
One Night in Miami (2020) Eli Glasner This is a story about men who are seen as giants to their community but each have their own feet of clay.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
At Eternity's Gate (2018) Eli Glasner This is a point of view experience. Often we're looking out of Van Gogh's eyes or gazing at Dafoe's face. That amazing canvas of pain, anguish, and ecstasy.
Posted Nov 27, 2018  Edit critic review
3/5
Venom (2018) Eli Glasner Imagine if Rick Moranis had an alien in his head that sounded like Freddy Krueger and you start to see where the movie is going.
Posted Nov 02, 2018  Edit critic review
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