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CTV's Your Morning is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Radheyan Simonpillai.

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Boxcutter (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai A vibrant movie mapping out the changing face of Toronto and the people, still struggling to hold on, who give it some soul. Like them, Boxcutter has plenty of soul. 
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Friendship (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai A clever movie for people who are comfortable seeing the most uncomfortable version of themselves in these characters and laughing at our own most embarrassing behaviour.
Posted May 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Lilo & Stitch (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai The young child who plays Lilo, Maia Kealoha, is adorable in a way that the animated Lilo couldn’t be. And she gives this movie a bit of the soul these remakes almost always lack.
Posted May 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai An exhausting victory lap that is too in awe of itself; in awe of what the Mission: Impossible movies have achieved (with good reason), struggling to push the storytelling forward while feeling stuck in the past with this sentimental look back.
Posted May 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Better Man (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai Doesn’t try to narrate the arc of Robbie Williams' story so much as ride the emotional waves of it.
Posted Jan 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai No other personalities in this movie can match that Gerard Butler energy.
Posted Jan 13, 2025  Edit critic review
A Complete Unknown (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai Fails to really justify its existence.
Posted Dec 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai The danger here is that Eggers could come off as too much of a film fan, too beholden to his source material, making a movie that’s more ornamental than it is relevant to a modern audience. But I think he pulls it off.
Posted Dec 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Dìdi (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai Wang's take on the debut filmmaker rite of passage as coming-of-age story stands out by embracing how awful hormonal teens are, challenging the audience to find a way to care for this character in the same way that he needs to learn to care for himself.
Posted Jul 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai A celebration of trash: as in it revels in Deadpool's brand of trashy humour, but also celebrates the discarded superheroes who we can't help but get sentimental about, following the same easy route to our feelings that Spider-Man: No Way Home took.
Posted Jul 26, 2024  Edit critic review
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai Lupita Nyong'o is playing more notes than we'd expect from the Quiet Place franchise. And the novelty of the franchise hasn't completely worn off. I still found myself listening to my own breath, trying not to trigger the monsters.
Posted Jun 28, 2024  Edit critic review
Fancy Dance (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai A potent, layered and beautiful heartache of a movie grappling with traumas but finding hope and even joy in the bond between these women, and the way they hold onto their culture and these ceremonies that have resisted and survived colonization.
Posted Jun 28, 2024  Edit critic review
I Am: Celine Dion (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai We all know we can listen to Celine Dion sing forever. What I learned from this doc is that we can also watch Celine Dion, a hilarious and animated personality, sort through her closet forever.
Posted Jun 21, 2024  Edit critic review
The Bikeriders (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai A fussed over, romanticized take on the Outlaws origin story that fails to be critical or even curious of how they engage with the world beyond their bubble.
Posted Jun 21, 2024  Edit critic review
I Used to be Funny (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai It’s really smart and lovely indie filmmaking that finds this delicate balance between the laughs and the big emotions, and using the laughs to cope with the big emotions
Posted Jun 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Inside Out 2 (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai I will never not appreciate the way these characters give us a fun visual language that makes it easy to talk through emotions with our kids. But the sequel doesn’t land the emotional wallop and the catharsis that the first movie did.
Posted Jun 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Babes (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai It's like Bridesmaid but about pregnancy, and all the stuff that comes out in a pregnancy, and I mean all the physical stuff and emotional stuff.
Posted May 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Hit Man (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Hit Man is a rom-com, a film noir, a Coen Brothers-like comic thriller. It’s nothing short of a miracle that it can be all those things
Posted May 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai Miller stages operatic action set pieces that will be rank as some of best sequences we will see all year. But you also have some drag mainly in terms of backstory we didn’t really need.
Posted May 24, 2024  Edit critic review
The Idea of You (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai There’s a lovely tension between making art that speaks to you and engineering content that appeals to the masses, reflected in so many interactions between these characters (their jobs, relationships) and the gaps between the novel and its adaptation.
Posted May 03, 2024  Edit critic review
I Don't Know Who You Are (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai M.H. Murray's stellar debut show us a Toronto that can feel like a cold and isolating place, especially for someone in crisis. Sounds dour, but ultimately it’s a tender film about finding warmth.
Posted May 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Challengers (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai Does this movie reveal anything about relationships, and the kind of competitiveness we engage in with the people we’re supposed to care for? No. But is it fun to watch sexy people toy with each other in such scandalous ways? Oh yeah.
Posted Apr 26, 2024  Edit critic review
The Greatest Hits (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai It's cute time-travelling gimmick complicates an otherwise thin romance entirely reliant on tropes.
Posted Apr 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Civil War (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai I’ve seen zombie movies engage in social issues and politics more rigorously than this.
Posted Apr 12, 2024  Edit critic review
This Is Me... Now: A Love Story (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai There are a couple good self-deprecating jokes about JLo’s tabloid love life that would have been welcome in a music video. But a whole movie built around that just feels like narcissism.
Posted Feb 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Bob Marley: One Love (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai The film recognizes the value in Marley's relationship to Rita, his impact during Jamaica's political crisis and his search for healing in music. But it never finds the rhythm when weaving those strands together and fails to do them justice.
Posted Feb 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Orion and the Dark (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai Turns into the Being John Malkovich of kids movies. Not saying it works. But I was certainly having more fun watching this unfold while my kids turned to me multiple times being like, “what is this??!!”
Posted Feb 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Argylle (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai If I was Taylor Swift, and I wrote Argylle, I too would deny the whole thing.
Posted Feb 09, 2024  Edit critic review
How to Have Sex (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Registers the tensions, the betrayals and the pain of feeling violated on a granular level.
Posted Feb 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Lisa Frankenstein (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai A mood board for 80s goth kids that's more in love with its premise than its characters.
Posted Feb 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Suncoast (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai Elevated by Laura Linney, the secret weapon behind so many of the Sundance-flavoured indies Suncoast feels inspired by.
Posted Feb 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Fitting In (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Warm, generous and vulnerable.
Posted Feb 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Four Daughters (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai A movie about the trauma of reliving these stories that is ultimately about the warmth and healing these narrators find in each other.
Posted Jan 26, 2024  Edit critic review
The Underdoggs (2024) Radheyan Simonpillai Not good but I love that 30 years after Snoop Dogg was deemed a terrible influence on me. I can share this movie casting him as a role model with my kids.
Posted Jan 26, 2024  Edit critic review
The Teachers' Lounge (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai A teacher on a tightrope thriller that is gripping, intense and moving.
Posted Jan 26, 2024  Edit critic review
The Zone of Interest (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai No other movie this year feels as airtight and explosive.
Posted Dec 29, 2023  Edit critic review
The Color Purple (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai An admirably ambitious retelling that just didn't work for me. The musical numbers just kept getting in the way of the emotions.
Posted Dec 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Ferrari (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai A lovingly told, endearingly flawed passion project from the Ferrari of filmmakers.
Posted Dec 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Feels like everyone just stopped trying a while ago and left this last whimper from the DCEU to float into theatres.
Posted Dec 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai I'm watching this wishing more franchise movies looked for visual grace notes the way Snyder does. At the same time, I’m watching this wishing someone gave Snyder script notes, saving us the tropes and operatic cheesiness he leans so heavily on.
Posted Dec 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Migration (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Mike White brings some of that sardonic White Lotus edge to yet another delightful family vacation story.
Posted Dec 22, 2023  Edit critic review
The Iron Claw (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Admirably restrained way, perhaps to a fault. While avoiding the tendency to milk every ounce of emotion or sensationalize the Von Erich's tragedy, Durkin also misses the opportunity to say anything meaningful about their story.
Posted Dec 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Poor Things (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai Lanthimos takes the social experiment from his breakthrough film Dogtooth in a more crowd-pleasing and comforting direction.
Posted Dec 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Maestro (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai I admired so many virtuosic moments without feeling an emotional connection to the material, and often found myself wondering who is sucking up all the oxygen in the room, Bernstein or the artist telling his story.
Posted Dec 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Wish (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai A lifeless, focus-grouped attempt at throwing back to the classics.
Posted Nov 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Dream Scenario (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai A hilariously discombobulating movie that also has the best Cage performance in years.
Posted Nov 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Saltburn (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai A risible and hollow Talented Mr. Ripley for the Euphoria generation.
Posted Nov 24, 2023  Edit critic review
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai I'm taken by its attempt at being the Lawrence of Arabia of YA movies, and its exploration of how tyranny is fuelled by self-preservation and how people condone state-sanctioned violence out of fear and desperation. That conversation really hits today.
Posted Nov 17, 2023  Edit critic review
The Marvels (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai It's unfair how much this movie leans on the genuinely joyous Iman Vellani to liven up the incomprehensible mess created by corporate filmmaking and multiverse-wide IP-fracking.
Posted Nov 10, 2023  Edit critic review
The Killer (2023) Radheyan Simonpillai From a filmmaker who tends to scrub the fingerprints off his own work, this is a brilliant take on how we are all disconnected and fading into anonymity doing soulless and impersonal jobs in the era of WeWork, Amazon, UberEats and streaming services.
Posted Oct 27, 2023  Edit critic review
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