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Iron Man (1951) Herbert Whittaker This is a prize-ring story, and while not matching Champion or The Big Sleep, is certainly no B-product. And its biggest asset is Jeff Chandler, who fills the title role most convincingly, in personality, performance and appearance.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Ace in the Hole (1951) Herbert Whittaker A wicked, wicked jab at a love of sensationalism indulged below the border.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Melania (2026) Barry Hertz Ratner has accidentally delivered the ultimate chronicle of 21st-century excess and greed, a world of casual yet immense cruelty covered in flop sweat and gold glitter.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Arco (2025) Barry Hertz Your move, Pixar.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Sound of Falling (2025) Barry Hertz In just her second feature, Schilinski creates a true art-house epic, haunting and lyrical. What might have come off as an eyebrow-raising trick of construction -- shtick, almost -- is elevated by the director’s sincere commitment to the conceit.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Barry Hertz What’s more: All the bloody, emphatically R-rated chaos is also stitched together by genuinely warm and funny performances from its two leading slabs of beef.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Shelter (2026) Barry Hertz The details of even that threadbare Jason Bourne-again plot are both lazy and absurd, but we don't come to these kinds of movies for the narrative. And yet director Ric Roman Waugh simply cannot deliver the goods.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Jake Howell Why not crash with McAdams and O’Brien for some juicy table-turning power dynamics? Those who do will enjoy Raimi’s confident-as-ever direction, as the comic-horror maestro behind Drag Me to Hell brings to theatres another ideal date-night movie.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
My Bloody Valentine (1981) Jay Scott On its own second-hand level the product is moderately efficient.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025) J. Kelly Nestruck The big-screen spinoff is, surprisingly, quite charming, borrowing themes from the Toy Story franchise to explore the fear of growing up and that you may lose your ability to play and imagine along the way.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Twice Colonized (2023) J. Kelly Nestruck Twice Colonized’s team overcame its own challenges created by colonialism to make this the first pan-Arctic co-production between Inuit across borders. It’s reflective, mournful, inspiring.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Radheyan Simonpillai Mercy makes a damning case, not against the new technology that’s flooding our current reality with unreality, but against itself.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
North (1994) Christopher Harris It's almost eerie the way the movie keeps you waiting, and waiting, for the story to start.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The American President (1995) Rick Groen Think of it as the filmic equivalent of the Clinton administration -- an image-conscious baby boomer that eagerly curries favour, waffles shamelessly on every major issue, and dearly wants to be all things to all people. To no avail, of course.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Jay Scott It does what it desires to do - it suspensefully squeezes the sweat out of the pores - but the salty stench it leaves behind in the persona of Annie Wilkes is a residue that transcends its intentions.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Honey Bunch (2025) Barry Hertz Glowicki and Petrie are immensely committed and often fearless performers -- so much so that you can see them frequently bouncing against the constraints of the story surrounding them.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) Barry Hertz A corrupt-cop drama that is mostly aware about its B-minus-movie aspirations, Carnahan’s film is a thoroughly enjoyable if not particularly original mashup of Training Day, Cop Land, Triple 9 and a dozen-plus other films.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Herbert Whittaker This director, Robert Wise, contents himself with a prosaic statement of immobility.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Saffron Maeve The intensity of the situation and Tony’s capacity to pull the trigger are unconvincing; Skarsgard’s looks are the only thing that can kill.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Radheyan Simonpillai The Bone Temple doesn’t quite live up to the earlier film’s promise. At best, it’s an ambitious and compelling enough staging ground biding time, with cruel violence more stomach-turning than ever, as it sets up the already-in-the-works final chapter.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
The Chronology of Water (2025) Saffron Maeve In a sea of actors-turned-directors who contrive drab, visually unremarkable projects, Stewart’s tangly and deeply unsettling character study is almost beyond comprehension.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Barry Hertz There is more than a flicker of wry wit to Fastvold’s directorial choices, with the film occasionally slipping into a Monty Python-like sensibility, especially during the eccentrically choreographed dance sequences.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) Roly Young Even the most die-hard Boyer rooters will have to admit that this time the producers have hit the jackpot because Boyer is even more gripping and magnificent as the villain.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Jay Scott Stand By Me is not a "masterpiece," but it is an evocative and cheerily amusing movie.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Roly Young "Out of the Past" is one of those childish films they label adult entertainment which is pure flattery.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Herbert Whittaker What Disney has done, in addition to creating another of his beautifully colored inventions for cinema, is to reduce Alice once more to the nursery of the day. The more adult Alice will survive the shock.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mother and the Bear (2024) Barry Hertz While not everything clicks in The Mother and the Bear, the film will keep you warm enough during the dark days of winter.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Choral (2025) Barry Hertz A period piece of insignificant impact and distressingly drippy intentions, its filmmakers so concerned with their project being considered handsome and respectable that they fail to spark any emotional response beyond the most passive of shoulder shrugs.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Jay Scott Depressing...
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) Jay Scott The Princess Bride itself is somewhat less than wondrous. Good it is, but less than very, very good it also is, and it cannot be called, not even by the stretch of an imagination as rubbery as the imagination of William of Goldman, a work of magic.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
A Few Good Men (1992) Jay Scott Until now, Reiner's films have at least been notable for energy, vulgar though that energy may have been in many cases. Why, then, would he want to take on this snoozer?
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Globe and Mail Staff Reiner shows his usual light touch and the result is 100-proof charm, potent enough to whisk us over the movie's trouble spots.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Barry Hertz Park’s messaging might not exactly be subtle, but the director once again proves himself to be both a master when it comes to fusing one tone to the next.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Barry Hertz Unfortunately, Gormican has completely defanged the central gag. The punchlines don’t land, the action is sloppy, and every actor looks as lost as poor Owen Wilson seemed to be in the original film.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025) Amber Dowling It’s an honest and chuckle-worthy hour full of signature Nanjiani humour and deadpan delivery.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Breakdown: 1975 (2025) Amber Dowling It’s an interesting premise on its own, but with stars such as Albert Brooks, Ellen Burstyn, Jodie Foster and Martin Scorsese weighing it, it’s a must-watch for cinephiles and pop-culture lovers alike.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Hook (1991) Jay Scott Spielberg does to us precisely what he does to Peter Banning -- he engineers a return to our childhoods, to experiences both pleasurable and painful.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Barry Hertz Chalamet pulls off the near-impossible, delivering a colossal performance of cockiness and vulnerability, a Wile E. Coyote meets Sammy Glick.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Barry Hertz Nelson doesn’t go nearly far enough in subverting the twinned formulas he is playing with, turning the whole affair into a gory, soggy slog with few surprises and little energy.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Is This Thing On? (2025) Barry Hertz None of the angsty drama (or the more outright comedic bits) feels cliched or sanitized, with Cooper -- who co-wrote the film with Arnett and his long-time creative partner Mark Chappell -- smart enough to keep things just on the razor’s edge of heavy.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Barry Hertz Getting the two performers into the same room was a genius (if accidentally timed) move on the part of The Housemaid’s producers. But the friction between the pair can only carry a piece of airport-bookstand fluff so far.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Barry Hertz While The Way of Water’s 192 minutes didn’t so much breeze by as they gently floated, the crushing heft of Fire and Ash can be felt far too often, pushing the entire endeavour past the brink of exhaustion.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Jay Scott [Christine] loses compression toward the end and the grumpy old thing finally sputters to a stall -- gets flattened, poops out.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Barry Hertz [Director Ira Sachs'] choice to keep them (mostly) bound inside of Hujar’s apartment pushes the audience to hang on every line reading, every syllable. It can be slow going, certainly, but it’s always rewarding. Pull up a chair, stay a while.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2025) Barry Hertz The deeper that Resurrection goes, the more that Gan’s vision delicately, meticulously, and, of course, slowly envelopes you, no matter your level of comprehension.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Radheyan Simonpillai Ella McCay, the movie, feels like we’re being bear hugged by a lovable, slightly boozy old grand-uncle who genuinely hopes to find common ground with a new generation, but also can’t help being a little patronizing.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Chris Dafoe This torpedo turns out to be a dud -- it swerves at the last minute, missing its target and exploding ineffectually in a flash of fantasy and fair-tale schtick.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Barry Hertz Fiery and relentlessly paced (its 158 minutes don’t contain a minute of bloat), the political thriller pivoting around themes of paranoia and resistance feels perfectly tuned to the moment.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Barry Hertz Unfortunately, those sharper-edged bits and pieces eventually become subsumed by a drippy sentimentality that sticks to you like the crisp white suit that Clooney is often wrapped inside of.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) Barry Hertz In so many ways, The Whole Bloody Affair is the movie-est movie to ever be movie’d, with Tarantino generously trepanning his skull wide open in order to provide everyone a direct portal inside his cinema-addled brain.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
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