Movie Reviews

She's Out of My League: a date movie for guys who don't date

She's Out of My League: a date movie for guys who don't date

By John Lekich | March 12, 2010
She's Out of My League is designed to be the perfect date movie for guys who don’t actually date.
Action-packed Green Zone presents speculation as fact

Action-packed Green Zone presents speculation as fact

By Ron Yamauchi | March 12, 2010
Green Zone director Paul Greengrass really is a master of action. But there seems something unfair and cunning about applying the look of documentaries to docudramas.
Remember Me

Remember Me

By Janet Smith | March 11, 2010
Remember Me has so many low-key surprises, from its solid character studies to its deeper ideas about the meaning of life, that you might actually remember it for a while.
Prodigal Sons

Prodigal Sons

By Ken Eisner | March 11, 2010
Even if this riveting documentary holds back some key information for as long as it can, no review of Prodigal Sons can avoid the central thrust of writer-director Kimberly Reed’s multiple returns to her hometown of Helena, Montana.
Fish Tank

Fish Tank

By Ken Eisner | March 11, 2010
The first and most enduring thing you notice about Fish Tank is how beautiful it is.
Blood Into Wine

Blood Into Wine

By Ken Eisner | March 11, 2010
If you want to know what it takes to start your own vineyard, Blood Into Wine has a lot for you.
Our Family Wedding

Our Family Wedding

By Ken Eisner | March 11, 2010
The film is a painfully humourless parade of ethnic stereotypes in the guise of a can’t-we-all-just-get-along scenario.
Hallucinogenic madness turns to action in Alice in Wonderland

Hallucinogenic madness turns to action in Alice in Wonderland

By Patty Jones | March 4, 2010
if you’re thinking you’ll need “some kind of mushroom" to absorb the Tim Burton treatment of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian tale, leave your magic fungi in your sock drawer. The hallucinogens are on the screen, man.
A Prophet

A Prophet

By Mark Harris | March 4, 2010
On the evidence provided by his latest film, A Prophet, French filmmaker Jacques Audiard is no longer just very good but the very best at what he does.
The Ghost Writer

The Ghost Writer

By Ken Eisner | March 4, 2010
A tone of postmillennial cynicism stiffens the narrative spine of this beautifully old-fashioned paranoid thriller from Roman Polanski.
Frozen

Frozen

By Steve Newton | March 4, 2010
I knew it was a skiing-related horror flick, so I pictured an axe-wielding maniac lunging from behind trees and turning the slopes bright red with blood. Man, was I off the mark.
New York, I Love You

New York, I Love You

By Ken Eisner | March 4, 2010
As with its predecessor, Paris, je t’aime, from the same creator, New York, I Love You is a very uneven work.
Brooklyn's Finest

Brooklyn's Finest

By Ken Eisner | March 4, 2010
How much explanation do you need to know how an inner-city cop station works?
Last Train Home

Last Train Home

March 4, 2010
As documented in the powerful Last Train Home, 130 million Chinese now drift across their gigantic country for seasonal jobs that separate them from loved ones.
Cop Out cruises on lowbrow humour

Cop Out cruises on lowbrow humour

By John Lekich | February 26, 2010
Do we really need another buddy movie about two wise-cracking cops on the trail of an egomaniacal gangster? Probably not.