Movie Reviews

The Dead Don't Die: the zombies shuffle, so does the film

Movie Reviews

Undersized doc takes on '70s fashion giant Halston

Writer-director Frédéric Tcheng draws on a trove of archival material, as well as celebrity pals including Marisa Berenson and Liza Minnelli.

No Love, but lots of love for Beatles, Beach Boys, and Byrds in Echo in the Canyon

Jakob Dylan and friends remember a key period in LA music history.

Drugs, abuse, and an art hoax converge in There Are No Fakes

This barenaked lady is not for the feint of art.

Rupture 2019 review: Nightmare Cinema

Different sequencing might have benefited this uneven horror anthology.

Rupture 2019 review: Terror Nullius

A wild Ozsploitation collage scores points for aborigines, refugees, women, and the non-hetero-normative.

Rupture 2019 review: The Cannibal Club

Probably not a good film to watch before or after a steak dinner.

See Emily Dickinson play in the cheeky Wild Nights

The film succeeds in upending the conventional image of its subject as a dour spinster who got no pleasure out of life.

Ron Howard's doc Pavarotti restores the great man's reputation

This exhilarating two-hour portrait does him a genuine service.

Honor Swinton Byrne plays against real life mom Tilda in The Souvenir

... But the critically-lauded film gets trapped in its own nostalgia.

John Lithgow cheerfully preps for doomsday in The Tomorrow Man

It starts with an intriguing premise and a can’t-miss cast, but never decides what it wants to say.

Lavish Rocketman plays fast and loose with the Elton John story

Taron Egerton does a good job singing arrangements that diverge radically from the over-exposed originals.

Mumbai receives a love letter with Ritesh Batra's Photograph

An intriguing story benefits most from a deep sense of place.

First Nations dark history with the RCMP brought to light in Colten Boushie doc, Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up

Saskatoon filmmaker Tasha Hubbard captures both the specifics and the larger issues raised by this horrific incident.

Olivia Wilde's directorial debut gives us girls gone Booksmart

You could call it Supergood.

Sir looks authentically at love across class boundaries

Ratna (Tillotama Shome) is a savvy, if lightly educated, village girl whose prospects were further dimmed when her newlywed husband died when she was just 19.

I'm Going to Break Your Heart takes an intimate look at the marriage of Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida

With a song-nodding title even more determinedly bleak than Wilco’s I'm Going to Break Your Heart doc, the film likewise centres on musicians who know better how to get into trouble than to get out of it

Shakespeare’s examines himself in All Is True

Everything doesn’t smell fresh in the state of Denmark.

Walking on Water of explores the life and art of Christo

The film says a lot about the Bulgarian-born artist, turning 84 this summer.

Black Mother paints a gritty yet poetic portrait of Jamaica

A documentary by Khalik Allah. At the Cinematheque until May 24

Werner Herzog's Meeting Gorbachev traces the former Soviet leader's rise to power

The famous German's director's interests in human ambition and man’s appetite for destruction meet in this fascinating and unexpectedly breezy documentary.