T Categories Movies Reviews November 4, 2022 The Wonder doesn’t live up to its name An underwhelming Netflix offering is only somewhat elevated by Florence Pugh.
S Categories Reviews January 27, 2022 Sundance 2022: Nanny Stylish and engaging, the film nonetheless muddles its own voice too often.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Sundance 2022 January 22, 2022 Sundance 2022: 892 is a mawkish social-issue thriller that dances around its central issues A game cast can't save Abi Damaris Corbin's misguided, manipulative account of a real-life tragedy.
T Categories Movies Reviews December 28, 2021 The Humans finds familiar faces in disquieting places Camera work redeems the film adaptation's revisiting of common ground.
C Categories Reviews TV November 5, 2021 Colin in Black and White uses the athlete’s message to preach to the choir Who is this co-opting of the activist athlete's message for, exactly?
T Categories Movies Reviews October 20, 2021 The Electrical Life of Louis Wain provides spectacle, little substance Benedict Cumberbatch gives a big performance in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, a film that offers little insight into the artist's life.
T Categories Movies Reviews October 4, 2021 TIFF 2021: What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? Not as much as we might with a lighter touch Alexandre Koberidze's film is lovely and well-performed, but overly insistent on its epic status.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 22, 2021 TIFF 2021: The Survivor won’t be going for the belt anytime soon The Survivor wastes Ben Foster and Vicky Kreips in an overfamiliar prestige drama that botches its approach to the Holocaust.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 22, 2021 TIFF 2021: The frustrating Quickening has only one thing to recommend it Quickening star Arooj Azeem gives a breakout performance, but the rest of the film simply does not match her good work.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 22, 2021 TIFF 2021: As In Heaven is a divinely made hybrid of character study and nightmare With As in Heaven, Tea Lindeberg and star Flora Lindhal craft a stupendous study of a young woman's struggle with her faith amidst horror.
