Festivals TIFF 2021: Jane Campion’s neo-western The Power of the Dog is a haunting study of masculinity and repressed desire By: Reyzando Nawara The great director Jane Campion and a stupendous cast dig deep into dread and melancholy in one of 2021's finest films.
Reviews “Da Bears” gags are the height of comedy compared to Chicago Party Aunt’s crummy jokes By: Shannon Campe Chicago Party Aunt, Netflix's new animated comedy, undercuts the strengths of its medium and its cast through sloppy, tired craft and writing.
Reviews Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho is crooked and kind-hearted By: Matt Cipolla Clint Eastwood's latest boasts a strong central performance in a grand step up from his recent works despite its rocky script.
Reviews Ordinary Joe takes a charming spin through alternate timelines By: Tim Stevens NBC's latest drama goes down easy despite some significant flaws.
Festivals TIFF: Unclenching the Fists doesn’t forget its humanity as it delves into its bleak tale By: Soham Gadre Cannes Un Certain Regard winner Unclenching the Fists is heavy, but strong performances and craft keep it from being a wallow in misery.
Festivals TIFF: All My Puny Sorrows clings to its source material to its significant detriment By: Soham Gadre All My Puny Sorrows, adapted from the novel of the same name, undermines strong performances by clinging too tightly to its source material.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Jagged tells you everything you oughta know about Alanis Morrissette By: Peter Sobczynski Alison Klayman's chronicle of the Canadian singer's rise to fame centers around her seminal 1995 album, and the trail it blazed for female artists.
Reviews The Circle’s third season sees its frothing drama flatten far too early By: Ashley Lara The Circle, Netflix's social media reality show, begins its third season with a blast that the rest of the show simply cannot match.
Reviews Kin’s tremendous cast makes a dance out of its familiar steps By: Michael Frank A familiar study of an Irish crime family, Kin gives a host of terrific actors a chance to shine, both individually and together.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Violet is an on-the-nose exploration of Hollywood anxiety By: Soham Gadre Olivia Munn's spirited performance elevates what otherwise feels like a moralistic, obvious self-help treatise on trauma and accountability.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Naomi Watts tries to outrun disaster in the horrendous Lakewood By: Peter Sobczynski Phillip Noyce and Naomi Watts team up for a preposterous, formulaic high-concept thriller that does nothing tasteful with its premise.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Titane is a fever dream best served cold By: Sarah Kurchak Julia Ducourneau's followup to her stunning debut Raw makes for brutal, beautiful, brilliant body horror.
Festivals TIFF: Mothering Sunday’s intimate sensuality and strong character work shine despite some rough structural work. Mothering Sunday sees star Odessa Young give a stupendous performance of a young woman's birth as a writer and passionate love.
Festivals TIFF: The Mad Women’s Ball is sadly far from a blitz The Mad Women's Ball, Melanie Laurent's adaptation of a novel about a young woman's incarceration in a cruel asylum, is disappointingly flat.
Reviews Come from Away’s warmth is undermined by key creative choices By: B.L. Panther Come from Away, a musical true story about a town that took in 38 planes in the wake of 9/11, undercuts its warmth with its creative choices.
Festivals TIFF: Listening to Kenny G is about as pleasantly inoffensive as his music By: Peter Sobczynski Penny Lane's profile on the smooth jazz superstar can't quite muster up enough energy to make its explorations of his notoriety (good and bad) sing.
Festivals TIFF: Dear Evan Hansen is a confounding adaptation of the stage musical By: Sarah Kurchak Ben Platt's age is the least of our problems in Stephen Chbosky's misguided adaptation of the already-misguided musical Dear Evan Hansen.
Reviews Malignant is a mess, but an entertaining mess By: Gena Radcliffe James Wan directs a gory collection of homages that somehow pulls together into a good time.
Reviews HBO’s Scenes From a Marriage tests the ties that bind By: Beau North Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain wring brutal truths from the complexities of matrimony in this update of the Ingmar Bergman classic.
Reviews Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. is stricken with a severe case of over-familiarity By: Lisa Laman Disney+'s latest revival is too beholden to the past for its own good.
Recap Ted Lasso “Man City” Recap: The dam breaks Nearly all plotlines move forward and we finally learn the pain Ted's concealing.