Crisis: Drama About the Opioid Calamity Less Intense than Real Headlines
Review, PreviewJim SlotekCrisis, Drama, Opioid crisis, Nicholas Jarecki, Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Lily-Rose Depp, Michelle Rodriguez, Kid Cudi, fact-based drama
Sacrilege: Strong Female Characters get Wasted (Literally) in Suspense-less Horror
Review, PreviewJim SlotekSacrilege, Horror, David Creed, Tamaryn Payne, Emily Wyatt, Sian Abrams, Naomi Willow, Paganism, Nightmares, British, Thriller, Midsommar
Hawk and Rev Vampire Slayers: Proving Even Super Low-Budget Can be Super-Fun
Death of a Ladies’ Man: Nice Try but Alas, Only Leonard Cohen Gets to be Leonard Cohen
Praise for Cloris Leachman’s Outstanding Final Role in Jump, Darling
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekJump Darling, Cloris Leachman, Jayne Eastwood, Thomas Duplessie, Drag Queens, Price Edward County, Canadian movies, Phil Connell, Comedy, Drama, Family, Aging, Actors' final performances
My Salinger Year: Memoir-Based Drama about Catcher in the Rye Writer Blurry As its Subject
Review, PreviewJim SlotekMy Salinger Year, Memoir adaptation, Phillipe Falardeau, Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Canadian film, Tim Post
Radical - Exiting Extremism: Film series seeks answers to the question, 'Why are terrible political ideas so contagious?'
Review, PreviewJim SlotekRadical – Exiting Extremism film series, Wild Heart, Jan “Monchi” Gorkow, Goethe-Institut, Toronto Jewish Film Society, The Renegades — Long Way from Home, Mariam Nouri, Lisa Maria Hagen, Combat Girls, Alina Levshin, Films about the contagion of extremism, Jella Haase, David Wnendt, Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox
Land: Robin Wright Navigates Bereavement and Bears in Modest Directorial Debut
Coming 2 America: Warm and Indoors with Eddie Murphy… Isn’t That Enough?
Review, PreviewJim SlotekComing 2 America, Sequel, Comedy, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Craig Brewer, Leslie Jones, James Earl Jones, Black films, Jermaine Fowler
The Affair: Europudding in a Lovely Real-Life Terrarium
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Affair, Clae, Julius Sevcik, Hanna Alström, WWII, architecture, Ludwig Mies van de Rohe, Czech Republic, Nazis, Historical drama, Lesbian love story, Carice van Houten, Villa Tugendhat, adaptation, The Glass Room
Deragh Campbell Soars As a Woman on the Edge in Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 ft.
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekAnne at 13000 ft., Deragh Campbell, Kazik Radwanski, Lawrene Denkers, Matt Johnson, TIFF 2019, Canadian movies, Drama, Woman on the edge, Skydiving, Dorothea Pass
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Free Documentary Series a Midwinter Gift
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci Shine in Moving Drama Supernova
By Linda Barnard
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Cowboys: Tender Drama About Trans Kid Checks Boxes But Misses Wider Mark
I Blame Society: Mockumentary Better as Film Critique than As a Black Comedy
Toronto Black Film Festival: An eclectic collection of starkly different Black experiences, connecting the past to the present
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekToronto Black Film Festival, Black Lives Matter, Foster Boy, Shaquille O'Neal, Youssef Delara, Matthew Modine, Louis Gossett Jr., Shane Paul McGhie, Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me, John Lewis, Shirley Chisholm, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Stateless, Removal of Dominican Republic citizenship, Elsa Joubert, The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena, Clementine Mosimane, #LANDoftheBRAVEfilm, Elize de Wee, Dope Is Death, Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Paradise Cove: Movie of the Week-ish Thriller Not Thrilling (Movie of the Weak Maybe?)
A Glitch in the Matrix: Reality Not the Only Thing Put to the Test in Wonky Documentary
Falling: Viggo Mortensen’s Triple-Threat Family Drama Just Too Raw to Handle
By Karen Gordon
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekDrama, Falling, TIFF 2019, Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, Laura Linney, David Cronenberg, Toronto, Movies about dementia, Directorial debut
Rams: Aussie Remake of Brilliant Icelandic Sheep Drama Herds Its Own Distinct Flock
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekRams, remake, Australian, Icelandic, Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Jeremy Sims, Miranda Richardson, Sheep, Farmers
