Miss Bala: Female-Led Action/Thriller Needs More Clarity... and Maybe Shorter Heels
Miniature: A very tiny documentary with big ideas
ReviewJim SlotekMiniature, Documentary, Dioramas, Dollhouses, Outsider art, Willard Wigan, Jimmy Cauty, The KLF, Tony Coleman, Margaret Meagher, Mighty Uke, Aftermath Dislocation Principle, Hypotopia, Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg
Into Invisible Light: The unbearable lack-of-lightness of being a rich widow
ReviewJim SlotekInto Invisible Light, Shelagh Carter, Jennifer Dale, Peter Keleghan, Stuart Hughes, Thomas Grey, Canadian movies, Middle-aged romances, Ousama Rawi, Martha Henry
Wonders of the Sea 3D: Eco-eye candy for kids from the Cousteaus and Schwarzenegger with lots to see and banalities to say
ReviewJim SlotekWonders of the Sea 3D, Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Celine Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ocean activism, Endangered marine life, Children's documenaries, The Sea of Cortez, The Bahamas, Maisy Kay
This Mountain Life: Doc Goes Very High But Not Very Deep
The Image Book: Oh So Meaningful But… Um… So Long… And… Um…
Racetime (La Course des Tuques): Quebec Animated Kids’ Film a Bumpy Ride
Serenity: Star-Laden Thriller Tanks Despite High-Minded Concept
The Kid Who Would Be King: Kiddo Spin on King Arthur Tale Sweet, Sassy but So-So
ReviewJoe Cornish, The Kid Who Would Be King, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Dean Chaumoo, Rebecca Ferguson, Angus Imrie, Kid flicks, King Arthur, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris
Cold War: Oscar-Nominated Polish Period Romance Recalls Hollywood of Yesteryear
ReviewJim SlotekCold War, Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski., Janusz Glowacki, Lukasz Zal, Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Soviet era Poland, Polish films, Classic Hollywood romances, Roma, Black and white art films, 2019 Oscar nominated films
Hale County This Morning, This Evening: Everyday black lives combine to form art that matters
ReviewJim SlotekAfrican-American documentaries, RaMell Ross, Hale County This Morning, Hale County, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Terrence Malick, Brown University, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Bert Williams, Lime Kiln Club Field Day
Glass: M. Night Shyamalan has a LOT to say about super-heroes, though it seems like it's all been said
ReviewJim SlotekGlass, M. Night Shyamalan, Unbreakable, Split, James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Multiple personality disorder, Comic books, superheroes, Super powers, Sarah Paulson, Spencer Treat Clark, Anya Taylor-Joy
Stan & Ollie: A touching portrait of a professional "marriage" buoyed by talent and chemistry
ReviewJim SlotekStan & Ollie, Famous duos, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jon S. Baird, Frenemies, Hal Roach, Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda
Replicas: Silly Sci-Fi Thriller a Lesson in How Not to Spin A Tale
ReviewReplicas, Thriller, Sci-fi, Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch, John Ortiz, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Marie Kondo, January opening
The Upside: Starry Dramedy A Textbook Case of the Trouble With Remakes
Review(Julianna Margulies, Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, Nicole Kidman, The Upside, remakes, French, TIFF 2017, Neil Burger, Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
Destroyer: Nicole Kidman Vehicle Recasts Revenge as Good for the Gander
Capernaum: An Arabic-language Oliver Twist, but even more depressingly set in Beirut
ReviewJim SlotekCapernaum, Nadine Labaki, Cannes Jury Prize, Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Zain Al Rafeea, child marriage, Syrian refugees, Beirut, human trafficking, Undocumented workers
Original-Cin's Best & Worst of 2018: What We Enjoyed... And What We Endured
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Views, ReviewJim SlotekZama, Burning, The Rider, Welcome to Marwen, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Show Dogs, Blindspotting, Eighth Grade, Green Book, Robin Hood, Nobody's Fool, Deadpool 2, The Death of Stalin, A Quiet Place, Hearts Beat Loud, The Happytime Murders, The Darkest Minds, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, TIFF 2018, Little Italy, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, Night School, Shoplifters, Roma, First Man, Best of 2018, Worst of 2018
Lifechanger: A well-constructed tragic 'shape-shifter' thriller and doomed love story overcomes its flaws
On the Basis of Sex: RBG Biopic Delves Into Back Story of Contemporary Folk Hero
