Captain Marvel: Girls just wanna kill Skrulls
ReviewCaptain Marvel, Brie Larson, Marvel superhero films, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers, Women in previously male roles, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Hole, Garbage, No Doubt, S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, Samuel L. Jackson, Skrulls, Kree, Jude Law, Clark Gregg, Annette Bening
Ruben Brandt, Collector: A 66-year-old directs his first feature, and it's an animated hot mess of references
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewMilorad Krstic, Ruben Brandt Collector, Rubens, Rembrandt, Art theft movies, Animation, Iván Kamarás, Gabriella Hámori, The Hermitage, The Louvre, MOMA, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Romanian movies, First feature
Goalie: NHL Hall of Famer Terry Sawchuk's life told as painful, downhill spiral
ReviewHockey movies, Terry Sawchuk, Original Six, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Leafs 1967 Stanley Cup, Adriana Maggs, Mark O'Brien, Randall Maggs, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, Jack Adams, Kevin Pollak, Al Waxman, Ukrainian-Canadians, Willie O'Ree, Georgina Reilly
Climax: Gaspar Noé’s Extreme Study of Life Electrifying and Eerie... As Expected
Greta: Everybody in New York knows you don't talk to crazy old French women
ReviewGreta, Isabelle Huppert, Neil Jordan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Colm Feore, Maika Monroe, Stalker horror movies, Single White Female, Fatal Attraction, The Piano Teacher
Apollo 11: One giant leap in remembering our species' greatest voyage
ReviewApollo 11 documentary, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Todd Douglas Miller, IMAX, Chappaquiddick, Saturn V rocket, Walter Cronkite, Moon landing 50th anniversary, Vietnam War, Damien Chazelle, Lunar module, Command module
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - a series finale with so many dragons, you'll plotz
Fighting with My Family: A good-natured Brit-romp over the ropes of the WWE
ReviewFighting with My Family, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., WWE, Stephen Merchant, Ricky Gervais, Florence Pugh, Saraya-Jade Bevis, Paige, WWE Divas Championship, Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Jack Lowden, Pro wrestling, British working class, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Lady MacBeth, The Little Drummer Girl, AJ Lee
Never Look Away: The Oscar Foreign-Film nom no one is talking about (with good reason)
ReviewNever Look Away, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, The Tourist, The Lives of Others, Christian Petzold, Caleb Deschanel, Max Richter, Tom Schilling, Sebastian Kock, Cal Cohrs, Saskia Rosendahl, Nazi Degenerate Art Shows, Paula Beer, Oscar Best Foreign Language nominees, Oliver Masucci, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Corinna Belz
Trouble in the Garden: Family Discord Drama Is Timely but By-the-Numbers
Happy Death Day 2U: Sequel to mash-up of Scream and Groundhog day makes for smart horror - maybe too smart
Everybody Knows: Iranian Oscar winner directs Cruz and Bardem in richly-drawn Spanish missing child/village-with-secrets drama
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewAsghar Farhadi, Everybody Knows, A Separation, The Salesman, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Missing child drama, Toronto International Film Festival, Spanish Films, Spouses acting together
Alita: Battle Angel , Rodriguez/Cameron make a messy manga movie out of spare parts
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewAlita: Battle Angel, Yukito Kishiro, Gunnm, Robert Rodriguez, James Cameron, Manga, post-apocalypse, Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Mahershala Ali, Keean Johnson, Avatar
Isn’t It Romantic: Rom-Com Skewers Rom-Coms While Impersonating Rom-Com
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part: Considerably less awesome the second time around
ReviewThe Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Duplo, Chris Pratt, The Lego Movie, Elizabeth Banks, Everything Is Awesome, This Song is Gonna Get Stuck Inside Your Head, Bricksburg, Lego Batman, Will Arnett, Guardians of the Galaxy, Corporate tie-ins, Pop culture references
Original-Cin Q&A/Review: Is The Prodigy's Jackson Robert Scott the scariest 10-year-old actor ever?
Interview, ReviewThe Entity, It, Jackson Robert Scott, Colm Feore, Nicholas McCarthy, Horror movies with evil children, Child actors, Taylor Schilling, Stephen King, Locke & Key
What Men Want: Gender-Bending Reboot a Garish Gumbo of Clichés
Arctic: Sublime Survival Story Pits Mads Mikkelsen Against a Blustery World
Preview, ReviewMaria Thelma Smáradóttir, Joseph Trapanese, Tómas Örn Tómasson, Mads Mikkelsen, Joe Penna\, Survival Story, Arctic, Feature debut, Cannes
The quirky Cold Pursuit: Liam Neeson takes revenge (what else is new?) in REALLY cold blood
ReviewCold Pursuit, Liam Neeson, Northern Ireland, Colorado, Hans Petter Moland, In Order of Disappearance, Hollywood remakes, Taken, Micheal Richardson, Tom Bateman, Tom Jackson, Quirky crime comedy
The Last Resort: A moment in time when a kosher Miami exploded in colour and life
ReviewJim SlotekThe Last Resort, Miami Beach, Jewish American history, The Fountainbleu Hotel, The Rat Pack, Jackie Gleason, Andy Sweet, Gary Monroe, Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch, Edna Buchanan, Cuban "boat people", Cocaine
