Us: Jordan Peele's crazy horror fever-dream is ambitious, ambiguous, smart and maybe even commercial
ReviewJim SlotekUs, Jordan Peele, Get Out, Keegan-Michael Key, African-American actors, doppelgangers, Horror films, Hands Across America, Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Tim Heidecker, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Abels, Luniz, I Got 5 on It, The Beach Boys, Good Vibrations, NWA
An Audience of Chairs: Portrait of Mental Illness Half Succeeds in Penetrating the Mind
ReviewAn Audience of Chairs, Canadian movies, Deanne Foley, Carolina Bartczak, adaptation, Christopher Jacot, Rosemary House, Edie Inksetter, Peter McNeill, Gordon Rand
The Hummingbird Project: Ho-Hum Dramedy Stumbles on Head-Scratcher Premise
The Quietude: Sexually-charged Argentinian social drama is more soap than art
ReviewJim SlotekThe Quietude, Pablo Trapero, Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Argentinian films, Isidoro Tolcachir, Martina Gusman, Benenice Bejo, Joaquín Furriel, Edgar Ramirez, Graciela Borges, Family secrets, Argentinian dictatorship, Wealthy characters
What to watch (and what to skip) in the theatres this week
ReviewJim SlotekThe week's movies in theatres, Review recaps, Level 16, Danishka Esterhazy, Celina Martin, Katie Douglas, Woman at War, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Gloria Bell, John Turturro, Julianne Moore, Sebastián Lelio, Five Feet Apart, Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, young adult novels, To Dust, Matthew Broderick, Géza Röhrig, Denis Côté, Ghost Town Anthology, Captain Marvel, Lashana Lynch, Steven Spielberg, Netflix
Five Feet Apart: YA Weepie Hits Its Intended Targets, and Then Some
To Dust: Unorthodox “Buddy Movie" Tackles Life, Death, Religion With Sweetness And Dry Wit
ReviewJim SlotekTo Dust, Géza Rohrïg, Son of Saul, Matthew Broderick, Bern Cohen, Dybbuk, Orthodox Jews, Life and death, Jewish funereal tradition, Offbeat comedies, Shawn Snyder
Woman at War: A quirky feel-good movie about an Icelandic eco-warrior
ReviewJim SlotekIcelandic films, Woman at War, Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival, Benedikt Erlingsson, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Eco-terrorism, Jörundur Ragnarsson, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Ukrainians, Twins, Jodie Foster, Hollywood remakes of foreign films
Ghost Town Anthology: The Dead Reclaim A Dying Town In Denis Cote's Sombre Ghost-As-Metaphor Film
ReviewJim SlotekGhost Town Anthology, Denis Côté, Laurence Olivier, Répertoire des villes disparues, Robert Naylor, Larissa Corriveau, Diane Lavallée, Ghost story, The death of small towns, Quebecois films, Winter scenes, Henry James
Level 16: Smartly Scripted Dystopian Tale Like A Black Mirror/Handmaid's Tale Mashup
ReviewJim SlotekLevel 16, Suspiria, Dystopian stories, Danishka Esterhazy, Subjugation of women, Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Black Mirror, Handmaid's Tale, Canadian films
Invisible Essence: The Little Prince - How a book with big thoughts took hold in the minds of kids
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
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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
