And the Birds Rained Down: A touching love-among-the-elderly tale amid wildfire flames
ReviewJim SlotekAnd the Birds Rained Down, Louise Archambault, Jocelyne Saucier, TIFF Canada’s Top 10 films of 2019, Kenneth Welsh, Gilbert Sicotte, Rémy Girard, Andrée Lachapelle, Sexuality among the elderly, Éric Robidoux, Ève Landry, Leonard Cohen Bird on a Wire, Time by Tom Waits
Color Out of Space: Nic Cage, a chaotic, senseless script plus a meteor equals, um...
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekColor Out of Space., Nicolas Cage, Sci-fi horror, Richard Stanley, Hardware, Dust Devil, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meye, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Tommy Chong, Meteor crash plots
The Last Full Measure: Vietnam War Drama Uplifts a Real-Life Hero, Applauds America
ReviewThe Last Full Measure, Sebastian Stan, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Fonda, Diane Ladd, Christopher Plummer, Vietnam War, War movie, Jeremy Irvine, Todd Robinson, fact-based drama
The Gentlemen: Guy Ritchie's return to the gangster genre is more bad than bad-ass
ReviewJim SlotekThe Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie, British gangster films, Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam, Matthew McConaughey, Eddie Marsan, Jeremy Strong, Colin Farrell, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, RocknRolla
Quezon's Game: The inspiring tale of the "Oskar Schindler of the Philippines" is worth telling better than this
By Linda Barnard
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ReviewJim SlotekPhilippine President Manuel L. Quezon, Quezon's Game, Oskar Schindler, Steven Spielberg, Schindler’s List, Matthew Rosen, Janice Y. Perez, Dean Rosen, Raymond Bagatsing, Rachel Alejandro, Billy Ray Gallion, Alex Frieder, Dwight Eisenhower, David Bianco, Paul McNutt, Saving Jews during WWII, Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
Your Weekend Review: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres
By Original-Cin Staff
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ReviewDolittle, Clemency, Bad Boys For Life, What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael, Weekly Roundup, Robert Downey Jr., Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Pauline, TIFF 2019, Sundance
Clemency: Death penalty drama's conventional presentation is lifted by Alfre Woodard's angst
ReviewJim SlotekClemency, Death penalty dramas, Sundance, Just Mercy, Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek, Chinonye Chukwu, Wendell Pierce, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff
Bad Boys For Life: Reboot of Buddy Cop Dramedy Series All Filler, No Thriller
ReviewBad Boys For Life, Bad Boys, Sequel, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Cop Dramedy, buddy action movies, Michael Bay
Les Miserables: French Oscar-nom is not Victor Hugo's story, but a volatile tale of young immigrant gangs on the constant brink of breaking the peace
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekLes Misérables, Montfermeil, Ladj Ly, French suburban gangs, Victor Hugo, Paris riots of 1905, Alexis Manenti, Giordano Gederlini, Djibril Zonga, Damien Bonnard
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael Artfully Frames Famous New Yorker Film Critic
Dolittle: Third Time No Charm for Pointless Remake Neither Stars Nor CGI Can Save
ReviewDolittle, Remake, Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, Jim Broadbent, Michael Sheen, Jessie Buckley, Selena Gomez, John Cena, Steven Gaghan, Octavia Spencer, Marion Cotillard
Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres
By Original-Cin Staff
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Botero: Upbeat Doc on Hugely Successful Living Artist Less Successful than Him
By Karen Gordon
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Cunningham: A literally moving, 3-D intro to a dance legend you may not know but should
ReviewJim SlotekCunningham movie, Merce Cunningham, Dance legends, John Cage, Jasper Johns, Radiohead, Modern dance, Robert Swinston, Jennifer Goggans, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Martha Graham, Dance documentaries, 3-D documentaries
Like A Boss: Crude Schtick and Stupid Script Torpedo Female Empowerment Message
Underwater: Yet another horrific trip to the ocean bottom, with diminishing returns
ReviewJim SlotekUnderwater, DeepStar Six, Leviathan, The Meg, Alien, H.R. Giger, Ridley Scott, Kristen Stewart, T.J. Miller, Brian Duffield, Insurgent, William Eubank, Vincent Cassel, Underwater monster movies, Ocean floor horror films
Golda: A not-so-golden look back at the time in office of Israeli prime minister Golda Meir
ReviewJim SlotekGolda, Golda Meir, Middle East history, Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir, Shani Rozanes, Moshe Dayan, 1967 Six Day War, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, Israeli Black Panthers, Yom Kippur War, Mossad director Zvi Zamir
Uncut Gems: A two-hour anxiety attack, and a tour de force performance from Adam Sandler
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekUncut Gems, Adam Sandler, Idina Menze, Gangster noir, Dark comedy, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett, The Safdie brothers, Ronald Bronstein, Good Time, Robert Pattinson, Unlikable protagonists
Little Women: Greta Gerwig’s Snappy Telling of Classic Story Makes the Case for a Remake
ReviewLittle Women, greta gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Remake, Classic story, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern, Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep, Fiona Plugh, Bob Odenkirk
1917: Heart-Stopping Drama Conjures the Sorrows and Horrors of the Great War
