Portrait of a Lady on Fire: More a smoulder, but a rich picture of two women's relationship in pre-Revolution France.
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekClaire Mathon, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Feu, Cannes Film Festival, Period same-sex romance, Queer Palm, Alliance of Women Film Journalists, César Awards, Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Valeria Golino, Pre-Revolutionary France, French films
Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in the thea
ReviewJim SlotekWeek's movies in review, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Margot Robbie, Cathy Yan, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ali Wong, Ewan McGregor, DC Comics, The Assistant, Harvey Weinstein, Julia Garner, Ozark, Kitty Green, Toxic workplaces, The Traitor, Marco Bellocchio, Tommaso Buscetta, Mafia informer, Alex Gibney, Citizen K, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Come To Daddy, Stephen McHattie
Birds of Prey: No deep meaning, just a fun, violent, '60s-Gothamesque commitment to the ridiculous
ReviewJim SlotekHarley Quinn, Christina Hodson, Bumblebee, Margot Robbie, Suicide Squad, David Ayer, Ewan McGregor, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Huntress, Chris Messina, Todd Phillips, Joker, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
The Traitor: Italian Master’s Fact-Based Mafia Drama Visually Rich but Narratively Middling
ReviewThe Traitor, TIFF 2019, Marco Bellochio, Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Candido, Fausto Russo Alesi, Nicola Cali, fact based drama, italian movies, Mafia, Revenge
Citizen K: Alex Gibney doc about the oligarch who took on Putin recycles too much before payoff
ReviewJim SlotekCitizen K, Alex Gibney, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room, Derk Sauer, Moscow Times, Boris Yeltsin, Yukos
The Assistant: Bad Boss and Besieged Junior Boost Powerful #MeToo-Era Drama
Come to Daddy: Stephen McHattie's weirdo bad-dad is a brief highlight in full-bore gore-fest
By Linda Barnard
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ReviewJim SlotekCome to Daddy, Elijah Wood, Ant Timpson, Stephen McHattie, Domestic horror, Turbo Kid, The Greasy Strangler, Toby Harvard, Martin Donovan, Michael Smiley, Violence and gore
Rabid: Remake of classic early Cronenberg horror is all homage, few new ideas
ReviewJim SlotekDavid Cronenberg, Rabid, The Soska sisters, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska:, Identical twin filmmakers, Horror movie reboots, American Mary, Tarantino’s Basterds, Dead Ringers, Laura Vandervoort
Gretel and Hansel: An odd fairy-tale take that loses its way after it's out of the woods
ReviewJim SlotekBrothers Grimm, Disney Silly Symphony, Gretel and Hansel., Oz Perkins, Anthony Perkins, Sophia Lillis, Sammy Leakey, Woodsman, Langley, Charles Babalola, Alice Krige, Star Trek: First Contact., Rob Hayes, Female-centric remakes
Rosie: Gripping Irish Drama Explores Homelessness From a Mother’s Perspective
The Rhythm Section: Blake Lively Revenge Thriller Sputters Long Before Stuff Blows Up Good
ReviewBlake Lively, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown, Female revenge movie, Thriller, action, drama, Reed Morano, adaptation, January opening, Raza Jaffrey
Man Proposes, God Disposes: Promising but unfulfilling Jarmusch-esque debut by Canadian director
ReviewJim SlotekMan Proposes, God Disposes, Polish/Brazilian/Canadian co-production, Mateusz Nedza, Bruna Massarelli, Daniel Leo, Paradise Theatre, iTunes movies, Apple Movies, Canadian feature debut, Maurício Zani, Unvanted pregnancy, Thomas à Kempis, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff
Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in the theatres
ReviewJim SlotekAnd The Birds Rained Down, Louise Archambault, Color Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft, Tommy Chong, Nicolas Cage, he Gentlemen, The Gentlemen, Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Eddie Marsan, Charlie Hunnam, The Last Full Measure, Christopher Plummer, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Fonda, Quezon’s Game
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
