Rose Plays Julie: Revenge Thriller Tackles Adoption/Identity Issue with Powerful Results
Wojnarowicz: Remembering a Voice of Protest and the New York AIDS-Generation Art Scene
Review, PreviewJim SlotekWojnarowicz, documentary, New York, New York art scene, 1980s, '80s AIDS epidemic, Chris McKim, Keith Haring, Fran Lebowitz, David Wojnarowicz
The Father: Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman in a multi-layered masterpiece about aging
ReviewJim SlotekFilms about aging and dementia, The Father, French play La Pere, Florian Zeller, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Christopher Hampton, On Golden Pond, Make Way for Tomorrow, Brad Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Awards season, Oscar Best Picture nominees
Food Club: Danish dramedy about seniors rediscovering life via Italian cooking has heart despite Hallmark moments
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekMovies about senior women's lives, Danish movies, Movies about Italian cooking, Food Club, Kirsten Olesen, Stina Ekblad, Kirsten Lehfeldt, Michele Venitucci, Anne-Marie Olesen, Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg
Enforcement: Muddled but Forceful Danish Cop Drama Echoes Current Issues in Throwback Style
Review, PreviewJim SlotekAnders Ølholm, Jacob Møller, Enforcement, Danish films, Cop drama, Immigrant experience, Police violence, Simon Sears, Jacob Lohmann, Tarek Zayat
Violation: Canadian thriller replaces the tawdry in the rape-revenge genre with bleak, arty atmosphere
ReviewJim SlotekRape-revenge thrillers, Promising Young Woman, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Violation, Best Canadian Feature Vancouver Film Critics Circle, Lars von Trier, Dusty Mancinelli, Obi Abili, Jesse LaVercombe, Roseanne Liang, Shadow in the Cloud, Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox
Above Suspicion: Reality-based, Kentucky fried noir is a curious failure and an overreach for Emilia Clarke
ReviewJim SlotekMovies set among Southern drug dealers, Above Suspicion, Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke, Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone, Phillip Noyce, Jack Huston, Johnny Knoxville, Ozark, Justified, Austin Hébert, Thora Birch, Sophie Lowe, Chris Gerolmo, Joe Sharkey
Crisis: Drama About the Opioid Calamity Less Intense than Real Headlines
Review, PreviewJim SlotekCrisis, Drama, Opioid crisis, Nicholas Jarecki, Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Lily-Rose Depp, Michelle Rodriguez, Kid Cudi, fact-based drama
F.T.A.: Fonda and Sutherland's '72 anti-USO show holds up as companion piece to today's Vietnam film flashbacks
Review, ViewsJim SlotekF.T.A., Jane Fonda, Anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the army, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Judas and the Black Messiah, Da Five Bloods, Donald Sutherland, Dalton Trumbo’s 1938 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun., Alan Myerson, The Committee, Holly Near, Rita Martinson, Pamela Donegan, Len Chandler, Francine Parker
Sacrilege: Strong Female Characters get Wasted (Literally) in Suspense-less Horror
Review, PreviewJim SlotekSacrilege, Horror, David Creed, Tamaryn Payne, Emily Wyatt, Sian Abrams, Naomi Willow, Paganism, Nightmares, British, Thriller, Midsommar
Hawk and Rev Vampire Slayers: Proving Even Super Low-Budget Can be Super-Fun
Come True: Unforgettable nightmare imagery in this 'dream-logic' twist on Elm Street
ReviewJim SlotekDream-based horror movies, Canadian horror movies, Come True, Anthony Scott Burns, Vincenzo Natali, Cube, Splice, Nightmare on Elm Street, Julia Sarah Stone, Christopher Heatherington, Landon Liboiron, Depictions of hell, Hieronymus Bosch
Death of a Ladies’ Man: Nice Try but Alas, Only Leonard Cohen Gets to be Leonard Cohen
Praise for Cloris Leachman’s Outstanding Final Role in Jump, Darling
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekJump Darling, Cloris Leachman, Jayne Eastwood, Thomas Duplessie, Drag Queens, Price Edward County, Canadian movies, Phil Connell, Comedy, Drama, Family, Aging, Actors' final performances
My Salinger Year: Memoir-Based Drama about Catcher in the Rye Writer Blurry As its Subject
Review, PreviewJim SlotekMy Salinger Year, Memoir adaptation, Phillipe Falardeau, Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Canadian film, Tim Post
Radical - Exiting Extremism: Film series seeks answers to the question, 'Why are terrible political ideas so contagious?'
Review, PreviewJim SlotekRadical – Exiting Extremism film series, Wild Heart, Jan “Monchi” Gorkow, Goethe-Institut, Toronto Jewish Film Society, The Renegades — Long Way from Home, Mariam Nouri, Lisa Maria Hagen, Combat Girls, Alina Levshin, Films about the contagion of extremism, Jella Haase, David Wnendt, Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox
Land: Robin Wright Navigates Bereavement and Bears in Modest Directorial Debut
Coming 2 America: Warm and Indoors with Eddie Murphy… Isn’t That Enough?
Review, PreviewJim SlotekComing 2 America, Sequel, Comedy, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Craig Brewer, Leslie Jones, James Earl Jones, Black films, Jermaine Fowler
No Visible Trauma: Hot Docs' free 'For Viola' screening series calls out what may be Canada's most lethal police force
The Affair: Europudding in a Lovely Real-Life Terrarium
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Affair, Clae, Julius Sevcik, Hanna Alström, WWII, architecture, Ludwig Mies van de Rohe, Czech Republic, Nazis, Historical drama, Lesbian love story, Carice van Houten, Villa Tugendhat, adaptation, The Glass Room
