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Since 2017: Career film critics continuing the conversation

Wonder: Saccharine Family Drama Saved By Merciful Jolt of Quirk

By Liam Lacey

ReviewNovember 17, 2017Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Family drama, young adult novels

Mudbound: Penetrating Period Drama Explores Enduring Racism in America

By Kim Hughes

ReviewNovember 17, 2017drama, Period piece films, Carey Mulligan, Netflix, WWII, Jonathan Banks

Blade of the Immortal: Japanese Genre King Puts Zombie on Overdrive

By Liam Lacey

ReviewNovember 17, 2017Zombie, Japanese films, genre film, Takashi Miike

Paradise? In a Nazi concentration camp?

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 17, 2017Venice Silver Lion Award, World War II, Period romance, Andrey Konchalovskiy

Considering Love And Other Magic is dark(ish) but ultimately warm family fare

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 16, 2017Eric McCormack, Canadian film, Family film, Sheila McCarthy, Jet Boy, Dave Schultz

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: TIFF Audience Fave Scores and Soars

By Kim Hughes

ReviewNovember 16, 2017Comedy-drama, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, TIFF 2017, awards contender

Q&A: Joachim Trier on Freud, Jung, punk roots and his supernatural thriller Thelma

By Karen Gordon

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 16, 2017Supernatural, Norwegian movies, Joachim Trier, Foreign language Oscar

Original-Cin Q&A: Two movies in, Jacob Tremblay's still a small Wonder

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 15, 2017Jacob Tremblay, Julia Roberts, Drama, Facial deformity, Owen Wilson, R.J. Palacio

Justice League: Like Dumb and Dumber but with Cooler Threads

By Kim Hughes

ReviewNovember 15, 2017DC, Comics, Batman, Superman, superheroes, supervillain, Wonder Woman

Stegman Is Dead is alive with criminal idiocy

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 15, 2017Crime comedy, Tarantino-esque, Canadian, Michael Ironside, Michael Eklund, Bernice Lui

Thelma a more sexualized Carrie, with Scandinavian melancholy

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 15, 2017Psychological thriller, horror, Foreign-language Oscar, Joachim Trier, Norwegian movies, Carrie

Interview: 'Socialite-turned-filmmaker' Maggie Betts ponders 'marriage to God' in Novitiate

By Liam Lacey

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 13, 2017Drama, Religion, Catholicism, Melissa Leo, Margaret Qualley

Murder on the Orient Express: Straight Retelling of Classic Grinds On (and On)

By Kim Hughes

ReviewNovember 10, 2017Drama, Agatha Christie, adaptation, Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, suspense

Daddy’s Home 2: Middling Sequel Offers Equal Parts Laughs and Groans

By Liam Lacey

ReviewNovember 9, 2017comedy, Christmas, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, sequels

Poor Agnes review/Q&A: Men... can't live with 'em, gotta kill 'em

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 9, 2017Horror, Canadian films, Fantasia Festival, Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Femme fatales

Tarkovsky Retrospective: 'Art as preparation for death' inspired today's hipster directors

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 9, 2017Retrospective, Russian, drama, Andrei Tarkovsky

My Friend Dahmer: When the killer was still only 'high school weird'

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 9, 2017True crime, Jeffrey Dahmer, Anne Heche, Graphic novels, Derf

Beanie Feldstein Q&A: Lady Bird scene-stealer, Jonah Hill's sis, on luck, love and family

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 9, 2017beanie feldstein, Saoirse Ronan, greta gerwig, jonah hill, Hello Dolly!, Hollywood families

Lady Bird: Coming-of-Age Tale Takes Wing with Ace Performances, Authentic Script

By Kim Hughes

ReviewNovember 8, 2017Comedy-drama, Coming of age, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Greta Gerwig, Awards season movies

Frankie Drake's Lauren Lee Smith talks del Toro and creepy Michael Shannon

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 5, 2017Guillermo del Toro, Shape Of Water, Lauren Lee Smith, CBC, Period films