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Since 2017: Career film critics continuing the conversation

Sweet Virginia: A Half-Baked Noir of Few Words

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 30, 2017Canadian, drama, Jamie M Dagg

Engrossing Doc Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Illuminates Brains Behind Beauty

By Liam Lacey

ReviewNovember 26, 2017Hedy Lamarr, Classic Hollywood, documentary, Sexism

The Man Who Invented Christmas: God bless it, everyone!

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 24, 2017Christmas movies, A Christmas Carol, Christopher Plummer, Dan Stevens, Bharat Nalluri

Original-Cin Q&A: Animated Afghan empowerment story, The Breadwinner

Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner)

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 23, 2017Afghanistan, Women's rights, Animation, Islam, Nora Twomey, The Secret of Kells

Vampires on the Gardiner, Red Spring kicks off fun-fueled Blood In The Snow indie fest

By Jim Slotek

ViewsJim SlotekNovember 22, 2017Independent films, Horror, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Film Festivals, Blood In The Snow

Linklater's Last Flag Flying is a relentlessly sadder Last Detail

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 22, 2017Anti-war, Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Richard Linklater, Iraq

Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Three Movies In One. Enter at Own Risk

By Kim Hughes

ReviewNovember 22, 2017drama, Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, legal drama, Dan Gilroy

Coco: Mexican Realism Infuses Animated Family Pic with Uncommon Soul

By Kim Hughes

ReviewNovember 21, 2017Disney, Pixar, Animated, Children's films, Mexican

Q&A, Bharat Nalluri: Dickens liked Christmas, religion not so much

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 21, 2017Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Christopher Plummer, MI5, The Little Ice Age

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