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Since 2017: Career film critics continuing the conversation

The Accountant of Auschwitz: When being there is a war crime

By Jim Slotek

Jim SlotekJune 6, 2018documentaries, Hot Docs 18, Nazi War Criminals, John Demjanjuk, Oskar Groning, Auschwitz, Holocaust

Hotel Artemis: Jodie Foster chews hard on preposterous premise in a dark, guilty pleasure

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 6, 2018Science fiction, Crime drama, Jodie Foster, Jeff Goldblum, Dave Bautista, Drew Pearce

Toronto Japanese Film Festival: From the harrowing "lost" Hiroshima to the light-hearted mysticism of Kamakura

By Jim Slotek

Views, ReviewJim SlotekJune 5, 2018Japanese films, Hiroshima, Fukushima, Yokai, Nuclear disasters, Anti-war, Toronto Japanese Film Festival

Original-Cin Q&A: Won't You Be My Neighbor's Morgan Neville on Mister Rogers, his counsel to Yo-Yo Ma and his beautiful legacy

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekJune 5, 2018Documentaries, Fred Rogers, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Won't You Be My Neighbor, PBS, Morgan Neville, 20 Feet From Stardom, Children's televsion, Presbyterian

First Reformed: Ethan Hawke Soars in Masterful Drama about Trampled Faith

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJune 1, 2018Ethan Hawke, Paul Schrader, Amanda Seyfried, TIFF 2017, drama

Let the Sunshine In: Sober Meditation on Love Lurks Beneath Frothy French Rom-Com

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 31, 2018Claire Denis, French film, Gérard Depardieu, DRama, Juliette Binoche

M/M: Thriller Set in Pulsing Berlin Gay Scene Borrows Widely, For Better or Worse

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 31, 2018Erotic thriller, Canadian, Drew Lint, Antoine LaHaie, Nicolas Maxim Endlicher, Edgar Alan Poe

Shoe's on the other foot when rich white people are profiled in Black Cop

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMay 31, 2018Racial profiling, Police shootings of blacks, Halifax, PTSD, Cory Bowles, Trailer Park Boys, Toronto International Film Festival

Adrift: Lost-at-Sea Drama Buoyed by Cast but Sunk by Odd Narrative Choices

By Kim Hughes

ReviewMay 31, 2018Sam Claflin, Shailene Woodley, lost at sea, Baltasar Kormákur, shipwreck, drama

Original-Cin Q&A: Trailer Park Boys actor talks about his powerful reverse-racial-profile drama Black Cop

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekMay 29, 2018Racial profiling, Police shootings of blacks, Halifax, PTSD, Cory Bowles, Trailer Park Boys, Toronto International Film Festival

The Gospel According To Andre: Just an ordinary flamboyant man in a caftan

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekMay 25, 2018Fashion, Vogue, Andre Leon Talley, Women's Wear Daily, Anna Wintour, Diana Vreeland, Documentaries

Kayak To Klemtu: Clunky Dramedy Scores Strong Green Message Despite Itself

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 24, 2018Zoe Leigh Hopkins, Ta’Kaiya Blaney, Lorne Cardinal, Canadian film

Solo: Star Wars' young rogue manages some swagger in an edgeless adventure

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekMay 24, 2018Star Wars, Prequels, Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, Millennium Falcon

Birthmarked: Scientific child abuse 'comedy' is a hypothesis dead on arrival

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMay 23, 2018Comedy, Behaviorism, Nature versus nurture, Toni Collette, Scientific ethics, Children raised in isolation, B.F. Skinner

Original-Cin Q&A: Solo/Avengers' Paul Bettany was told a decade ago he'd never work again

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekMay 21, 2018Star Wars, Han solo prequel, Dryden Vos, Paul Bettany, Ron Howard, Joss Whedon, Avengers, Vision, JARVIS

Another Kind of Wedding: Fraught Family Relations Power Likable Comedy

By Kim Hughes

ReviewMay 18, 2018Comedy, Canadian movies, Kathleen Turner, Wallace Shawn, Jessica Pare, Frances Farmer

Venus: Transgender Woman Confronts Tradition (and Parenthood) in Gentle New Comedy

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 17, 2018Canadian, comedy, Debargo Sanyal, Eisha Marjara, transgender issues

New Jean-Michel Basquiat Doc Precisely Locates 70s NYC but Blurry on Its Subject

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 17, 2018Sara Driver, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Documentary

Show Dogs: Crappy Comedy is a Dog Alright, Void of Bark or Bite

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 17, 2018Ludacris, Will Arnett, comedy, animals

RBG: Doc Captures Brilliant Ruth Bader Ginsburg in All Her Feminist Glory

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 17, 2018Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Documentary, Toronto Jewish film festival