Martin McDonagh has crafted a modern day allegory in Banshees of Inisherin - a cinematic yarn that the small town elder tells kids as they ride their bikes through the midtown square. It serves as a lesson about love and loss, and more importantly, the reality of what those mean to those of us who wear our hearts on our sleeve.
Read MoreSomething You Said Last Night is primed to be a gem ripe for discovery coming out of this year’s TIFF Festival, and will hopefully gain an audience and bestow its extremely resonant experience onto the larger film world.
Read MoreLe Coyote does not make any large pronouncements on life, and the high stakes revolve only around a single family’s attempt to heal itself. It is a slice of life which countless people endure on a daily basis, and the film’s strengths come from its authenticity and unruffled style, making it one of the most poignant and emotionally genuine films of the year.
Read MoreThe Swimmers is a distinctly unique celebration of triumph and success, with a rock-solid emotional core bound to evoke cries, cheers, laughs, and a feeling of hope when the credits start to roll.
Read MoreWhether you want to laugh or you want to see a sincere story about gender, sexuality, a little bit of magic, and male friendship, actor Marc Duplass’ creation, Biosphere, will help you find a way.
Read MoreAnchored by its fantastic performances, razor-sharp direction, and exhilarating spectacle, The Woman King is a thoroughly exciting epic which packs several punches, and lands its blows, and is worthy of the biggest screen, and crowd, possible.
Read MoreIn addition to being funny and horror done right, Barbarian is extremely smart. Where most horror movies like to put monsters on full display, this film is more interested in exploring where those monsters come from.
Read MoreWhile Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart infuse some much-needed comedic levity in Me Time, its uninspired and unfunny plot makes the case that most Netflix movies aren’t meant to be actively watched.
Read MoreOccasionally, it needs to be restated that Happy Feet, Babe, Lorenzo’s Oil, and the Mad Max series were all directed by the same man. Director George Miller’s resume is astonishing, but while we praise his vision and command of imagery as a director, we cannot ignore he is a truly gifted storyteller. He proves it again with Three Thousand Years of Longing.
Read MoreThirteen Lives is Ron Howard’s most enthralling film in years, utilizing an impeccable cinematographer and terrific performances from its star studded cast to establish brilliant claustrophobic tension.
Read MoreJ.J. Perry’s Day Shift may not be anything new or original, but it ends up being a memorable balls-to-the-walls vampire-action film that’s best experienced with a group of people (or in a midnight screening.
Read MoreThe Predator has returned to our screens, more specifically our television screens with Hulu’s Prey, a prequel that manages to not only return the franchise to its roots successfully, but reinvigorate it in the process as well.
Read MoreNope is larger in scale than Jordan Peele’s previous films and he feels very in command of what he wants to create. While it doesn’t reach the same heights as his previous , there is still something thrilling about seeing where Peele’s mind will take the audience next. Here’s our review.
Read MoreThe impact which the late Leonard Cohen left upon the arts is impossible to doubt. Yet even in Cohen’s impressive catalog, there is no song which left such an impression as the song “Hallelujah.” Its journey is explored and covered in the documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song.
Read MoreThe Black Phone leaves a lot to be desired and it is good to see director Scott Derrickson back in his horror element, trying to craft something that haunt us long after we have left the theatre. But with a muddled script and uneven performances, this is a middle of the road horror film that could’ve been so much more but ends up being fine in the most disappointing fashion.
Read MoreCooper Raiff’s Cha Cha Real Smooth is that good, even if it isn’t perfect. A couple of predictable beats prevent it from soaring the way it should, but with fantastic performances from its leads, and the film’s sharp script, it can be counted as one of the best comedies this year.
Read MoreIn Terence Davies’s Benediction, led by a confident performance by Jack Lowdon, the film explores the life of one of Britain’s most famed poets, and what it is like when the talents of this time face a crisis that shakes them to their core and motivates them to create works of art that move us all.
Read MoreAfter 36 long years and multiple delays, a sequel to Top Gun is finally hitting theaters. Not only is Top Gun: Maverick worth the agonizing wait for fans, but it’s also one of the best blockbuster films ever made, full stop.
Read MoreMemoria’s ephemeral nature makes it a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience, even if the movie itself feels incomplete, through a series of very loud noises. Having said this, seeing Memoria in a movie theater is definitely an experience unlike any other and was tailor-made for complete cinematic engulfment.
Read MoreLiam Neeson’s newest ‘thriller’, Memory is an adaptation of a well-regarded Belgian film, which is itself an adaptation of a book entitled De zaak Alzheimer. While the subject matter of the film could have been something thrilling, edgy or entertaining, it becomes abundantly clear, when adapting the story from its Belgian roots… Something must have gotten lost in the translation.
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