Reviews

[Review] The Unspoken

There are only so many iterations of the haunted house trope and yet they continue getting made. Sometimes we're lucky with James Wan's The Conjuring series del...

[LFF Review] David Lynch: The Art Life

Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint." That’s what he dubbed "the ...

[Review] Boo! A Madea Halloween

You know you are in trouble when the funniest part of a movie is Madea's discussion of her retirement account. (She calls it her “Ho-01K” account, because she c...

[Review] The Whole Truth

It's been a curious few weeks for adult fare at the multiplex. With girls on trains, autistic accountants and ex-military vigilantes, there's no shortage of mov...

[LFF Review] Porto

One of Anton Yelchin’s final screen performances lifts the melancholic ode to one night’s lost passion in Porto, a messy, scattered drama that, for all it...

[Review] Before The Flood

In so many ways, Before The Flood, directed by Fisher Stevens, is like any climate change documentary released in recent years, save one facet: Leonardo DiCapri...

[LFF Review] Mifune: The Last Samurai

Mifune: The Last Samurai, the well-assembled documentary on the life of actor Toshirô Mifune, the long-time Akira Kurosawa collaborator, should be a worthy intr...

[VIFF Review] The Student

The Student, which is translated on screen as "The Disciple" (an interpretation far more fitting, although the Russian word used is also close to “Martyr”) is, ...

[Review] Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Generally, it takes a few installments before a film series sees fit to burden its lone wolf hero with extraneous partners, but Jack Reacher has done so on the ...

[Review] Long Nights Short Mornings

Long Nights Short Mornings, written and directed by Chadd Harbold, follows in the footsteps of the "playboy in crisis" sub-genre, populated by the likes of Alfi...