Reviews

[Review] Artifact

To disclose my feelings on Thirty Seconds to Mars off the bat, I'm a huge fan of the band. When "Capricorn (A Brand New Name)" hit the radio waves, I was sold—n...

[Review] Black Nativity

I admit I’m unfamiliar with Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity, a libretto that serves as the source material for Fox Searchlight's latest release, but I have a fe...

[Review] The Punk Singer

When Kathleen Hanna is shown sitting at her home discussing her exit from fronting Le Tigre, she says, “I felt I had said everything I wanted to say.” It’s the ...

[Review] Oldboy

Coming hot off the heels of the original's 10-year anniversary, Spike Lee's remake of Chan-wook Park's Oldboy may succeed in swaying domestic audiences unfamili...

[Review] Frozen

Over half a century in the making, Disney’s adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen has finally made it to the big screen. It was 1943 when Walt ...

[Review] Homefront

For a certain type of moviegoer, the on-paper credentials of Homefront are undeniably encouraging: written by Sylvester Stallone (whose initial intentions here ...

[Review] Everyday

Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, ever the force to be reckoned with, returns with another drama experiment that will no doubt find only the smallest of audiences...

[Review] Narco Cultura

It's truly stunning to see something so horrendously volatile as the Mexican narcotics trade glorified to the point of celebrity by naïve outsiders far removed ...

[Review] The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

She may live in a dystopic nightmare where the reigning government wants her head on a plate, but Katniss Everdeen is one fortunate girl. She emerged from the t...

[Review] Delivery Man

A little over two years ago, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, I walked into a small Toronto art house and discovered the gem that is Starbuck, the French-Canadian c...