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[Review] Anna

What if you could go all Inception on The Bad Seed, or mind-meld with Damien from The Omen? I suspect it was a theoretical mash-up along these lines that served...

[Review] The Fault in Our Stars

My teenage years may be decades removed from me at this point, but that didn’t stop me from reconnecting with my brooding, uncertain inner teen when reading Joh...

[Review] Dormant Beauty

The newest film by Marco Bellocchio, one of Italy’s most revered directors, Dormant Beauty, initially seems like a risky proposition, being that it intends to m...

[Review] Edge of Tomorrow

Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise’s latest summer action vehicle, fits nicely into the group of recent blockbusters concerned with altering a distant past. Like X-Me...

[Review] The Grand Seduction

Newfoundland provides the stunning and charmingly quirky backdrop for Don McKellar’s The Grand Seduction, an old-fashioned ode to small-town working class value...

[Review] Words and Pictures

Two essential elements spring to the forefront of Fred Schepisi’s new romantic comedy, but they aren’t the titular Words and Pictures of the title. In fact, it’...

[Review] The Big Ask

At the risk of sounding like a critic full of zingers, The Big Ask requires just that of the audience: a suspension of disbelief. The problem is we’ve seen this...