Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 79%
| Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009) | "
There's only one monarch mentioned in the title of Valentino: The Last Emperor. But Matt Tyrnauer's breezy and entertaining look inside the world of high fashion is very much a two-man show." — Toronto Star Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 9%
| I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) | "
With its painfully awkward shifts between pat sentimentality, hackneyed teen-movie tropes and parent-baiting raunchiness, there's little to love about I Love You, Beth Cooper." — Toronto Star Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 69%
| Bruno (2009) | "
Brüno's greatest outrages here will still elicit howls and shrieks, as well they should. But our fabulous Austrian friend is no comedy revolutionary, only a cruel and silly stereotype in leopard-print underwear." — Toronto Star Posted Jul 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 50%
| Empty Nest (2009) | "
Burman's fifth feature is too slight and uneven to fully satisfy, even though it does have much of the same wit and insight as Lost Embrace and Family Law, two previous films that earned the director many comparisons to Woody Allen." — Toronto Star Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| N/A | Gooby (2009) | "
Its lack of a compelling storyline and overreliance on so-so slapstick will limit its appeal to easily distracted preschoolers." — Toronto Star Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Tokyo Sonata (2009) | "
A skilful and continually surprising drama, Tokyo Sonata depicts the gradual deterioration of an ordinary Japanese family after its breadwinner loses his job owing to corporate downsizing." — Toronto Star Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
An invaluable primer, Food, Inc. covers a wide array of factors and concerns without becoming excessively polemical or deadeningly earnest." — Toronto Star Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 74%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
Paris, New York and even Toronto have all gotten their due in a recent wave of city-centric omnibus films that let world-renowned auteurs run wild in their streets. Yet none of these yielded anything as strange or as idiosyncratic as Tokyo!" — Toronto Star Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 100%
| The English Surgeon (2009) | "
A British neurosurgeon's personal humanitarian mission is the subject of this compelling, moving and often surprising documentary." — Toronto Star Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| N/A | Let Him Be (2009) | "
Increasingly played-out as a format for low-budget filmmakers, the mock-doc style creates more limitations than opportunities and Tim's supposedly candid footage of the would-be Lennon often feels awkwardly staged." — Toronto Star Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | The Queen and I (2009) | "
It's a quiet testament to the ways that human connection can trump ideological differences." — Toronto Star Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Adrift in Tokyo (2009) | "
It takes a while to get to its destination, but the journey is a memorable one thanks to the film's charmingly odd sensibility and the affable rapport between our two travelers." — Toronto Star Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Only (2009) | "
A Before Sunrise for the Jonas Brothers demographic, Only is a sweet, subtle and perceptive movie about a fleeting connection between two lonely adolescents." — Toronto Star Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Crank High Voltage (2009) | "
Tasteless, trashy and totally over the top, Crank: High Voltage might also be one of the year's most inventive movies. Sometimes, nothing exceeds like excess." — Toronto Star Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 76%
| Shall We Kiss? (2008) | "
While it's hardly novel to see the lives of lovers thrown into disarray by a series of misunderstandings, missed signals and well-intentioned lies, Shall We Kiss? carries it all off with a rare degree of sophistication and wit." — Toronto Star Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 78%
| 12 (2007) | "
After weathering the characters' windbaggery for nearly three hours, it's hard not to feel like Mikhalkov's done the same to viewers of 12." — Toronto Star Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Life of Reilly (2007) | "
...the man’s sense of stagecraft and storytelling prowess are undeniable." — eye WEEKLY Posted Mar 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 72%
| Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) | "
This French-made chiller proves just how scary a pitch-black theatre can be." — Toronto Star Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 22%
| Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009) | "
Love them or loathe them, it's the Jonas Brothers' moment -- you might as well enjoy it." — Toronto Star Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 23%
| Fired Up (2009) | "
Sloppy but moderately amusing." — Toronto Star Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | "
Faithfully adhering to the precepts of the slasher flick, it might even seem honourable if it weren't so disreputable." — Toronto Star Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| N/A | Nurse.Fighter.Boy (2009) | "
Strong performances and striking cinematography help this first film by Toronto's Charles Officer move with more grace than its heavy-going storyline would have normally allowed." — Toronto Star Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 32%
| Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) | "
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is as unnecessary as it is uninvolving. Only fans desperate to learn how the whole vampire-werewolf conflict began are likely to get anything out of this viewing experience." — Toronto Star Posted Jan 26, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 59%
| My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) | "
The trouble is that after that first gouged eyeball, there's not a whole lot further to go. Novelty value being a rapidly diminishing thing, the technology demands an escalation in intensity and inventiveness that the movie doesn't deliver." — Toronto Star Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Rumba (2008) | "
A near-silent Belgian farce about a married pair of competitive Latin dancers whose lives go badly but amusingly awry, Rumba features plenty of fancy footwork." — Toronto Star Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 48%
| Chandni Chowk to China (2009) | "
The first-ever Bollywood kung fu comedy qualifies as deliriously and endearingly bizarre." — Toronto Star Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 50%
| Notorious (2009) | "
This tale of triumph and tragedy within hip hop's elite is intelligent, gripping and far less sensationalistic than anyone could have expected." — Toronto Star Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Recipes For Disaster (2008) | "
Director John Webster takes an unconventionally personal and highly engaging approach to the subject of climate change." — Toronto Star Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 15%
| The Spirit (2008) | "
At which exact point The Spirit hits rock bottom is a matter of debate." — Toronto Star Posted Dec 24, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 23%
| Bedtime Stories (2008) | "
Judged as a piece of family entertainment, it's too haphazard and poorly paced to satisfy viewers too young to have ever attended a kegger." — Toronto Star Posted Dec 24, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 76%
| Canvas (2007) | "
Though Canvas may not deviate much from the formula followed by so many other movies about families imperiled by health crises, it's unusually perceptive about the ways that loved ones process (or fail to process) the resulting stress." — Toronto Star Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| N/A | Growing Op (2008) | "
Growing Op strains hard to deliver edgy humour with a dollop of heart but is too stilted and derivative to carry it off." — Toronto Star Posted Nov 24, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 76%
| Role Models (2008) | "
There are three things that every modern screen comedy needs: references to old KISS songs, guys dressed as knights whacking each other with foam swords, and a potty-mouthed 10-year-old." — Toronto Star Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 60%
| Made in Jamaica (2006) | "
The consistently stellar appearances by everyone from Bunny Wailer to Bounty Killer give Laperousaz’s movie the same restless and sometimes reckless vitality that has always energized Jamaican music." — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 27%
| The Other End of the Line (2008) | "
A feather-light romantic comedy that's laborious when it ought to be effervescent; The Other End of the Line is the latest exchange in an awkward conversation between two film industries." — Toronto Star Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 91%
| I.O.U.S.A. (2008) | "
I.O.U.S.A. is a clear, cogent and compelling primer on contemporary American economics and the not-so-small matter of how we ended up at the edge of a precipice." — Toronto Star Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
— | Fresh 88%
| Almost Famous (2000) |
Click here to read article — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 22%
| Little Nicky (2000) |
Click here to read article — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 84%
| Magnolia (1999) |
Click here to read article — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 90%
| Topsy-Turvy (1999) |
Click here to read article — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 86%
| Macbeth (1971) |
Click here to read article — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 30%
| The Waterboy (1998) |
Click here to read article — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | N/A | Souvenir of Canada (2006) |
Click here to read article — CBC.ca Arts Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 63%
| O (2001) |
Click here to read article — eye WEEKLY Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Love and Honor (2008) | "
A very satisfying tale that emphasizes one of the genre's key themes: The deepest wound a samurai may suffer does not come from any blade." — Globe and Mail Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 7%
| Babylon A.D. (2008) | "
'I'm very unhappy with the film,' the director recently told an online magazine. Join the club." — Globe and Mail Posted Sep 2, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 39%
| Goal II: Living the Dream (2008) | "
Goal II clumsily telegraphs all of its moves far in advance." — Globe and Mail Posted Aug 29, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Henry Poole Is Here (2008) | "
The further the characters venture into the mystic, the more the movie itself seems to dissipate." — Globe and Mail Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Of Time and the City (2009) | "
Caustic, rueful and profound in equal measure, Davies’ new documentary rises above the muck of Cannes, be it on screen or underfoot." — eye WEEKLY Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 15%
| Mirrors (2008) | "
Mirrors is too lugubrious and misconceived to reflect the talent of those involved." — Globe and Mail Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
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