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1/4
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——
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Please Kill Mr. Know It All () |
"
The ride gets bumpy almost immediately ... and the scenery is as familiar as what you might see driving to a job you've had for more years than you care to remember."
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Globe and Mail
Posted May 17, 2013
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2.5/4
|
——
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Slaughter Nick for President () |
"
[An] odyssey of belated, documentary-boosted pop-culture reclamation."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted May 10, 2013
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|
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90%
|
Portrait of Wally (2012) |
"
An account of greed, betrayal, culpability and self-serving moral relativism."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted May 6, 2013
|
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3/4
|
——
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Still Mine () |
"
Still Mine is a measured but considerably moving celebration of things hand-crafted, traditional and built to last."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted May 3, 2013
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|
1.5/4
|
71%
|
My Awkward Sexual Adventure (2013) |
"
Almost entirely devoid of reasons to keep watching, unless of course you're curious about the sex-ed applications of a cantaloupe."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
Upstream Color is a deliberate exercise in swooning obscurity. You either go with its considerable sensory powers or you scratch a groove on your head."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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3/4
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100%
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Tatsumi (2013) |
"
Western viewers might liken it to Disney meets The Dark Knight."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 25, 2013
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2/4
|
51%
|
Pusher (2012) |
"
Just stick to the original: Fate is always more fetching than formula."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 9, 2012
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2/4
|
65%
|
Antiviral (2013) |
"
A virtual panoply of high wooziness, replete with sweating, shakes, vomiting, rot-infected food and more needles piercing skin than rush hour at a free flu clinic."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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3/4
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
A let's-put-on-a-show story so steeped in backlot Hollywood convention it almost embarrasses itself, with the difference being it really doesn't care."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 28, 2012
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3/4
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
Gere gets the role he has been suiting up for ever since he was first designer-dressed for a murder rap in American Gigolo."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 28, 2012
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2/4
|
56%
|
For a Good Time, Call... (2012) |
"
Boasts almost the same degree of intellectual heft, moral nuance and philosophical rigour as a sitcom."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 31, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
BirdWatchers - La terra degli uomini rossi (2008) |
"
Bechis, a former political exile from Argentina with a clear anti-colonialist bent, may be angered by the Guarani's plight, but his movie - like these people - is contemplative, patient and forcefully determined."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Feb 3, 2011
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|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) |
"
It's the coolness of Gibney's account of the possibly systematic sabotaging of Spitzer's career, perpetrated by a strangely camera-friendly cast of enemies-cum-conspirators, that makes it such transfixing viewing."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 19, 2010
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|
2.5/4
|
67%
|
Jews And Baseball: An American Love Story (2010) |
"
I doubt there's much here any die-hard fan doesn't already know, but having it retold from the perspective of a struggling, respect-hungry community merely makes the metaphoric affinities of the game that much more persuasive."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
32%
|
A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop (San qiang pai an jing qi) (A Simple Noodle Story) (The First Gun) (2010) |
"
A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop is a tipsy wedding of low hijinks and tiptoe-tense suspense stretches."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (2011) |
"
[A] lavish, lovely and rather earnestly dull tribute of a movie."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Oct 1, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
89%
|
Waiting for Superman (2010) |
"
There is no question that this is compelling viewing, especially considering the largely abstract and policy-driven nature of the crisis."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Oct 1, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
Life During Wartime (2010) |
"
An easy film to dislike, a piece of cake to admire and all but impossible to love. But I think that's part of the intent."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Aug 27, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) (2010) |
"
Why are we watching this? And what, in Little Caesar's name, could possibly make us come back for Part II?"
—
Toronto Star
Posted Aug 12, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
81%
|
Countdown to Zero (2010) |
"
At least it makes you scared again. There's nothing more frightening than what we've learned to live with."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Jul 30, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
69%
|
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010) |
"
The fact is, we don't really come to know much more about Salander than we did at the end of last movie. But perhaps that's the key to holding our attention."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Jul 8, 2010
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Of Time and the City (2009) |
"
[A] mesmerizing, visceral and heartfelt, a lushly rendered assembly of colour and black-and-white archival footage that evokes not only a remembrance of things past, but perhaps as they never were."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Jan 23, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
30%
|
Youth Without Youth (2007) |
"
Not so much a bad movie as a dispiritingly unnecessary one (especially by a once-great director), Youth Without Youth ultimately boils down to a long, autumn stroll around the block to a place everyone winds up at some time or another."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Jan 4, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
74%
|
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"
A tepid, CGI-enhanced family movie that should delight 6-year-olds with a lap full of popcorn."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Dec 26, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
78%
|
The Great Debaters (2007) |
"
It's ultimately less a movie than a high-gloss civics lesson."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Dec 26, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
86%
|
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) |
"
It's easily Burton's best since, well, ever."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Dec 21, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
Mama's Boy (2007) |
"
It's not that the movie is utterly bereft of arresting moments. It's just that each of these prominently features one of the aforementioned supporting cast and not the so-called star."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Dec 14, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
The Kite Runner (2007) |
"
The Kite Runner has become that most unfortunate of awards-season Hollywood casualties: a worthy bore."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Dec 14, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
40%
|
My Dinner with Jimi (2003) |
"
More a collection of dubiously myth-serving, purple-hazed '60s' sketches than anything else."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
83%
|
Atonement (2007) |
"
Atonement is not only too polite but maddeningly orderly, resulting in a prettily cast, professionally performed, impeccably mounted bore."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"
With its rushed, jargon-pumped exposition, surplus of quarter-baked characters, stray narrative strands and generously dropped hints of things possibly to come, The Golden Compass is a movie that wears its franchise ambitions on its sleeve."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Dec 7, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
The Life of Reilly (2007) |
"
In this rippingly entertaining documentary of Reilly's celebrated autobiographical monologue Save It for the Stage, the unfailingly witty, shamelessly bitchy Reilly gets to set the record straight about a number of things."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 30, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
55%
|
This Christmas (2007) |
"
If the real-life Christmas experience tends too often to be marred by the rude contradiction between expectations and reality, movies like the ultra-bland holiday family movie This Christmas are at least partly to blame."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 24, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
52%
|
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"
There's no question Baumbach has a way with words and actors (Kidman, Leigh and Jack Black are terrific)."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 24, 2007
|
|
1/4
|
37%
|
August Rush (2007) |
"
Exuberantly bad and strenuously preposterous."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 21, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007) |
"
From the open-air stroll he took down Pennsylvania Ave. on his inauguration day, to the sunny-coloured cardigans he wore when addressing the nation, president James T. Carter always seemed like a guy who wanted people to remember he was one of them."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 17, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
44%
|
redacted (2007) |
"
Where Casualties of War had the swooning formal elegance of an opium dream, Redacted adopts the fractured fitfulness of a seizure."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 16, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
L' Avocat de la Terreur (Terror's Advocate) (2007) |
"
The movie functions crackingly well as a non-fiction international thriller."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 16, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"
At a time when family movies are usurped by fantasies of sentimental feelgood, Lumet's latest -- the mangled-heist melodrama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead -- delivers a swift kick straight to the jewels."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 16, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
72%
|
Darfur Now (2007) |
"
In movie making, as in life, it's not enough to mean well. The real challenge is in being meaningful."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 9, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
26%
|
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"
There is much talk of paralysis in Robert Redford's what's-wrong-with-America movie Lions for Lambs, and there is a whole lot of the same in the movie itself."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 9, 2007
|
|
1/4
|
34%
|
P2 (2007) |
"
P2 feels like a vehicle lost in an after-hours parking facility, constantly backing up, shifting gears and generally speeding around in circles in a vain attempt to get somewhere."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 9, 2007
|
|
—
|
51%
|
The Bubble (Ha Buah) (2007) |
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 3, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
33%
|
Martian Child (2007) |
"
If all this is supposed to be so life-affirming, how come I envied the dead dog?"
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 2, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Lars and the Real Girl (2007) |
"
Lars and the Real Girl remains suspended somewhere between perversity and pap, with only Gosling hinting at the mingling that might have been."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 2, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
80%
|
American Gangster (2007) |
"
Ridley Scott's listless Big Statement is a wheezy, hot air-inflated dud."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Nov 2, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
16%
|
Saw IV (2007) |
"
An incomprehensible cacophony of screams, shock cuts, dour pseudo-philosophizing, heavy metal mutilation and low-rent TV-standard performances."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Oct 29, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Control (2007) |
"
Joy Division has the movie that, for better or worse, lives up to the myth."
—
Toronto Star
Posted Oct 26, 2007
|
87%
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