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Kate Taylor
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Seven Veils (2023) |
A fascinating film about appropriation – not cultural but personal, the morally dubious territory in which the artist takes your trauma and spins it into gold. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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Emily (2022) |
Purists are not going to be pleased... But for the rest of us this fantasy does offer the satisfaction of witnessing the short-lived triumph of a fascinating character. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Feb 23, 2023
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The Son (2022) |
The Son is a film that is very cruel to its characters, and by extension to its long-suffering audience. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Jan 17, 2023
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Corsage (2022) |
Corsage is a work of fiction, and its main character is, thankfully, far more complicated and interesting than the real thing. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Jan 04, 2023
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She Said (2022) |
Even at the mighty New York Times, journalism is less romantic than it was in the days of All the President’s Men; She Said is not a thrilling movie but rather a satisfying one. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) |
Gleeson and Farrell make the film a delight. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Oct 24, 2022
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The Good House (2021) |
The plot features various tired TV formulas but is rescued by a highly observant performance from Sigourney Weaver, who knows this brittle WASP type – well-dressed, sharp-tongued and hard-drinking. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 26, 2022
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Mau (2021) |
The Bergmanns’ sensitive approach to their subject... reveals a visionary accustomed to beating the odds. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted May 19, 2022
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Julia (2021) |
Lots of footage from her earliest PBS shows in the 1960s plus luscious recreations of such staples as boeuf bourguignon and pear tart make for irresistible viewing. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Nov 22, 2021
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Drunken Birds (2021) |
Magic realism, romantic tragedy, social critique - confusingly, this film has it all. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 17, 2021
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Silent Land (2021) |
The director's larger point is deployed with such subtlety that it creeps up on the viewer with devastating force. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 16, 2021
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Official Competition (2021) |
Cruz plays their aggressively eccentric director with a perfect blend of oddball, hauteur and deadpan. One of the many joys of this send-up of filmmaking is that, for all the director’s looniness, she is so often right. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 16, 2021
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Snakehead (2021) |
Leon's documentary realism is powerful - if tough on an audience - but his fiction skills are erratic... - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 16, 2021
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The Odd-Job Men (2021) |
The laughs and the wisdom creep up on you in this small and subtle comedy about male relationships. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 15, 2021
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Charlotte (2021) |
The genius of Charlotte, directed by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana, is to recognize that the best way to tell this story is through animation that can reproduce Salomon's quick expressionistic gouaches as it recounts her life. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 14, 2021
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Benediction (2021) |
The dialogue is quietly scathing, and the production values are sumptuous. But Davies seems most interested in Sassoon as a symbol of hemmed-in Englishness. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 14, 2021
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All My Puny Sorrows (2021) |
Director Michael McGowan struggles to deliver Toews's inimitable voice... and only occasionally produces breakthrough scenes where humour and sorrow merge. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 13, 2021
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Are You Lonesome Tonight? (2021) |
The unlikely presence of Guangzhou, steamy by day, gritty by night, and the shifting viewpoints on the accident add an engaging originality. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 13, 2021
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Memoria (2021) |
It's a beautiful work of cinematic concentration that's purely Apichatpong. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) |
Cumberbatch excels once again at breathing life into a sorrowful genius. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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Maria Chapdelaine (2021) |
Today's YA generation is unlikely to appreciate the monosyllabic performances and stately pace, but Pilote delivers a beautiful film in the tradition of the Quebec canon. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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One Second (2020) |
Billed by the director as his tribute to cinema, One Second is affectionate and sweet... - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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The Power of the Dog (2021) |
Campion builds the tension slowly and emphatically, telegraphing the perils ahead. Yet when the two-edged climax comes it's powerfully unexpected. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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The Hidden Life of Trees (2020) |
Based on the 2015 book of the same title, The Hidden Life of Trees is a documentary both simple and startling. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Aug 25, 2021
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Cockroach (2020) |
The film gives some context for the millennial generation's frustration with living in a dense and expensive global financial centre that seems dedicated solely to work, and which is now losing the freedoms that may have made that bearable. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Jan 11, 2021
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Wolfwalkers (2020) |
The particularly imaginative handling of the shifts between the human and the more ethereal animal incarnations represent the film's most rewarding aspect. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 22, 2020
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Summer of 85 (2020) |
Unfortunately, the plot becomes so melodramatic that Ozon ultimately loses control of the film, failing to deliver on both the odd bit of comedy and the tragic finale. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 14, 2020
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180 Degree Rule (2020) |
Director Farnoosh Samadi makes a convincing feature-length debut with a classic Iranian family drama. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 14, 2020
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The Father (2020) |
The results are both mind-bending and heart-rending. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 12, 2020
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The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (2020) |
Cutting together searing interviews with cleverly edited imagery, the film (Canadian but often focusing on the U.S.) is right up to the minute, deftly including COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter... - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 12, 2020
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Shiva Baby (2020) |
This pocket comedy is going to divide people. Shiva Baby is a relentless parody of North American Jewish types which will delight some and offend others. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 11, 2020
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Chemical Hearts (2020) |
Indeed, it's a film that considers young heartbreak so earnestly, it risks taking itself too seriously, too. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Aug 22, 2020
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Stage Mother (2020) |
Today, homophobia may still blight many a queen's family relations, but Stage Mother feels dated and formulaic. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Aug 22, 2020
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The Song of Names (2019) |
Mainly, this movie chatters when it should sing. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Dec 23, 2019
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The Two Popes (2019) |
Hopkins and Pryce's finely tuned performances illuminate Benedict's shrewd intelligence and Francis's deep humility. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 09, 2019
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How to Build a Girl (2019) |
Yet, the film's delightful eccentricities... and its sharp take on the pretensions of London scene-setters make it ceaselessly entertaining. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 09, 2019
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Radioactive (2019) |
The problem is not so much Satrapi's theatrical approach to the subject, which veers wildly from the overwrought to the dramatically compelling, as it is Jack Thorne's abysmal script. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 09, 2019
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The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) |
The meta-fiction may be overdone, but that and the director's feeling for tone create the expansive atmosphere in which a talented multiracial cast lead by Dev Patel can master everything from pure melodrama to high comedy. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 09, 2019
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Rocks (2019) |
With exuberant naturalism from its non-professional actors, and a standout performance from Kosar Ali as Rocks's best friend, the film covers the highs and lows of female adolescence with compelling sensitivity. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 09, 2019
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One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019) |
The real-time effect... is compelling as its languor and its repetitions gradually reveal the deep cultural misunderstanding that is going on. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Heimat is a Space in Time (2019) |
So, it remains up to the viewer to measure the continuance of the past while the actual family history - who died; who married who - becomes as riveting as a half-grasped soap opera, with lives and loves disappearing in the fog of time. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Pain and Glory (2019) |
Asier Etxeandia occasionally threatens to steal the show with his delicious turn as an exuberant addict, but perhaps the bravest thing here is Banderas' reserved performance. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger (2019) |
[A] heart-wrenching albeit hopeful doc... - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Kuessipan (2019) |
Kuessipan is quiet and mesmerizing and tragic and full of hope. It is a triumph, and a privilege to spend time with. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Vitalina Varela (2019) |
With such intense chiaroscuro, its images can prove heartbreaking. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Longa noite (2019) |
It is the cinematography that makes Endless Night stand out: Every shot is perfectly composed, dramatically lit and intensely focused. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Guest of Honour (2019) |
There is a definite yuck factor to Atom Egoyan's Guest of Honour. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018) |
Ruben's story may be as oddly illogical as any of his nightmares, but the animation here is a dreamy delight. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Feb 28, 2019
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The Upside (2017) |
Adapting the French script by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, writer Jon Hartmere and director Neil Burger smooth over the more stereotypical elements of this mismatched pair, turning the story into a tasteful buddy pic. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Jan 11, 2019
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Mary Poppins Returns (2018) |
Blunt is charmingly crisp and superior. Her winning performance makes this new nanny a keeper. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Dec 14, 2018
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