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Peter Howell

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The Oldest Person in the World (2026) 92% EDIT “There’s placid acceptance of an inevitable truth: we’re all getting older together, while the planet keeps right on spinning.” – Toronto Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Broken English (2025) 92% EDIT “What begins as a career survey becomes a prickly, funny, deeply moving act of self-authorship, as Faithfull wrestles with the stories others told about her and the ones she still insists on telling herself.” – Toronto Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Bedford Park (2026) 95% EDIT “It could use another pass in the edit, with at least two characters and incidents too many, but this Sundance U.S. dramatic prize contender is still an exceptional, strongly acted feature debut for writer-director Stephanie Ahn.” – Toronto Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Nuisance Bear  (2026) 100% EDIT “This haunting, visually arresting doc asks who truly belongs on the tundra.” – Toronto Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The Disciple (2026) EDIT “Bold and principled artistic statement or cynical commercial ploy? I’m not talking about Joanna Natasegara’s smart new doc “The Disciple,” but the legendarily elusive Wu-Tang Clan album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” it examines.” – Toronto Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 100% EDIT “It’s hard not to love this head-scratching dive into a different kind of grey matter.” – Toronto Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review One in a Million (2026) 100% EDIT “The global refugee crisis meets documentary realism with devastating force in this decade-long chronicle of Syrian exile Israa. ” – Toronto Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Filipiñana (2026) EDIT “A marvel of form and control, creating a work laden with symbols and suggestion. ” – Toronto Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 90% EDIT “Shimmering hues, clever dance moves and assists on grieving from a giant black crow add to the sensation of being swept away by wonderful madness.” – Toronto Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Josephine (2026) 98% EDIT “As the adults navigate the moral and legal fallout, Reeves anchors the film with a heartbreaking, remarkably mature performance that announces her as a major new talent.” – Toronto Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% 0/4 EDIT “Lazily written, chaotically directed and played out with all the zest of a convenience-store security video, it lacks not only vision and purpose but the faintest hint of entertainment.” – Toronto Star Jan 21, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “Your rapt attention is assured, but wrenching tonal shifts may leave you exiting the theatre feeling like your skull has been zipped open by a hungry Alpha.” – Toronto Star Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% 3.5/4 EDIT “What connects these tales isn’t narrative propulsion but pulse. Jarmusch is patiently attuned to people trying, and largely failing, to bridge the small emotional gaps that can turn into chasms.” – Toronto Star Jan 9, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 87% 3/4 EDIT “Ridley’s quiet magnetism steadies We Bury the Dead through its shakier stretches, while Hilditch steers by emotion rather than fear. Both are chasing a reckoning with loss that flickers, achingly, just beyond reach.” – Toronto Star Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “You may leave the theatre exhausted, but the unstoppable sphere that is “Marty Supreme” keeps bouncing long after the credits roll.” – Toronto Star Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 3/4 EDIT “It’s an achingly authentic portrait of a marriage quietly losing oxygen, less a conventional breakup story than an observational study, shot with the intimacy of reality TV.” – Toronto Star Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2.5/4 EDIT “A certain sameness has set in. The film, an extension of the previous chapter, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” feels like it’s hitting multiple speed bumps on a road it has already driven, twice, in an even bigger car.” – Toronto Star Dec 16, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “Cameron's mania for detail, and his own vast diving experience, gives the film authority and depth, while the special effects of the aliens remain unequalled.” – Toronto Star Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 3/4 EDIT “It is darker, denser and in many ways more interesting than its predecessor, though newcomers should beware: entering Oz here without context is like being dropped into a tornado. ” – Toronto Star Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 2.5/4 EDIT “Clooney is at his smoothest in “Jay Kelly,” but the best thing about the film is its generosity toward supporting stars, especially Sandler, Dern and Crudup.” – Toronto Star Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 2.5/4 EDIT ““Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” honours its subject’s courage more than it rewards his myth. A film of grit without glory, insight without ignition, it’s a tribute to Springsteen and “Nebraska” but far from transcendent.” – Toronto Star Oct 22, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% 2.5/4 EDIT “There are many fine performances in “After the Hunt” that shimmer all the more because the actors have so little to work with. Images and music struggle to fill in the storytelling blanks.” – Toronto Star Oct 15, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 3.5/4 EDIT “In Kathryn Bigelow’s riveting thriller A House of Dynamite, it’s the horrifying sensation of being caught napping by a nuclear assault that gives the film so much power.” – Toronto Star Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% 3/4 EDIT “It invites awe at its performances and visual design, even as it frustratingly withholds complete answers to its many questions.” – Toronto Star Sep 30, 2025 Full Review Hard Eight (1996) 82% 2/5 EDIT “It's not a bad premise to begin with, but the script and direction in this debut feature by California filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't take it very far. ” – Toronto Star Sep 22, 2025 Full Review
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