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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
100 Sunset (2025) Barry Hertz There is a fire inside of 100 Sunset that feels as if it could engulf the entirety of Toronto, forget Parkdale.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sheep Detectives (2026) Aparita Bhandari If you’re looking for spring diversion, The Sheep Detectives is a delightful respite from all that’s wearisome.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) (2026) Brad Wheeler This is a 3-D film sorely lacking in dimension. Hit me hard, hit me soft, Cameron, but hit me with something.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Mortal Kombat II (2026) Barry Hertz While Urban can do this kind of slack-jawed what-fresh-hell-is-this comedy in his sleep by now thanks to his roles on the similarly disgusting (but far more engaging) series The Boys, the actor is consistently undermined by McQuoid’s uneven tone.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Black Christmas (1974) Martin Knelman It's amazing how many familiar performers have been talked into risking their reputations by playing this material as if they believed it.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) Rick Groen The man behind the camera is new this time, and so are many of the faces in front. Alas, nothing else has changed.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Deep Water (2026) Barry Hertz The most surprising thing about Deep Water, though? It’s not half-bad. I mean, don’t get too excited -- this is still a bad movie. But it is the kind of better-than-it-should-be bad instead of merely bad-bad.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Hokum (2026) Barry Hertz Damian McCarthy’s new horror film arrives ready to play with convention and expectation. The scary thing, though, is that the movie exhausts itself halfway through, revealing Hokum as something closer to hogwash.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Johanna Schneller I suppose money is the real subject of The Devil Wears Prada 2. The problem is, Brosh McKenna and Frankel don’t know whether it’s good or bad.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978) Robert Martin Although director John Berry equips him with a bottle at every opportunity in an effort to recreate the bumbling but lovable charm of Matthau's performance, Curtis is never a sympathetic character.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Fuze (2025) Barry Hertz [Fuze] simply and frequently fails to justify its many swerves, triple crosses and fondness for chaotic shoot-outs. Much like its central plot device, Mackenzie’s film is a bomb hiding in plain sight -- get too close and you’ll be blown to bits.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Mother Mary (2026) Sarah-Tai Black While the film is enthralling to engage with aesthetically, its refusal of more solid structuring elements bogs it down with an at times heavy-handed, slightly hollow poetics that, by the film’s ending, feels underdeveloped and all-too-esoteric.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Blue Heron (2025) Barry Hertz Ultimately, Blue Heron is an epic exploring the power and fissures of memory. But there is no chance that audiences will ever forget what Romvari has accomplished here.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
I Swear (2025) Aparita Bhandari It’s not entirely fair to call I Swear a PSA for inclusion. Above all, it is the story of a man who overcame an extraordinary set of odds to build a simple but meaningful life for himself and foster understanding in others.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Top Gun (1986) Jay Scott As a movie, Top Gun is negligible and near ridiculous; as a cultural phenomenon, it is sobering and faintly frightening.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Jay Scott This is the funniest teen movie I've seen in eons.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Michael (2026) Barry Hertz There is just not enough of a movie to hang those showstopping numbers on. Just as all the note-perfect moves and movie-star magic of a sensational Jaafar Jackson are not enough to ensure his uncle’s story is given the cinematic life that it deserves.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Fight Club (1999) Rick Groen The near-irresistible temptation is to applaud the sheer chutzpah of the thing, to happily confuse the effort with the result. Only after the end credits have rolled, do you start a critical reality-check.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Legend (1985) Jay Scott It's not fair in a film like this, a shambles from beginning to end, to judge the performances, but as Tom Cruise has now become a big star, something should probably be said of his characterization. Something.
Posted Apr 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Maya & Samar (2025) Rachel Ho Without taking the time to properly understand or investigate Samar’s situation, the film itself merely represents a tourist cosplaying compassion while on the ground
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Mile End Kicks (2025) Rachel Ho Few filmmakers can make mouth herpes as comedic or endearing as [Chandler Levack] has.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Radheyan Simonpillai We didn’t even need "mummy" in the title, since Cronin’s version really made a mess of an Exorcist movie that also crams in bits from Don’t Look Now, Hereditary and The Evil Dead.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Follies (2025) Saffron Maeve In any other film, this would surely be overkill, but Follies riffs on it beautifully, poking at the little conspiracies the couples indulge in both films.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Lorne (2026) Barry Hertz Perhaps realizing that his subject isn’t much of a talker, the director deploys a number of framing devices to the doc to enliven things, though many fall flat.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Christophers (2025) Barry Hertz The Christophers finds director Steven Soderbergh continuing his insatiable journey of cinematic exploration, and seemingly having the time of his life.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Barry Hertz Goldhaber, whose previous film was the highly charged 2023 eco-minded docu-heist thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline, has managed again to use the entertainment-first hallmarks of genre filmmaking to tap into the nervous energy of the moment.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Barry Hertz The concept might work for especially patient gamers, but rendered cinematically by director Genki Kawamura, the result is a frustrating and ultimately boring exercise in audience endurance.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) Robert Martin While it's easy to cheer for the Bears' accomplishments on the field, the way in which Devane and Haley are reconciled is cloying and corny.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Liam Lacey At its heights, James and the Giant Peach is a shock of pleasure, a juicy immersion into a world both intriguingly weird and consistently magical.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Victor/Victoria (1982) Jay Scott Fresh or stale, almost everything in Victor/Victoria works to pass the time pleasantly, including the production numbers.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Money From Home (1953) Alex Barris Money From Home may not be the funniest of Martin and Lewis' films, but it should still find a pretty large audience and, judging from past experiences, a rather responsive one.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Grease 2 (1982) Jay Scott Heaven looks like a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want tio sing there.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Movie (1979) Jay Scott Jim Henson's wonderful Muppets, puppets beloved wherever television signals are received, have been given a movie debut as inviting as sauceless pasta.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Drama (2026) Barry Hertz There is some drama here, all right. But the curtain can’t draw down soon enough.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Agatha's Almanac (2025) Barry Hertz Blessedly, it avoids the too-crisp digital sheen of contemporary docs, with the director enlisting cinematographer Rhayne Vermette to capture Agatha on 16mm film, the images so gritty in texture and saturated in colour that they feel unearthed.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Silver Screamers (2025) Barry Hertz The resulting drama, while perhaps predictable in an American Movie meets Cocoon kind of way, is still awfully sweet and warmhearted.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Lover (2025) Barry Hertz If you want to walk away from a film with its particular aroma still sticking to your clothes, then set a date in stone for Dead Lover.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Barry Hertz Whereas a cosmic beast like Cthulhu or Azathoth at least possess all-knowing knowledge in addition to their sanity-breaking powers of terror, a horror like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie retains no vaguely redeeming qualities.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Barry Hertz Even when there are contextual blind spots, such as the film’s too-brief look at the environmental effects of AI data centres, the information that is here is all packaged in a highly entertaining manner.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) Martin Knelman The Bad News Bears is a high because it gives us the pleasure of rooting for the Bears without having our intelligence insulted.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) Robert Martin One of the nicest things about the film is that absolutely nobody is rehabilitated.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Alpha (2025) Barry Hertz Alpha will have either strapped you into the mercy seat, ready to face your final days, or left you itching to escape. Either way, you’ll feel more alive than you have in ages.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
The Second Civil War (1997) John Haslett Cuff Satirically hilarious and depressingly real.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Second Civil War (1997) John Doyle The broad elements of the satire don't click but there are great, off-handed jokes here.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Nika & Madison (2025) Barry Hertz A Canadian spin on Thelma & Louise, the ambitious new drama Nika & Madison has all the fiery spirit of its made-in-Hollywood inspiration, if not quite the narrative dynamism and endless resources.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Things You Kill (2025) Barry Hertz In its bold aesthetic courage and rigid thematic spine, Khatami’s movie is a full-body experience that leaves you fully alive.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) Carole Corbeil The ironic use of every seventies psychological cliche in an unapologetic, unabashed B-movie elevates The Howling to irresistible silliness.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Barry Hertz While writer-director Ian Tuason’s feature debut boasts an eyebrow-raising -- or rather, ear-twitching –--concept, the movie never quite manages to turn up the volume loud enough to drown out the skeptics.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) J. Kelly Nestruck Inside the Manosphere is undercut by questions of who exactly is creating content for whom.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Southern Comfort (2001) Catherine Dawson March For many there's a voyeuristic fascination, especially when Max and Cori talk about their sex lives and inject themselves with hormones, but Southern Comfort is a poignant and engaging story.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
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