Reviews

[Review] Microbe and Gasoline

The two boys of Microbe and Gasoline are pre-naturally wise, casually uttering profound truths about sadness, pain, and time, but the smartest observation come...

[Review] The Secret Life of Pets

From the start, The Secret Life of Pets makes no secret that it is a Toy Story clone, and while it's mostly entertaining, it never truly breaks past these bound...

[Review] Fathers and Daughters

The works of director Gabriele Muccino aren't for everyone. I can't speak on his Italian films, but the American ones are unavoidably cloying and sentimental in...

[Review] Private Property

Over the course of his career, the notoriously hard-living Warren Oates palled around with Dennis Hopper and served as one of many Sam Peckinpah muses. His rela...

[Review] The Legend of Tarzan

They don’t make movies like this anymore. Much has already been said about the death of Hollywood star power, the emergence of brands as movie stars, and their ...

[Review] Buddymoon

When Flula Borg showed up in the Pitch Perfect 2 trailer I found myself smiling at his success. It was a cameo keen to capitalize on his YouTube DJ fame and una...

[Review] The Purge: Election Year

The escalation of terror has dialed up a few more notches as writer/director James DeMonaco takes us further down the hole of first world genocide in The Purge:...

[Review] Our Kind of Traitor

Gorgeous and deliberate, Susanna White's Our Kind of Traitor, adapted from the John le Carré novel, exists in that ever-so murky, gray area of international pol...

[Review] Sleeping Giant

Winner of the Best Canadian First Feature at TIFF and Best Canadian Feature in Vancouver after bowing at Cannes last May, Andrew Cividino's feature-length debut...

[Review] Three

With over fifty films to his name ranging from crime epics to romantic melodramas to anti-capitalist musicals, prolific Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To has long ha...