Reviews

[Review] In a Valley of Violence

Since the start of the millennium, Ti West has been pigeonholed as a horror director, but even from the beginning, his interest in the genre moved far beyond c...

[Review] The Blackcoat’s Daughter

Osgood Perkins’ debut feature, The Blackcoat’s Daughter - originally known as February at its premiere at TIFF last year - is a stylish exercise in dread, teas...

[Review] Diary of a Chambermaid

About halfway through both Jean Renoir’s and Luis Buñuel’s interpretations of Octave Mirbeau’s 1900 class satire, A Diary of A Chambermaid, there’s a scene whe...

[Review] The Conjuring 2

The Conjuring series has developed into probably the apex of contemporary popular horror cinema, about as skillfully made as one can expect a thematically uncha...

[Review] Now You See Me 2

To say that the world of magic or magicians is having a renaissance might be overselling things a bit, but it cannot be denied that films related to the world o...

[Review] Careful What You Wish For

The real mystery is how Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum's Careful What You Wish For got itself a theatrical release in the first place — no matter how limited. I'm no...

[Review] Warcraft

The mortal sin of any movie adaptation based on an intellectual property with a sufficient amount of weirdness or oddity is to be ashamed of its origins. Often ...

[Review] The Witness

In 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was raped and murdered outside her apartment building in New York City. The New York Times made her a focus of national fasc...

[Review] Honeyglue

It's a story about a dragonfly and the princess bee — a girl with terminal cancer and the boy to which she falls love with only three months left to live respec...