New Releases
Comedy 'Canadian Strain' Offers a Harsh Toke About the Other Side of Legalization
PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2020
Anne Banting is so much more than a weed dealer. She's a healer, a gardener, a friend and a businesswoman. She boasts a menagerie of loyal...
'Bloodshot' Is a Junk Action Movie Assembled from Broken Parts
Directed by Dave Wilson
PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2020
As Bloodshot, the new Vin Diesel action vehicle, hits cinemas, it is becoming very clear that the algorithm is broken. This doesn't so much...
'Spenser Confidential' Is an Action-Comedy Slog
Directed by Peter Berg
PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2020
Belonging in a bargain bin, but currently on Netflix's front page, Spenser Confidential is an action-comedy film starring Mark Walhberg and...
'The Hunt' Explores Political Division with the Subtlety of a Trump Tweet
Directed by Craig Zobel
PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2020
As a commentary on America's political divide, The Hunt has all the subtlety of a Trump tweet. It concerns a group of wealthy neo-liberals...
'The Way Back' Has Too Much Ben Affleck, Not Enough Sports
Directed by Gavin O'Connor
PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2020
We like sports movies because they string a compelling narrative of triumph punctuated with melodramatic music through an already viscerall...
'Greed' Lacks the Bite Its White Colllar Satire Really Needs
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2020
In 2010, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg played a pair of amiable dumbass cops in Adam McKay's The Other Guys. The movie was packed with the...
'Emma.' Is a Sexy and Playful Austen Adaptation
Directed by Autumn de Wilde
PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2020
After a storied career of photographing and directing music videos for bands like Arcade Fire and the White Stripes, Autumn de Wilde uses h...
'Run This Town' Is a Frantic Telling of Toronto's Rob Ford Era That Kinda Misses the Point
Directed by Ricky Tollman
PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2020
It takes no acumen in political analysis to conclude that Rob Ford's tenure as Toronto's 64th mayor was an embarrassment of riches if you h...
