film reviews

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  TIFF 2024: 'The Last Showgirl' Ushers In the Pamassaince

  Directed by Gia Coppola

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2024

  The Pamaissance is here. After 2022's 'Pam & Tommy' reappraised Pamela Anderson as a sympathetic hero, the 2023 doc 'Pamela, a love story'...

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  TIFF 2024: A Budding Cinematic Talent Sprouts in 'Seeds'

  Directed by Kaniehtiio Horn

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2024

  Many of us learned about colonialism in school, but 'Seeds' reminds viewers that Canadian colonialism isn't simply a thing of the past...

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  The Tragically Hip's 'No Dress Rehearsal' Tears Down the Myth While Honouring the Legacy

  Directed by Mike Downie

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2024

  The Tragically Hip are truly "Canada's band" — both because of the quintessentially Canuck content of Gord Downie's lyrics, and because the...

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  'The Front Room' Scatelogically Squanders a Great Performance

  Directed by Max and Sam Eggers

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2024

  This year has given audiences no shortage of messy, campy horror films with eccentric villains at their heart — from Nicolas Cage's creepy...

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  'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Is Yet Another Disappointing Legacy Sequel

  Directed by Tim Burton

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2024

  Sequels and reboots and remakes, oh my! Audiences have been subjected to these kinds of films for years, but it feels more and more...

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  'The Crow' Is Caws for Concern

  Directed by Rupert Sanders

  PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2024

  James O'Barr's graphic novel 'The Crow' isn't a dense text. Its core themes aren't so thickly packed in metaphor as to obscure their...

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  Season 4 of 'Only Murders in the Building' Has Reached a Moment of Reckoning

  Created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman

  PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2024

  For Only Murders in the Building's fourth season, the whimsical investigative trio return to their usual hijinx to solve the murder of Sazz...

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  'Strange Darling' Has One of the Year's Most Subtle, Staggering Performances

  Directed by JT Mollner

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2024

  JT Mollner's 'Strange Darling' understands and trusts lead Willa Fitzgerald to the point of sweaty, lip-licking ecstasy. The film lets her...