Toronto Star
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/4
What the movie lacks in narrative flow, it makes up for in action scenes and character appeal.
Posted Feb 21, 2019
2
3/4
Never Look Away (2019)
There is horror and beauty in this film, and sometimes both at the same time...
Posted Feb 21, 2019
3
3/4
Fighting with My Family (2019)
Upending expectations may be the biggest victory of all for this movie.
Posted Feb 21, 2019
4
2/4
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
It's more of a scavenger hunt than a movie.
Posted Feb 14, 2019
5
2.5/4
If this is a "B" Asghar Farhadi film, it's still better than the "A" efforts of many other filmmakers.
Posted Feb 14, 2019
6
1.5/4
Isn't It Romantic (2019)
A sloppily written story that fails as both romance and comedy.
Posted Feb 12, 2019
7
1.5/4
8
3/4
Arctic (2019)
It would be easier to count the words spoken in Joe Penna's survival thriller Arctic than the number of beats your heart skips while watching it.
Posted Feb 7, 2019
9
3/4
Cold Pursuit (2019)
Cold Pursuit is the kind of film action fans will embrace, a decent antidote to cabin fever.
Posted Feb 7, 2019
10
2/4
The Prodigy (2019)
11
2.5/4
The Last Resort (2018)
It builds a yearning to visit a vibrant, chromatic place in time that's 40 years gone.
Posted Jan 31, 2019
12
2.5/4
Miss Bala (2019)
13
3/4
Wonders of the Sea 3D (2019)
A film that displays the beauty and complexity of the world beneath the waves while issuing an urgent clarion call for action.
Posted Jan 31, 2019
14
2/4
Serenity (2019)
The film's maritime setting has a certain aptness because Serenity has all the hallmarks of a fish tale. Unfortunately, Knight lets this one get away.
Posted Jan 26, 2019
15
3/4
Jean-Luc Godard is a lion in winter. He fairly roars in The Image Book, his new film that serves as a visual essay about life on planet Earth.
Posted Jan 24, 2019
16
3.5/4
Cold War (Zimna wojna) (2018)
Pawlikowski remains a director to watch and Cold War is a film to watch again and again.
Posted Jan 24, 2019
17
1/4
Glass (2019)
Shyamalan is so intent on not making a conventional superhero movie, he ends up not making much of a movie at all. This Glass isn't half-empty; it's not even one-third full.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
18
3/4
Stan & Ollie (2019)
19
3.5/4
Destroyer (2018)
An astonishing and haunting performance by Nicole Kidman... demonstrates she is the peak of her skills as an actor.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
20
4/4
Capernaum (Capharnaüm) (2018)
Capernaum is an absolute heartbreaker about children in peril and the plight of undocumented people.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
21
2.5/4
The Upside (2019)
Despite the plentitude of opera and Aretha, there just isn't much here that soars and thrills.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
22
3.5/4
Vividly sketches African-American lives on an Alabama trek that bypasses stereotypes and narrative conceit, proceeding directly to empathy.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
23
3/4
Wildlife (2018)
Few could play a character so ordinary with as much empathy as Oxenbould brings to the role. He's one to watch, here and in the future.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
24
3/4
Lifechanger (2018)
Nothing detracts from the cracking pace that an 84-minute movie demands. Even the gore is efficient.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
25
3/4
Vice (2018)
The singular achievement of Vice may be its depiction of Cheney as more than a punch line and more than the mwah-hah-hah plotter behind George W.'s "What, me worry?" demeanour.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
26
3/4
On the Basis of Sex (2019)
Leder draws lovely performances across the board, bringing clarity and warmth to a complicated but important historical moment.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
27
3.5/4
If Beale Street Could Talk (2019)
Like a great bluesman, Moonlight's Barry Jenkins finds poetry in the lives of people struggling to surpass pain and cruel circumstances, often choosing beautiful images over words.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
28
0.5/4
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
Remarkably ham-fisted and tone deaf throughout.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
29
2/4
Vox Lux (2018)
Vox Lux plays like the loveless and cynical flip side to Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
30
1.5/4
Aquaman (2018)
None of it makes a ripple of sense, even when blown up to IMAX 3D size.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
31
3.5/4
Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) (2018)
A moving meditation on what truly constitutes the meaning of family.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
32
2.5/4
Mirai (2018)
There's enough wisdom to be found in this engaging tale for a trip to the theatre. Whether to take the whole family is up to parents to decide.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
33
3/4
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
There's more than a spoonful of sugar in this felicitous revisitation.
Posted Dec 18, 2018
34
4/4
The film's take-home message, if you want to call it that, is that we all have a little Spidey in us: "What makes you different is what makes you Spider-Man."
Posted Dec 13, 2018
35
2/4
Mortal Engines (2018)
There is almost no character development, the dialogue is stilted and the story itself is rather absurd.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
36
4/4
Ben is Back (2018)
Hedges' story brings it all together in a story that is urgent and unexpectedly suspenseful right down to the final frame.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
37
2/4
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
The movie tries to have it both ways, by remaining mostly true to history while also taking numerous factual liberties.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
38
3/4
The Mule (2018)
A man's restless quest for meaning and connection in an increasingly illogical and divided America.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
39
3/4
Once Upon a Deadpool (2018)
It's a clever cash snatch... and actually makes for a mildly funnier film.
Posted Dec 12, 2018
40
3.5/4
The Favourite (2018)
I command you to see it.
Posted Dec 6, 2018
41
3/4
As this doc shows, he went as low as he could possibly go, until his repugnant behaviour finally caught up with him - as it must to all such men.
Posted Dec 6, 2018
42
3.5/4
Inspirational in all the right ways.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
43
4/4
Roma (2018)
Roma will be tough to beat as the best film of 2018.
Posted Nov 29, 2018
44
3/4
His energy never seems to flag, in a film that pays full tribute to him - while also sounding the alarm that his work is more urgent than ever.
Posted Nov 29, 2018
45
3/4
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
It's a story both ecstatic and tragic, and Schnabel is more interested in the former than the latter.
Posted Nov 23, 2018
46
3/4
Border (Gräns) (2018)
It... gnaws at the brain for its subliminal messages about how we treat the people in our midst who don't fit whatever definition of "normal" we're carrying around with us.
Posted Nov 23, 2018
47
3.5/4
48
3/4
Creed II (2018)
49
2/4
Robin Hood (2018)
Sure, there are some decent action scenes and star Taron Egerton has loads of insouciant charm. But that's about it. The rest is sporadically engaging drivel.
Posted Nov 21, 2018
50
3/4
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)