TIFF Journal: Boy Erased
In Boy Erased, Joel Edgerton directs a coming-of-age drama about conversion therapy, the dubious and often destructive practice of attempting to “cure” homosexuality through a combination of half-baked psychological pr...
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‘Gringo’ Review: Snatch-o
Aussie cinema has been ramping up over the last dozen years, but the country’s films haven’t quite broken into the American mainstream yet. While Nash Edgerton’s gritty dark comedy ‘Gringo’ doesn̵...
‘Red Sparrow’ Review: Bird-Brained Sleaze
The big problem with the soon-to-be-forgotten ‘Red Sparrow’ is that it can never quite decide what movie it wants to be. Is this the blockbustery spy romp and Black Widow knockoff like the trailers suggest? Or is it a ...
‘It Comes at Night’ Review: A Dark Apocalypse
Kind of a zombie movie without the zombies and certainly a film without hope, ‘It Comes at Night’ is a brutal, gut-wrenching and cynical stab at the apocalyptic pandemic genre. Don’t go unless you want to feel wo...
‘Loving’ Review: Heartfelt Historical Honesty
‘Loving’ is one of those true life inspirational stories that tend to come out around Oscar season and coast by on message rather than content. Thankfully, this is one of the few examples that lives up to its origin an...
TIFF Journal: ‘Loving’
‘Loving’ is one of those important historical dramas about groundbreaking folks who changed America. It’s also an incredibly intimate character study of two simple people uncertain of why their pure love could ca...
‘Midnight Special’ Review: Zod v. Kylo Ren – Da
There are several ways in which ‘Midnight Special’ feels like a throwback. In movie geekery terms, the film plays as an homage to the mystery, complexity, wonderment and technical mastery that young Steven Spielberg an...
TIFF Journal: ‘Black Mass’
The tale of Boston crime lord James “Whitey” Bulger is so good that it’s surprising it took this long for someone to make a movie out of it… or at least an official bio-pic anyway. Martin Scorsese flavored his &#...
‘The Gift’ Review: A Clear and Present Danger
Generally speaking, directorial debuts from actors should be approached with absolute dread. Just because an actor reaches a level of fame that makes it possible to get a movie made doesn’t mean he or she really has the chop...
‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ Review: An Unexpected ‘
The strangest major studio release last spring was Darren Aronofsky’s wacky ‘Noah’. In a perverse way, it makes sense that 2014 should wrap up with another ambiguous Old Testament blockbuster. Ridley Scott’...
Now Playing: ‘Gatsby’, Actually Pretty Great
Director Baz Luhrmann has created a grand opus filled with shiny costumes, modern music, magical camera tricks and classical early Hollywood filmmaking to once again bring to life F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved and iconic nov...
Now Playing: ‘Timothy Green’ Is People!
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with watching a little sentimental movie from time to time. While ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green’ isn’t the best film of this sort, it’s fortunately far from the worst...