By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) “We’re not homeless,” Rosie Davis (Sarah Greene) insists to a family member partway through the Irish drama Rosie, taking issue with their use of the word. “We’re just lost,” she adds, as if trying to convince herself so she doesn’t have to face the truth. When we first… Read More Review: Rosie
By John Corrado The 17th annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival kicks off tonight in Toronto, showcasing a total of six timely and relevant films over the next six nights, most of which played at other Toronto festivals over the past year. All of the screenings will be taking place at the Hot Docs Ted… Read More Previewing the 2020 Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The sixth entry into the Terminator franchise started by James Cameron in 1984, Terminator: Dark Fate serves as a direct follow up to Cameron’s groundbreaking 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day and, for better or for worse, essentially ignores the events of the other three films that happened… Read More Blu-ray Review: Terminator: Dark Fate
By John Corrado One of the most overlooked movies of last year was Edward Norton’s excellent, 1950s-set detective movie Motherless Brooklyn, which he directs and stars in as a New York City private investigator living with Tourette syndrome. The film seemed to come and go in theatres with not enough fanfare, but it’s arriving on Blu-ray… Read More Blu-ray Review: Motherless Brooklyn
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Robert Eggers established himself as a filmmaker to watch with his 2015 debut The Witch, a period piece horror movie set in the 1600s that played with a moody aesthetic and a strong sense of atmosphere. Eggers has more than lived up to this early promise with his… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Lighthouse
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The zombie comedy is hardly a new invention, and we already have films like Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland and its recent sequel, the teen romance Warm Bodies, as well as the delightful musical Anna and the Apocalypse to prove it’s a genre mashup that can work. Now… Read More Blu-ray Review: Little Monsters
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Whether you agreed with her or not, there’s simply no denying that Pauline Kael was one of the most influential film critics of the 20th century, a writer whose often controversial opinions were sometimes hurtful and sometimes helpful, but always uniquely hers. Even when her contrarian views put… Read More Review: What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Symbolically named after Victor Hugo’s classic 1862 novel about poverty and injustice, and the beloved musical that it subsequently inspired, director Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables is a modern day fable about racial tensions and police brutality in contemporary France that explores how a series of events can bubble… Read More Review: Les Misérables
By John Corrado Eddie Murphy has been enjoying a bit of a resurgence lately, from his explosive comeback performance in Dolemite Is My Name to the upcoming Coming to America sequel set to arrive at the end of the year. Now one of Murphy’s most famous characters, the street-smart Detroit cop Axel Foley who ends… Read More Blu-ray Review: Beverly Hills Cop 3-Movie Collection
By John Corrado Ang Lee’s Gemini Man was one of the more curious big budget films to be released last year, and it’s arriving on 4K Ultra HD this week in a set that also includes a regular Blu-ray of the film. The film offers the Oscar-winning director a chance to play around with new… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Gemini Man
By John Corrado A sequel to the 2014 film, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil finds Aurora (Elle Fanning) preparing to marry Prince Philip (Harris Dickinson), leading to increasing tensions between her stepmother Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) and the human world, with Queen Ingrith (Michelle Pfeiffer) waging an all-out war against the magical realm. The film is arriving… Read More Blu-ray Review: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) There were few films in 2019 that made as much pre-release noise as Joker did. Directed by Todd Phillips, in a radical change of pace from comedies like The Hangover and Old School, the R-rated film offers a dark and gritty take on the Batman villain’s origin story that… Read More Blu-ray Review: Joker
By John Corrado With 2019 officially in the rearview mirror, and 2020 already a few days in, it’s time for my countdown of the best movies of last year. It was a year that saw the release of some great movies, and also closed out a decade of moviegoing that saw the release of some… Read More The Best Movies of 2019
By John Corrado The calendars have already turned over to 2020, but 2019 would not be complete without my annual countdowns of the best movies and documentaries of the previous year. Per tradition, I have once again broken up these lists, because I want to pay tribute to as many of these films as possible.… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2019
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Some movies get better the second time you watch them and, for me at least, Uncut Gems, the latest film from brothers Josh and Benny Safdie following up their brilliant, live-wire 2017 thriller Good Time, is absolutely one of them. In fact, my rating jumped up by a… Read More Review: Uncut Gems
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