By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Making his directorial debut, Jonah Hill has delivered one of the very best movies of the year with Mid90s, an incredibly enjoyable coming of age film that, like its title suggests, transports us back to the 1990s and captures the era perfectly. The indie flick follows Stevie (Sunny… Read More Review: Mid90s

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The tumultuous experience of trying to find help for a loved one with dementia, and the effects that it has on the rest of the family, is explored in What They Had, a believable character-driven film that uses gentle humour and genuine emotion to explore a sensitive topic.… Read More Review: What They Had

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The English-language debut of Belgian filmmaker Felix Van Groeningen, who is best known for his Oscar-nominated 2012 film The Broken Circle Breakdown, Beautiful Boy is a heartbreaking and deeply emotional addiction drama, that is anchored by superb performances from Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. The film is based on a… Read More Review: Beautiful Boy

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Forty years after terrorizing the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night, the silent killer Michael Myers (Nick Castle) returns to once again wreak havoc on October 31st and hunt down Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), who survived his first rampage. Laurie has spent the past forty years… Read More Review: Halloween

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) “I pledge my loyalty to my President and my country and vow to defend them from enemies, both foreign and domestic.” This is the Patriot’s Oath at the centre of The Oath, an uneven but still topical and often entertaining political satire that marks the directorial debut of… Read More Review: The Oath

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When Tupac Shakur talked about the “THUG LIFE”, he said it stood for “The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody.” This is where the title of The Hate U Give comes from, and the meaning of this quote is discussed throughout the film. What Tupac was referring to… Read More Review: The Hate U Give

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Damian Chazelle follows up his Oscar-winning films Whiplash and La La Land with First Man, a space race drama that follows Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) over seven years as he prepares to become the first man to walk on the moon. The film charts Armstrong’s journey from his… Read More Review: First Man

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a kindergarten teacher in New York going through a bit of a midlife crisis, seemingly unhappy with her family life. When she overhears one of her young students, Jimmy (Parker Sevak), reciting a poem he has written, she is convinced that he is… Read More Review: The Kindergarten Teacher

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Based on the true story of the men who built an entire fitness empire from the ground up, Bigger dramatizes the life of Joe Weider (Tyler Hoechlin) and his younger brother Ben (Aneurin Barnard), a pair of working class Jewish kids from Montreal who founded the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition,… Read More Review: Bigger

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The latest film from David Lowery, following his haunting minimalist drama A Ghost Story and his charming remake of Disney’s Pete’s Dragon, The Old Man & The Gun is as light as a feather, and just as buoyant. The film recounts the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford),… Read More Review: The Old Man & The Gun

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on Canadian author Patrick deWitt’s acclaimed book of the same name, The Sisters Brothers follows Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix), a pair of outlaw brothers in 1851, Oregon. The brothers are hired by a mysterious crime boss known only as The Commodore (Rutger Haur)… Read More Review: The Sisters Brothers

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) “I’m falling, in all the good times I find myself longing for change, and in the bad times, I fear myself…” This is the pre-chorus refrain of “Shallow,” the soaring ballad at the centre of A Star is Born that serves as an incredible showcase for the combined… Read More Review: A Star is Born

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest from director Wash Westmoreland, who helped guide Julianne Moore to her first Oscar in Still Alice, Colette is a biopic of French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) that features a similarly awards worthy performance from its lead actress. The film takes place at the turn of the… Read More Review: Colette

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation, which is opening in theatres today fresh off of playing as part of TIFF’s Midnight Madness, is the first movie I have ever seen that opens with a series of “trigger warnings.” These warnings, which are presented in a firmly tongue-in-cheek way and are… Read More Review: Assassination Nation

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest film from Dan Fogelman, best known as the creator of the hit TV show This Is Us, Life Itself is a film that has inspired a myriad of reactions since it premiered at TIFF. I spoke to a lot of people at the festival who loved the… Read More Review: Life Itself