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) How did America get to the point in 2016 where the ubiquitous businessman turned realty show star Donald Trump was able to win the presidency? This is the basic question fuelling Michael Moore’s latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9, a sometimes engaging but mostly frustrating and ultimately overly simplistic and… Read More Review: Fahrenheit 11/9
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
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) An excellent portrait of the late comic superstar Gilda Radner, Love, Gilda is a documentary that strikes just the right balance between being funny and moving. The film takes us through the entirety of her career, from her early start in the star-studded Toronto production of Godspell, to her big break… Read More Review: Love, Gilda
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A remake of the 1973 film of the same name, which was itself adapted from a bestselling autobiography, this new version of Papillon finds Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek taking over the roles that were originally played by Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. It’s finally opening in theatres… Read More Review: Papillon
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The latest from indie filmmaker Josephine Decker, Madeline’s Madeline is the sort of artsy, experimental film that will either work for you or it won’t. After its overhyped debut at Sundance back in January, the film is starting to make its way in front of regular audiences now.… Read More Review: Madeline’s Madeline
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Desiree Akhavan made her filmmaking debut with Appropriate Behaviour in 2014, a semi-autobiographical film that she wrote, directed and starred in as a bisexual Brooklynite trying to balance her sexuality with the expectations of her more traditional Persian family. It was a small but enjoyable film that put a… Read More Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Named for the Spanish word for “heaven,” Cielo is a documentary that takes a long look at the night sky in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Directed by Alison McAlpine, the film focuses on the scientists and astronomers who have devoted their lives to studying what goes on up above at… Read More Review: Cielo
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood, where Christopher Robin plays, you will find the enchanted neighbourhood, of Christopher’s childhood days… These song lyrics, etched into my mind from the many, many times I heard them as a kid, took on even deeper meaning for me when I was… Read More Review: Christopher Robin
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Don’t mess with the dead. That’s the main lesson to be learned from Our House, a small but entertaining new ghost story from director Anthony Scott Burns that is itself a remake of Matt Osterman’s 2010 indie film Ghost From the Machine. The film follows Ethan (Thomas Mann)… Read More Review: Our House
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A disappointingly shallow followup of sorts to her excellent 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, Generation Wealth finds photographer and documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield painting a much broader portrait of the destruction that can be caused by affluence and greed in modern society. The film serves as a… Read More Review: Generation Wealth
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The latest from director Gus Van Sant, mining similar territory as his Oscar-winning 1997 drama Good Will Hunting, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is based on the life of controversial quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Callahan, and much of the… Read More Review: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher) is having trouble finding her place in middle school, and the final week of her last academic year before starting high school is charted in Eighth Grade. The film opens with Kayla filming one of the videos for her YouTube channel, where she tries… Read More Review: Eighth Grade
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) What if the rise and fall of Elvis Presley could be seen as a microcosm of America itself, symbolizing nothing less than the birth and death of the American Dream? This is the basic concept behind The King, a damn near stunning new documentary from director Eugene Jarecki,… Read More Review: The King
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When the 19-year-old Bobby arrived at college in 1980, he was treated like a familiar face, despite the fact that he didn’t know anyone. As it turns out, they had mistaken him for Eddy, an identical twin that he never knew existed. The story of these two long… Read More Review: Three Identical Strangers
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A biopic of the Frankenstein author, Mary Shelley takes the pretty extraordinary story behind one of the most beloved horror novels of all time, and turns it into a decently acted but otherwise fairly ordinary costume drama. The film opens with Mary (Elle Fanning) as a free-spirited teenager living… Read More Review: Mary Shelley
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When we first meet Will (Ben Foster) and his adolescent daughter Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) in Leave No Trace, they are living a secluded life in the middle of a large urban forest in Portland, Oregon, sharing a small tent and foraging for food. We don’t really know how… Read More Review: Leave No Trace
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The Carlyle has seen its share of famous guests over the years, ranging from actors and rock stars to politicians and royalty, and now the famous New York City hotel is the centre of attention in Matthew Miele’s glossy new documentary Always at the Carlyle. Situated in the… Read More Review: Always at the Carlyle
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Set in the seedy underground world of Toronto tow-truck drivers, 22 Chaser follows Ben (Brian J. Smith), a driver for the Jackrabbit towing company who is trying to make an honest living, but is stuck doing by-law duty and finds himself struggling to support his wife (Tiio Horn) and… Read More Review: 22 Chaser
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