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Barry Hertz

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Honey Bunch (2025) 86% EDIT “Glowicki and Petrie are immensely committed and often fearless performers -- so much so that you can see them frequently bouncing against the constraints of the story surrounding them.” – Globe and Mail Jan 20, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% EDIT “A corrupt-cop drama that is mostly aware about its B-minus-movie aspirations, Carnahan’s film is a thoroughly enjoyable if not particularly original mashup of Training Day, Cop Land, Triple 9 and a dozen-plus other films.” – Globe and Mail Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% EDIT “There is more than a flicker of wry wit to Fastvold’s directorial choices, with the film occasionally slipping into a Monty Python-like sensibility, especially during the eccentrically choreographed dance sequences. ” – Globe and Mail Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Mother and the Bear (2024) 89% EDIT “While not everything clicks in The Mother and the Bear, the film will keep you warm enough during the dark days of winter. ” – Globe and Mail Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% EDIT “A period piece of insignificant impact and distressingly drippy intentions, its filmmakers so concerned with their project being considered handsome and respectable that they fail to spark any emotional response beyond the most passive of shoulder shrugs.” – Globe and Mail Jan 8, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “Park’s messaging might not exactly be subtle, but the director once again proves himself to be both a master when it comes to fusing one tone to the next. ” – Globe and Mail Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “Unfortunately, Gormican has completely defanged the central gag. The punchlines don’t land, the action is sloppy, and every actor looks as lost as poor Owen Wilson seemed to be in the original film.” – Globe and Mail Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “Chalamet pulls off the near-impossible, delivering a colossal performance of cockiness and vulnerability, a Wile E. Coyote meets Sammy Glick.” – Globe and Mail Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% EDIT “Nelson doesn’t go nearly far enough in subverting the twinned formulas he is playing with, turning the whole affair into a gory, soggy slog with few surprises and little energy.” – Globe and Mail Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “None of the angsty drama (or the more outright comedic bits) feels cliched or sanitized, with Cooper -- who co-wrote the film with Arnett and his long-time creative partner Mark Chappell -- smart enough to keep things just on the razor’s edge of heavy.” – Globe and Mail Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% EDIT “Getting the two performers into the same room was a genius (if accidentally timed) move on the part of The Housemaid’s producers. But the friction between the pair can only carry a piece of airport-bookstand fluff so far.” – Globe and Mail Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “While The Way of Water’s 192 minutes didn’t so much breeze by as they gently floated, the crushing heft of Fire and Ash can be felt far too often, pushing the entire endeavour past the brink of exhaustion.” – Globe and Mail Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 92% EDIT “[Director Ira Sachs'] choice to keep them (mostly) bound inside of Hujar’s apartment pushes the audience to hang on every line reading, every syllable. It can be slow going, certainly, but it’s always rewarding. Pull up a chair, stay a while.” – Globe and Mail Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% EDIT “The deeper that Resurrection goes, the more that Gan’s vision delicately, meticulously, and, of course, slowly envelopes you, no matter your level of comprehension. ” – Globe and Mail Dec 10, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “Fiery and relentlessly paced (its 158 minutes don’t contain a minute of bloat), the political thriller pivoting around themes of paranoia and resistance feels perfectly tuned to the moment.” – Globe and Mail Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “Unfortunately, those sharper-edged bits and pieces eventually become subsumed by a drippy sentimentality that sticks to you like the crisp white suit that Clooney is often wrapped inside of.” – Globe and Mail Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) 100% EDIT “In so many ways, The Whole Bloody Affair is the movie-est movie to ever be movie’d, with Tarantino generously trepanning his skull wide open in order to provide everyone a direct portal inside his cinema-addled brain. ” – Globe and Mail Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Wrong Husband (2025) EDIT “As ever, Kunuk delivers an engrossing photographic portrait of his homeland that is equally beautiful and intimidating. To capture a landscape so timeless and seemingly endless, the filmmaker embraces a vision of expansiveness. ” – Globe and Mail Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “Wake Up Dead Man is more a vehicle for Josh O’Connor, a rising and thoroughly interesting leading man who nevertheless cannot quite shoulder the dreary, dead weights that Johnson’s script places upon his shoulders.” – Globe and Mail Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Fortescue (2025) EDIT “While Falconer and Preston are both fantastic as two women trying to steady themselves inside a whirlwind, it is Coady who is both handed the biggest challenge and somehow walks away with the show. ” – Globe and Mail Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% EDIT “This is a movie so tiny and inoffensive that it immediately evaporates from memory.” – Globe and Mail Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “The film invites all manner of half-baked comparisons to the work of Terrence Malick... Yet Bentley’s film is cut with remarkable discipline, barely a second of extraneous footage, which allows it to be both contemplative and rather electrifying.” – Globe and Mail Nov 19, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “Presented with every opportunity to say or do something remotely new or compelling, Wright, typically a talented stylist, elects to shrug his shoulders, delivering a wafer-thin confection that is aggressively disinterested in both ideas and action. ” – Globe and Mail Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Trier [delivers] the latest in a long line of elegantly shot films that presume to flatter and nourish audiences but instead end up dulling and starving them with their eager-to-please obviousness. ” – Globe and Mail Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “Considering the subject matter, it would be far too glib to suggest that Vanderbilt’s film is a cinematic mistrial. Yet given that the movie itself reduces history to a series of quips and tropes, maybe not. Guilty as charged.” – Globe and Mail Nov 6, 2025 Full Review
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