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Radheyan Simonpillai

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Mercy (2026) 24% EDIT “Mercy makes a damning case, not against the new technology that’s flooding our current reality with unreality, but against itself.” – Globe and Mail Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% EDIT “One of the best and most daring films I got to see over the past year.” – CBC Radio Jan 21, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “The Bone Temple doesn’t quite live up to the earlier film’s promise. At best, it’s an ambitious and compelling enough staging ground biding time, with cruel violence more stomach-turning than ever, as it sets up the already-in-the-works final chapter.” – Globe and Mail Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “Without some spectacular new vision or technological innovation, you’re left to really grapple with how stilted the drama can be and those nagging, troubling tropes borne from Avatar's white saviour narrative.” – CBC Radio Dec 20, 2025 Full Review Heat (1995) 84% EDIT “Heat ticks along on the dueling performances from Pacino and De Niro, the former’s blustery swagger a stark contrast to the cool, carefully curated composure of the latter. Those kinds of competing notes could be found and savoured across the movie.” – Guardian Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% EDIT “Ella McCay, the movie, feels like we’re being bear hugged by a lovable, slightly boozy old grand-uncle who genuinely hopes to find common ground with a new generation, but also can’t help being a little patronizing.” – Globe and Mail Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “You'd expect a Knives Out movie to be snarky about religion, but Wake Up Dead Man is surprisingly curious and gracious when asking what it means to hold on to your beliefs (and humanity), while so many extremely online are trying to impose theirs.” – CBC Radio Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% EDIT “These are rom-com setups without sharp wit, big laughs or even the romantic chemistry, despite best efforts from Olsen. ” – Globe and Mail Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “Like Fruit Loops that had been left sitting in a bowl of milk for too long – those bright solid colours bleeding out and leaving nothing but a soggy mess.” – Globe and Mail Nov 18, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “Overly familiar debates around ethics and consequences are tossed around as if in an echo chamber, all the while losing their sense of urgency.” – Globe and Mail Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “The struggle for Cianfrance is getting the tone right with a story about a superficially chivalrous thief who nurtures a sense of kinship with the people he ultimately victimizes.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Bad Boys (1995) 46% EDIT “Instead of drowning out his stars with this maximalism, Bay’s style instead puts them on a pedestal. That feels especially ground-breaking since this was the rare studio action movie at the time starring not one but two Black leads.” – Guardian Sep 27, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “You’re getting the best of both PTAs. One Battle After Another has all the filmmaking mastery of Paul Thomas Anderson's late-career style but is as accessible and entertaining as his earlier work, more so really.” – CBC Radio Sep 27, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% EDIT “The filmmakers are not equipped to handle the conversation about concussions and race in the NFL but that didn't stop them from using that topicality to make this genre exercise (with marketing aesthetics) saleable. ” – CBC Radio Sep 23, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “Kogonada fills the vacuousness in the script with knowing nods to all the performance and illusion we commit to when taking the leap – whether in love or (in its meta way) at the movies. ” – Globe and Mail Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “A bit too whispery and in love with its atmosphere, but Jesse Buckley’s heartwrenching performance during the heavy moments had a chorus of sobs ringing out in the theatre I saw it in (and had my pretty teary-eyed too).” – CBC Radio Sep 13, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “Undoubtedly one of the year's best, It Was Just An Accident is yet another moving, prickly and hopeful morality tale from Panahi about people (and a society) trying to find a way forward while processing the trauma of the past.” – CBC Radio Sep 13, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “Emotionally unrelenting and distressing (could have easily slipped into misery porn if in the hands of someone like Darren Aronofsky) but Mary Bronstein makes room for humour, warmth and humanity, all of which is found in Byrne's incredible performance.” – CBC Radio Sep 13, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “Emily Blunt is the heavyweight performer delivering an electric charge to a somewhat dramatically flat answer to Raging Bull.” – CBC Radio Sep 13, 2025 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 86% EDIT “Elvis is a hypnotic stage presence, even when just mumbling off sounds with his deep baritone while swiveling his hips, the dexterity in his voice unhindered by antics like swallowing a mic whole.” – Guardian Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% EDIT “The new film from co-writer and director Hikari is enamoured (or even consumed) by the very artificiality it’s about, and too timid to scratch past the surface in a way that might threaten the easy laughs and mawkishness it’s ultimately after. ” – Guardian Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “The point Vanderbilt perhaps unintentionally skirts, is how ultimately hollow the spectacle at Nuremberg can feel; not just in his movie, but since prosecuting war crimes and establishing international law has done nothing to prevent atrocities in Gaza.” – Guardian Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Ne Zha II (2025) 91% EDIT “Dozens of characters come through, give you a minute-long monologue about their complicated backstory, and then go to battle. It can be exhausting. But the animation, and the world building, can be really spectacular.” – CBC Radio Aug 23, 2025 Full Review KPop Demon Hunters (2025) 92% EDIT “Trends collide together in this glittery cornucopia of a movie that hits all these sensations at once. This is a movie where every battle scene is presented like a music video. And that’s really fun, and catchy.” – CBC Radio Aug 23, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% 3/5 EDIT “These characters and more don’t so much connect (to each other or some overarching plot) as they brush past each other. But Honey’s time with them makes it all worthwhile, because Qualley is such a commanding force.” – Guardian Aug 21, 2025 Full Review
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