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3.5/5
Honey Bunch (2025) Alison Gillmor Flawed but still fascinating, this Canadian horror flick is also, at times, an oddly sweet and sincere love story.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Alison Gillmor There’s dark humour and some sly, intriguing performances, but there’s also something missing. Dead Man’s Wire throws out heady ideas but never really follows them up.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Resurrection (2025) Alison Gillmor Resurrection can be unwieldy and opaque — and its biggest thematic ambitions might remain unrealized — but as it explores the ways cinema can transcend space and time, Bi’s super-meta movie is a stylistic and technical tour de force.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Mother and the Bear (2024) Randall King Winnipeg can look pretty bleak on film, but Briones, outsider though he may be, proves adept in finding the visual magic of this godforsaken place.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
A Few Good Men (1992) Randall King ...the movie is a satisfying courtroom drama, although director Rob Reiner is inclined to water down things with some comic touches that seem to be borrowed from his previous movie - When Harry Met Sally.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Alison Gillmor Most sports flicks offer uplifting story arcs and characters you can root for. Marty Supreme goes its own wild way, with darkly funny performances and some brash, bravura filmmaking.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Alison Gillmor Director Derek Drymon and scripters Pam Brady and Matt Leiberman respect the basic Bikini Bottom fundamentals, but the plotting feels needlessly complicated and the gags can be repetitive.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Dracula (2025) Alison Gillmor From dirty folk tales to Dracula TikTok, the film is a crazed, meta mix of the profound and the puerile, the silly and the nasty.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Randall King The new iteration of Silent Night redeems the source material with a fresh take that, uncomfortably, compels the audience to be more sympathetic to its designated psycho.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Alison Gillmor Groff is the conflicted centre of the story, but Radcliffe and Mendez both deliver dramatically and musically expressive portrayals, so this three-sided friendship feels beautifully balanced and emotionally real.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Alison Gillmor Filmmaker Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig have pulled off a playful, theatrical, well-crafted entertainment, one that’s cleverly self-aware about its whodunit tropes while still thoroughly enjoying them.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Meadowlarks (2025) Randall King Meadowlarks earns its tears, both from the characters and, inevitably, from the audience.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Nuremberg (2025) Alison Gillmor Nuremberg is not outright awful, but it’s not nearly as serious or thoughtful as it thinks it is. It’s the most frustrating kind of mediocre movie, one that is haunted by a sense it could have been — and should have been — much, much better.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Hedda (2025) Alison Gillmor As played by Thompson, Hedda remains intriguingly enigmatic right until the film’s last frame.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Blue Moon (2025) Alison Gillmor Scripter Kaplow is both emotionally generous and sharply insightful, and Linklater leans into the film’s tight parameters with craft and commitment.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Alison Gillmor The prison sequences are so good that the musical numbers increasingly feel like irritating interruptions, dragging down the film as a whole.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
John Candy: I Like Me (2025) Alison Gillmor Hanks could have trusted more in the emotional effectiveness of these interviews. Instead, he tends to back them with a bombardment of quick-cut visual images, as if worried his viewers might get bored.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Anemone (2025) Alison Gillmor Examining images of masculinity — the hard man, the silent man, the solitary man — Anemone can’t quite decide whether it’s a deconstruction of these tropes or a deification.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Think at Night (2023) Alison Gillmor Often enigmatic, even abstract, the film gradually loops in a loose kind of narrative, which then narrows into a wonderfully obsessive central paradox.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Casper (1995) Randall King The resulting hi-jinks amount to another calculated hit along the lines of The Flintstones from Universal Studios, who seem to have designed this movie as one big theme park tie-in.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Eleanor the Great (2025) Alison Gillmor By the end of Eleanor the Great, Squibb has made us laugh. She’s made us cry. But this misguided movie can’t quite bring those two modes together.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Alison Gillmor While offering almost nothing new, this Grand Finale will provide reliable comfort viewing and a fitting farewell for Downton devotees.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Long Walk (2025) Randall King They’re all very good performers, especially Plummer, but Hoffman and Jonsson hold the centre of the film. Hoffman has a natural charm, providing much-needed warmth in the chilling premise.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Roses (2025) Alison Gillmor If the Roses’ relationship is thorny, Colman and Cumberbatch are a perfect comic match, and the story’s ending, though different from the original, still manages to deliver a jolt of black humour.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Honey Don't! (2025) Alison Gillmor The film ends up feeling a bit like Honey’s ideal sexual encounter: it’s dirty, fast and fun while it lasts, and then immediately forgotten.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
War of the Worlds (2025) Alison Gillmor It’s possessed by a particularly icky and exasperating and banal kind of badness, a quintessentially 2025 kind of badness.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Nobody 2 (2025) Randall King Odenkirk continues his streak as a late-in-life action hero. He maintains a wry sense of humour, but he is never spoofy. He holds his action responsibilities as one does a sacred vow.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) Alison Gillmor There are a few clunky moments from inexperienced cast members in minor roles, but the lead performances are remarkably assured.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Freakier Friday (2025) Alison Gillmor It’s overly busy and not particularly original, but it manages a sweet, hokey vibe and benefits from return performances — now even more lived-in — by Curtis and Lohan.
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Together (2025) Alison Gillmor Though the story is slightly weakened by the perfunctory treatment of Tim’s family tragedy and by an overly abrupt and tied-up conclusion, this is a clever, capable debut feature.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Alison Gillmor Bright, peppy and fun, this fresh take on the Fantastic Four — helmed by WandaVision director Matt Shakman — mostly succeeds.
Posted Jul 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Eddington (2025) Alison Gillmor Eddington might be hoping to free us, but its disjointed, stretched-out narrative and inflammatory images might just further entrench us.
Posted Jul 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Superman (2025) Alison Gillmor While Gunn is seeding in some serious messages about power and responsibility, the delivery system is defiantly goofy. As a superhero movie, Superman is a bit scattershot, a bit crowded, a bit rushed, but it’s always fun.
Posted Jul 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Alison Gillmor By the end, Jurassic World Rebirth feels like a barely fleshed-out Universal theme-park ride — sort of fun and completely forgettable.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
F1 The Movie (2025) Julia-Simone Rutgers The cinematography aspects, hands down, one of the coolest things you can watch, absolutely see it on the biggest screen possible, the loudest theatre.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
F1 The Movie (2025) Scott Billeck I never felt the movie was too long.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
F1 The Movie (2025) Ben Sigurdson I thought the the racing aspects of the film were phenomenal.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
April (2024) Alison Gillmor If April requires patience and concentration and labour from its viewers, by its shattering conclusion, it also rewards them.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
When We Became Folk Fest (2025) Alison Gillmor There isn’t a strong narrative line — it’s more about vibes — but the doc gently touches on a cluster of related ideas.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
The Gold Rush (1925) WFP Staff Chaplin senses, and expresses more than any other entertainer, the close affinity between the ludicrous and the pathetic: his comedy springs from within -- more as a matter of mood than of circumstance.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
28 Years Later (2025) Alison Gillmor Fiennes’s terrifically weird turn is matched by nuanced performances by Comer and Taylor-Johnson, as well as standout work from the 14-year-old Williams, who carries this story on his narrow shoulders.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Life of Chuck (2024) Randall King Flanagan’s gift holds firm here. Stressing the humanistic, his film is ultimately a celebration of creativity, whether that takes the form of brazenly dancing in the street, or engaging in a secret creative process for an audience of one.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Endless Cookie (2025) Randall King It’s a freewheeling trip.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Alison Gillmor The charm often feels forced and twee, the artifice frequently hardens into rigidity, and that tricky Andersonian balance of irony and sentiment is way, way off.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) Alison Gillmor The settings, central characters and lead performances are all lovely, in an understated way.
Posted Jun 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Friendship (2024) Alison Gillmor This anarchistic comic take on bad bromance is also a startlingly effective comment on 21st-century loneliness.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Clown in a Cornfield (2025) Randall King The film itself is plenty clever but one wishes director Craig embraced his smarts instead of being slavishly faithful to the tropes of ‘80s slashers.
Posted May 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg (2025) Alison Gillmor Unfortunately, The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg never makes good on its premise. This is the lite version of cinematic introspection.
Posted May 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
On Swift Horses (2024) Alison Gillmor Awash in atmosphere and packed with minty mid-century detail, this is a self-consciously stylish film.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Wedding Banquet (2025) Alison Gillmor Even though The Wedding Banquet can be a bit earnest and obvious and explication-heavy, there’s something appealing about its warm affirmation of queer found families.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
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