‘The Burial’ Review — Jamie Foxx Can’t Save Uneven Courtroom Dramedy
The Burial has all the right ingredients to make an Oscar-friendly movie: it's headlined by two legendary Academy Award winners Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones, it's a courtroom drama that delves into themes of race and injustice, stems from…
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So Woke I’d Rather Choke
After months of avoiding the highest grossing Warner Bros film of all time a screener landed in my inbox and I bit my lip and pressed play. Here’s my Barbie review. 60 minutes into Barbie and I’m scratching my head…
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Great Absence Featured, Reviews Film Threat
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Great Absence is a quiet creature, never clamoring, never rushing, but always observant and always aware. Co-writer-director Kei Chika-ura’s second feature is deeply nestled within the prism-like realm of familial emotions. His perspective is interested in…
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TIFF ’23: KILL Launches A New Star And A New Genre For Bollywood
The Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival is always the place where the most bonkers, outrageous, crazy and wild movies premiere. This year, the honour goes to KILL, a Karan Johar-produced action entertainer that introduces a new…
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Foxx & Jones Let Loose In Entertaining Courtroom Dramedy
Summary The Burial is a captivating film that tells the inspiring story of a small business owner's fight against a corporate giant, highlighting themes of justice and greed. The film seamlessly blends humor, heartwarming family moments, and intense courtroom drama,…
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Elisabeth Scharang’s Mediation On Trauma Is Quiet & Contemplative [TIFF]
A woman attempts to sort through her past while also dealing with the traumatic repercussions of surviving a terrorist attack in Elisabeth Scharang’s elliptical film “Woodland,” based on Doris Knect’s 2015 WALD. A non-linear slow burn that’s more interested in…
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‘Pain Hustlers’ Review – Emily Blunt Is the Wolf of Pharma Creeps
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn't exist.In the past fifteen years, David Yates has made eight movies—seven of…
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‘Close to You’ Review – Elliot Page Endures a Nightmare Family
For the first several minutes of Dominic Savage’s Close to You, there is little to no dialogue as we are introduced to Elliot Page’s Sam. In the humble room that he is renting in Toronto, he awakens and gets ready…
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The Dead Don’t Hurt Featured, Reviews Film Threat
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The Dead Don’t Hurt, Viggo Mortensen’s second film as a writer-director, is a curious beast. It defies and subverts traditional tropes of the western, almost deconstructing it in the same way Unforgiven did. Yet it manages to fit…
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Dumb Money Review: A Rollercoaster Ride Through the GameStop Frenzy
Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money is a cinematic take on the astounding events surrounding the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021, as chronicled in Ben Mezrich’s book, “The Antisocial Network.” This film promises to be a wild, entertaining ride as it brings…
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Keaton Directs & Stars In Overly Ambitious Thriller
Summary Michael Keaton's second feature film, "Knox Goes Away," has several good ideas but suffers from trying to juggle too much at once. The film explores themes of an absentee father reuniting with his son, a hit man's battle with…
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‘Origin’ Review – Ava DuVernay’s Unusual Adaptation Rights Itself in the End
Ava DuVernay has taken on some massive topics and projects in recent years, from bringing Martin Luther King Jr. to the screen with Selma, explaining the prison-industrial complex in 13th, and adapting one of the most beloved YA novels of…
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