Reviews
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‘Orphan Black’ Review S02E07: “Knowledge of Causes, and Secret Motions of Things”
BBC America This is how good the most recent episode of Orphan Black is – not only did I not miss Helena, but I didn’t…
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Cannes Review: David Cronenberg Heads to Hollywood Using ‘Maps to the Stars’
eOne Entertainment Canadian auteur David Cronenberg has a well-documented fascination with seeing social systems disrupted by chaos, whether they be romantic (The Fly), domestic (A…
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Cannes Review: ‘Mommy’ Ushers in This Generation’s Problem Child
Les Films Seville When Diane Després (Anne Dorval) signs her name to have son Steve (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) released from a teenage care facility, she scrawls her…
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‘We Are the Best!’ Review: This Is What Pure Joy Looks, Sounds and Feels Like
Magnolia Pictures I don’t think I’ve ever been a young, preteen, Swedish girl trying to form a punk band in the early ’80s, but if…
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‘Night Moves’ Review: Young and Restless and Bored and Blowing Up Dams
Editor’s note: Our review of Night Moves originally ran during last year’s TIFF, but we’re re-posting it now as the film opens in limited theatrical…
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‘Maleficent’ Review: Sleeping Beauty Plays Second Fiddle to Angelina Jolie’s Much Maligned Witch
Walt Disney Pictures A quick re-watch for anyone with a hazy memory of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty reveals that the 1959 film has a lot of problems…
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‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ Review: One Way to Do Comedy Wrong in a Western
Universal Pictures You might think that Seth MacFarlane would be the perfect guy to make the boldest Western comedy since Blazing Saddles. After 40 years…
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Cannes Review: Director Ryan Gosling Delivers a Neon Nightmare with ‘Lost River’
Bold Films As an Oscar-nominated A-lister, Ryan Gosling pretty much had carte blanche to make anything he wanted for his first feature, and for all…
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‘The Big Ask’ Review: How Far (In) Would You Let a Friend In Need Go?
Tribeca Films We all handle grief in our own ways. Where one person may seek to drown their sorrows in busy work or the bottle,…