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Jay Stone and Katherine Monk. Definitive reviews. Trusted critics.

3.5Score

Sigourney Weaver Salinger Year movie review

My Salinger Year serves up character on a silver platter, with a side of quirk

Movie review: My Salinger Year Joanna Rakoff's memoir takes its small gestures to the big screen in Philippe Falardeau's adaptation that finds a soft spot for a world before word processors, emails and the amputated personal communiques called 'texts.'

March 5, 2021

3Score

Raya and the Last Dragon production still

Raya and the Last Dragon seeks peace, but gets lost in labyrinth of war

Movie Review: Raya and the last Dragon The new Disney blockbuster pushes female characters to the forefront, but ambient violence and distrust betrays a sensitivity to the fair sex with slings, arrows and spears.

March 2, 2021

3.5,3, 5,5 Score

The Croods enter a New Age but Chronicling Christmas never gets old

What’s On November 27 A modern stone age family returns, Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn re-gift, a sports journalist pummels political corruption, and Alex Winter offers a little green rosetta stone for Frank Zappa

November 29, 2020

4, 3.5, 3Score

The Way I See It Pete Souza photographer White House

The Way I See It, Greta, and the toil of the Trial of the Chicago 7

What’s On October 16, 2020 The Way I See It is a must-see view at the White House through the lens of official photographer Pete Souza, I Am Greta goes on an epic journey to save the world, and Aaron Sorkin's Trial of the Chicago 7 fails to find a West Wing moment.

October 16, 2020

3, 3, 3.5Score

Antebellum, The Devil All the Time and Jessica Chastain goes super Ava

What’s On: September 18, 2020 Janelle Monae wakes up in unwoke South, Tom Holland practices his drawl in the holler and Jessica Chastain gets shaken and stirred as a super-assassin in Ava.

September 18, 2020

3.5Score

Movie review: Mulan redeems Disney’s lust for remakes

Movie Review: Mulan Whale Rider director Niki Caro finds new dimensions in an ancient tale by focusing on the coming-of-age story struggling for articulation under the heavy, old armour of a man's world.

September 4, 2020

3Score

Tenet Movie Review: It All Depends On How You Look at It

Movie Review: Tenet Christopher Nolan looks to recapture a memento of his past in palindromic Tenet, a movie that wrestles with itself in the moment but finds meaning when you read it backward.

August 29, 2020

3Score

What’s On August 7: Work It, Black is King, Knock Down the House and more

Movie Reviews: New releases August 7, 2020 Work It sweats bricks, Black is King crowns Queen Bey, Audrie and Daisy asks hard questions and gets ugly answers, Stand Up Guys falls down and Stay lingers.

August 7, 2020

3.5Score

Ash pulls us into the personal crucible of obsessive-compulsive disorder

Movie review: Ash Set against the backdrop of the scorched British Columbia landscape during fire season, director Andrew Huculiak pulls off the near-impossible by delivering a sympathetic portrait of Interior spaces singed by fear and loathing.

July 31, 2020

3.5Score

First Stripes revises bootcamp cliché with a Canadian accent

Movie Review: First Stripes Jean-François Caissy’s fly-on-the-wall documentary isn't about glorifying the military with a starry-eyed salute to symbols. It's about celebrating the humans who sacrifice a part of themselves for the national ideal, but more importantly, for each other.

April 6, 2020