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Review of Tampopo (1985)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 06 Jan 2017

Tampopo is one of the great food films, its dizzy deliciousness pre-dating our addiction to the Food Network, celebrity chefs and exquisite plating…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 30 Dec 2016

It's a slight, often affecting story that mixes the confusion of contemporary life with nostalgic yearning for a time when the whole boy-meets-girl…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 09 Dec 2016

The story is about how we get past trauma and how sometimes we don't but keep going all the same…

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Review of Ants on a Shrimp (2017)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 02 Dec 2016

Ants on a Shrimp is an intense film and, for a food flick, it's much more about the hard labour of cooking than the pure pleasure of dining…

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Review of Loving (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 30 Nov 2016

Combining a scrupulously intelligent script with standout lead performances, Loving is stubbornly modest and profoundly moving…

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Review of Notfilm (2015)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 18 Nov 2016

Lipman blends his detailed historical account of Film's production with good gossip and gently wandering reflections on the big questions…

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Review of Trolls (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 04 Nov 2016

The message, though simplistic, is still worth hearing: you can't consume happiness; you need to find it within yourself…

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Review of Queen of Katwe (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 06 Oct 2016

This crowd-pleaser is bolstered by intelligent scripting, crafted direction and strong performances, making the uplift feel earned…

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Review of The Dressmaker (2015)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 06 Oct 2016

While Moorhouse pulls off some quirky comic sequences, she can't quite corral the story's expanding slate of characters and tearaway themes…

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Review of Storks (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 22 Sep 2016

Junior and Tulip are a likable and funny duo with great comic chemistry, and like all contemporary cartoons, Storks ends with a nice lesson…

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Review of Sully (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 15 Sep 2016

This modest, moving and unshowy ode to professionalism gets the job done…

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Review of Robinson Crusoe (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 08 Sep 2016

Taken all in all, The Wild Life is a harmless but instantly forgettable children's movie…

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Review of Hell or High Water (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 25 Aug 2016

The movie plays with clichés only to upend them…

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Review of War Dogs (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 25 Aug 2016

The results are frantic rather than dynamic, with nothing much to say under all the hepped-up style…

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Review of Indignation (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 11 Aug 2016

Mature, meticulous and faithful in its own fashion, this is the best of the Roth adaptations that have come out in the last 15 years…

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Review of Bad Moms (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 28 Jul 2016

We really do need a bad mom comedy in 2016, but Bad Moms isn't it…

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Review of Café Society (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 28 Jul 2016

The film manages a slight melancholy tug, and Woody's recent tendency to stop suddenly actually works here, underlining the characters' impossible…

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Review of Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 14 Jul 2016

Director Susanna White, a veteran of British prestige TV, offers handsome location work in Paris, London and the Swiss Alps, but the screenplay,…

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Review of Genius (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 23 Jun 2016

Too often literal rather than literary, stagey rather than cinematic, Genius can't live up to its title, and ultimately its good intentions…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 09 Jun 2016

Lady Susan may be a bad person, but with Austen at her sharpest, Stillman at his snappiest and Beckinsale right on form, she is very good company…

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