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Movie Reviews by Norman Wilner - Page 20 of 49

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Review of The Lovers and the Despot (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 27 Sep 2016

It's a very safe way to tell a story that cries out for a more daring approach…

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 27 Sep 2016

The top-billed Green is utterly wasted, given nothing to do but deliver exposition and wear ridiculous outfits…

Review of Command and Control (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 20 Sep 2016

As Schlosser and Kenner explain, it's just dumb luck that some distracted technician hasn't accidentally triggered one of these things -- and…

Review of Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 18 Sep 2016

Sadako and Kayako themselves remain as one-dimensional as ever; they're just angry killing machines with no real personality or depth, so the…

Review of The Age of Shadows (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 18 Sep 2016

The first act is logy and the finale goes from protracted to exasperating, but a gripping centrepiece sequence on a train from Shanghai to…

Review of The Journey (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 18 Sep 2016

Both leads are superb, though Stephens is also wonderful in the corners as the equivocating, self-serving Blair…

Review of Certain Women (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 18 Sep 2016

Reichardt is back doing what she does best, creating elaborate portraits of the worlds through which her characters move…

Review of LBJ (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 14 Sep 2016

The film around Harrelson is utterly undistinguished…

Review of I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 14 Sep 2016

All Perkins asks of Wilson is that she move very slowly and deliberately in every scene. I needed a little more than that…

Review of Catfight (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 14 Sep 2016

Even when the story falters, Oh and Heche remain terrifying in their all-consuming fury…

Review of Deepwater Horizon (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 13 Sep 2016

Berg clearly wants to show the human cost of the disaster, but he's also really excited about blowing s--- up on a grand scale…

Review of Into the Inferno (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 13 Sep 2016

[The volcano] footage is magnificent and terrifying, as is the material shot by Maurice and Katia Krafft, who dedicated their lives to filming…

Review of ARQ (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Sep 2016

Elliott builds a convincing near-future world with a minimum of elaborate visual effects…

Review of Salt and Fire (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Sep 2016

The tense opening sequence gives way to a stilted series of quasi-philosophical dialogues between captor and captive that go from self-indulgence…

Review of The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Sep 2016

Short-circuiting any self-seriousness and using food metaphors to explain her theories of art, Dorfman gives The B-Side life and energy…

Review of A United Kingdom (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Sep 2016

The result is an intimate romantic drama that just happens to play out on the world stage…

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 11 Sep 2016

Edward Snowden's slow awakening to the terrifying ramifications of the U.S…

Review of Barry (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 11 Sep 2016

The result is a decent picture, if one that leans pretty heavily on the future resonance of every interaction and conversation…

Review of The Secret Scripture (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 11 Sep 2016

It's the kind of tangled, self-important prestige picture that went out of fashion somewhere in the mid-90s…

Review of Colossal (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 11 Sep 2016

While Hathaway is terrific, and that aforementioned metaphor is smart, [Colossal tangles] up in small-scale business that's harder to believe…

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