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Review of Knight of Cups (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 16 Mar 2016

Malick captures fleeting moments and ethereal visions and lets them swirl alongside the remnants of a shredded script like confetti in a vacuum…

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Review of Hip Hop-eration (2014)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 10 Mar 2016

The novelty of older white folks bouncing to hip-hop is not lost on some of the younger dancers in the film, who point out that this demographic…

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Review of The Little Prince (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 10 Mar 2016

Saint-Exupéry's darker tones and intense emotions are all here, echoing the Little Girl's own self-discovery in a dual narrative that dares…

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Review of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Mar 2016

The half-jokey, half-serious dynamic that works so well in The Big Short - where laughs get caught in your throat - fails to find its groove here…

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Review of Gods of Egypt (2016)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 25 Feb 2016

Yes, they are mostly white, though Black Panther himself Chadwick Boseman shows up as Thoth, the god of wisdom, a character who tips this movie's…

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Review of Snowtime! (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Feb 2016

There's a lightweight charm to this tale of grade-schoolers in a small, still mountainside town who engage in a deliriously epic snowball war…

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Review of Star Men (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Feb 2016

Explanations about black holes and spectral light are neat, but these guys really get deep on their relationship to life, death and each other…

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Review of Zoolander 2 (2016)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Feb 2016

Anna Wintour and Valentino join in on the very obvious gags about their industry, acknowledging that Ben Stiller's preening and witless runway…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Black (2016)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 29 Jan 2016

If there were ever a purpose to these crass, imbecilic parodies, it's to remind us that the closest black actors come to starring in something…

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Review of Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 27 Jan 2016

If Kung Fu Panda 3 feels like a step down, it's only because it's got a sterling pedigree to live up to…

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Review of The 5th Wave (2016)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 22 Jan 2016

Like the abandoned, bullet-riddled vehicles glimpsed onscreen, this movie is a pile-up of beat-up motifs that clog the story and leave no room…

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Review of Ride Along 2 (2016)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 15 Jan 2016

Hart and Cube's pairing should be comic gold, a chance to be daring and topical…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 06 Jan 2016

The heavenly visuals, which would look lovely mounted over a fireplace, ultimately serve filmmaking ego more than the grim, early 19th-century…

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Review of Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 06 Jan 2016

It's frustrating to spend six hours with a film and still feel like you're missing something…

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Review of The Hateful Eight (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for AskMen.com (164) on 06 Jan 2016

Playing a gun-control parlor game for 90 minutes without letting a single bullet loose is an intense and bravura direction to take for a Western,…

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Review of Noma: My Perfect Storm (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 16 Dec 2015

Most scenes feel stagey, with Redzepi feigning intimacy but sounding like he's auditioning to be the next Gordon Ramsay…

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Review of Joy (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for AskMen.com (164) on 16 Dec 2015

The comic tale is trademark Russell…

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Review of Concussion (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for AskMen.com (164) on 16 Dec 2015

Concussion plays Omalu's compelling work as your by-the-numbers lone crusader story, which is effective right up to the point when a bristling…

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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for AskMen.com (164) on 16 Dec 2015

The nostalgic callbacks are so insistent that they can stop the narrative dead, like when some real drama is about to go down but everything…

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Review of Joy (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for AskMen.com (164) on 16 Dec 2015

The comic tale is trademark Russell…

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