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Review of Cas & Dylan (2013)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 02 Apr 2014

Screenwriter Jessie Gabe has a few surprises up her sleeve, particularly at the end…

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Review of Bethlehem (2013)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 02 Apr 2014

Bethlehem negotiates a tangle of loyalties that's as complex as the Middle East itself…

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Review of Bad Words (2013)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 28 Mar 2014

It wants to be politically incorrect, and indeed there are many rants against women, insults to visible minorities, and general verbal mayhem…

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Review of The Returned (2013)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 28 Mar 2014

Director Manuel Carballo seems to be trying for the psychological unease of Blindness, or perhaps of something by Cronenberg, but it's never…

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Review of Noah (2014)

By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 27 Mar 2014

If only he'd been able to pull it all together as something other than an awkward, rectangular box, Noah might have had some real style and…

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Review of Noah (2015)

By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 27 Mar 2014

If only he'd been able to pull it all together as something other than an awkward, rectangular box, Noah might have had some real style and…

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Review of Three Days in Havana (2014)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 27 Mar 2014

At a brief 82 minutes (including a long credit sequence), it doesn't have time to fill in any of the plot gaps: it plays like a pitch, rather…

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Review of Noah (2013)

By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 27 Mar 2014

If only he'd been able to pull it all together as something other than an awkward, rectangular box, Noah might have had some real style and…

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Review of Le Week-End (2013)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 20 Mar 2014

Director Roger Michell and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi -- who have worked together four times, most recently on Venus -- have a keen sense…

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Review of Divergent (2014)

By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 20 Mar 2014

With Woodley as our outsider touchstone, this action movie from Neil Burger has all the palpable humanity it needed to be a futuristic Mean…

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Review of The Lunchbox (2013)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 20 Mar 2014

It's a slight film, but director Ritesh Batra, making his first feature, encompasses the film's gentle performances into the chaos of Mumbai…

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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 20 Mar 2014

Ty Burrell turns out to be the secret ingredient that makes this movie as much fun as it is, even if it borders on Peter Sellers redux, because…

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Review of Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 18 Mar 2014

Martha is a cipher in the mounting drama, but Olsen manages to give her real life with a sort of reverse charisma, curling her physical beauty…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 13 Mar 2014

It's clever, and thanks to Fiennes and the inspired production design, it's a whole lot of fun. But it's also flat -- apparently by design…

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Review of Down River (2013)

By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 13 Mar 2014

At the heart of this emotional success is Shaver, who takes Ratner's solid script and eats it whole…

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Review of Stay (2013)

By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 13 Mar 2014

Neither one of these characters elicits much sympathy from the audience from the very get-go, and this presents von Carolsfeld with a challenge…

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Review of In Fear (2013)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 13 Mar 2014

The actors didn't know exactly where the script was going, but their improvised dialogue moves authentically from teasing to discomfort to…

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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 13 Mar 2014

The stunts in Need for Speed are real: No computer pixels were harmed in the making of this film. It's the people who are fake…

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Review of A Field in England (2013)

By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 13 Mar 2014

And now for something completely different: a black comedy set in 17th-century England at the time of the Civil War and given a lift with some…

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Review of The Husband (2014)

By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 13 Mar 2014

McCabe-Lokos wrote the script for this stripped-down piece of psychological suspense that gets to the bony heart of love…

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