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Review of Game Night (2018)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 23 Feb 2018

There's a slapstick sequence made to look like a single take, where bravura filmmaking services hilarity and excitement…

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Review of Annihilation (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 22 Feb 2018

Annihilation is about four-fifths of a tremendous science-fiction movie: it starts well, creates a compelling alternate reality, builds a fascinating…

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Review of Quest (2017)

By Kevin Ritchie (37) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 22 Feb 2018

Quest is one of those great movies that captures the turbulent currents of American life by zooming in on a single household…

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Review of Quest (2017)

By Kevin Ritchie (37) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 22 Feb 2018

Quest is one of those great movies that captures the turbulent currents of American life by zooming in on a single household…

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Review of National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018)

By Glenn Sumi (92) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 22 Feb 2018

It's a long show, but Andrews does great work with the actors to create explosive drama that translates nicely to the screen…

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Review of The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 15 Feb 2018

They might have fared better with a filmmaker who actually works with his actors to shape performance and character, something Eastwood has…

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Review of Before We Vanish (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 15 Feb 2018

Opening with moments of shocking violence but quickly sliding into absurdist whimsy, this is a weird one even for Kiyoshi Kurosawa…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 15 Feb 2018

A beautiful, hallucinatory sequence, as Killmonger reaches peak villain and assumes his powers, is the most dramatically fraught and heart-wrenching…

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Review of The Ritual (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 15 Feb 2018

The law of diminishing returns is stalking the movie, too…

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Review of The Rape of Recy Taylor (2019)

By Kevin Ritchie (37) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 09 Feb 2018

Intimate interviews set the stage for the director to zoom out and connect the family's story to the ways Black women were dehumanized under…

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Review of Fifty Shades Freed (2018)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 09 Feb 2018

More sex means less chatter…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 09 Feb 2018

Black Panther is to the ongoing Marvel project as Coogler's Creed was to the Rocky movies - a film simultaneously beholden to its franchise…

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Review of Permission (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 08 Feb 2018

Permission offers a novel spin on its romantic-comedy premise, exploring the idea that people can do stupid things with the best intentions…

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Review of Spettacolo (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 08 Feb 2018

Spettacolo may not have the structural ingenuity of the filmmakers' previous work, but as a contemplation of identity and the value and comfort…

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Review of Peter Rabbit (2018)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 08 Feb 2018

Balances the ramped-up pacing, postmodern winks and slapstick comedy you'd expect in current kids movies with the charm, affection and warmth…

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Review of The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 07 Feb 2018

Here, we're trapped with experts shouting technobabble at each other for much of the action...and it's just not as compelling…

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Review of Winchester (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 07 Feb 2018

Conceived without a thought to pacing or tension, and shot on location in what is very clearly the Australian countryside, it's an empty, seemingly…

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Review of Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 25 Jan 2018

There's a fascinating thesis tucked into Midnight Return: The Story Of Billy Hayes And Turkey, and it's only partially about the idea contained…

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Review of Hollow in the Land (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 25 Jan 2018

You have to be a really talented storyteller to pull this off, and Hollow In The Land suggests that Corkle has a ways to go on that account…

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Review of Den of Thieves (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 18 Jan 2018

Although it wants to be a modern-day reworking of the Michael Mann crime classic, this picture fizzles out…

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