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Review of The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 01 Aug 2018

McKinnon's weirdly lovable goofball charms, with Kunis doing fine work as a comic foil, elevate a movie that is otherwise dragged down by an…

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Review of Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 31 Jul 2018

There are few things more compelling than watching an artist trying to coax something out of himself and into the world before he leaves it…

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Review of Our House (2018)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 25 Jul 2018

With a brief runtime and a script that doesn't dig deep enough, both the drama and the scares are underserved…

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Review of Blindspotting (2018)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 24 Jul 2018

Gentrification, police brutality and the prison industrial complex are just some of the many, many talking points Blindspotting grapples with…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 24 Jul 2018

While set pieces are executed brilliantly...and photographed with striking clarity and invention by cinematographer Rob Hardy, the movie still…

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Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 16 Jul 2018

It's a modest, intimate movie that contains a whole world - and one I could recognize and understand even though I grew up in an entirely different…

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Review of Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 16 Jul 2018

By the end of this gentle, odd little picture, we understand where the man's art came from - and we admire him for being able to find it…

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Review of Skyscraper (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 11 Jul 2018

Thurber is content to just go through the action-movie motions when he could - and should - be going for broke. And that's no fun for anyone…

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Review of Whitney (2018)

By Chris Rattan (3) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 10 Jul 2018

Macdonald's doc doesn't have this depth, but it does contain a major reveal, which by now has been reported widely…

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Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 10 Jul 2018

Riley's film is the eccentric outlier in the new Black cinema: a frenetic comedy with furious rage bubbling just underneath its surface…

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Review of Three Identical Strangers (2018)

By José Teodoro (48) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 10 Jul 2018

Wardle's approach suffers from the documentarian's anxiety over holding a mainstream audience's attention...But I credit him with bringing…

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Review of Filmworker (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 10 Jul 2018

Cinephiles seeking insight into Kubrick's personality and process will find plenty of it here, as Vitali spins stories of Stanley's mercurial…

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Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jul 2018

Leave No Trace forms a beautiful, heartfelt testament…

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Review of Boundaries (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jul 2018

Boundaries is a road comedy for people who enjoy seeing that nice Christopher Plummer play a bit of a rascal but would prefer not to encounter…

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Review of Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 27 Jun 2018

Marlina The Murderer keeps its focus tight and its storytelling sharp…

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Review of Uncle Drew (2018)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 27 Jun 2018

The movie has big personalities yet comes up short on laughs. But buried within is a sad sigh over the gentrification of street ball…

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Review of Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)

By Chris Rattan (3) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 27 Jun 2018

In its rescrambling and redefining of what can take place on a comedy stage, it's a beast that other sets are going to have to contend with this year…

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Review of Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 26 Jun 2018

Operates less as a sequel and more as an audience-friendly corrective with franchise potential (Let's remake Sicario - but more fun!)…

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Review of Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018)

By Kevin Ritchie (37) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 26 Jun 2018

Among the film's most fascinating scenes are experts talking through the historical importance of her signature pieces, which is a shame given…

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Review of The Unseen (2016)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 26 Jun 2018

The Unseen isn't really a horror movie at all. It's something else, and I really appreciated that…

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