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Review of American Animals (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 21 Jun 2018

American Animals plays out as a hall-of-mirrors examination of responsibility and memory, both of which are aggravated by the heedlessness…

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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 21 Jun 2018

The real stars are the dinosaurs and Fallen Kingdom gives us plenty of them…

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Review of Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 21 Jun 2018

Not much happens, but it's awfully sweet…

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Review of Paper Year (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 20 Jun 2018

Hewson and Jogia are both very good at finding the small moments that make Franny and Dan individuals rather than templates, and Hamish Linklater…

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Review of Incredibles 2 (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 13 Jun 2018

It satisfies on the most basic level - but you'll be left wondering why it didn't go any further…

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Review of Tag (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 13 Jun 2018

The whole thing is frantic and shrieky and often very funny - thanks mostly to Hamm's indignant deadpan and Buress's distinctive line readings…

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Review of Becoming Who I Was (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 13 Jun 2018

It's worth sitting through the film's meandering first hour - to get to the genuinely powerful final movement…

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Review of Beast (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 13 Jun 2018

It's not a bad movie, but it's precisely the sort of middling genre exercise with which we are culturally oversaturated at the moment…

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Review of SuperFly (2018)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 11 Jun 2018

The new SuperFly makes obvious drive-by observations about racism today, somewhere between its Scarface drama and Fast And Furious resolutions…

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Review of Ocean's Eight (2018)

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

Maybe they can talk Soderbergh into coming back for Ocean's Nine. Or maybe, I dunno, they could get a woman to direct it. That'd be worth a shot…

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Review of Hereditary (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 06 Jun 2018

From scene to scene it's quite compelling, and Collette is brilliant as a brittle artist with obvious control issues…

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Review of Hotel Artemis (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 05 Jun 2018

A hallway standoff late in the picture is one of the most satisfying things I've seen this year...Like the best pulp treasures, Hotel Artemis…

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Review of Black Kite (2017)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 30 May 2018

We're always aware of what Black Kite is striving to be - and it's frustrating to realize it's not going to get there…

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Review of First Reformed (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 30 May 2018

In its consideration of the commercialization of evangelical Christianity for an audience that has no time for the teachings of Christ, First…

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Review of Adrift (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 30 May 2018

Either the movie will work for you or it won't, and it worked for me. Or, more specifically, the actors made it work…

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Review of The Gospel According to André (2018)

By Kevin Ritchie (37) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 24 May 2018

The Gospel According To André is a straightforward doc biopic full of flashy interview subjects, but it's anchored by great access to a subject…

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Review of Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco (2018)

By Kevin Ritchie (37) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 23 May 2018

Bill Cunningham steals all his scenes in this documentary celebrating fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez - and that's no small feat in a film…

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Review of Kayak to Klemtu (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 23 May 2018

It moves along well enough, and younger viewers should respond to Ella's arc, but grown-ups will quickly realize the movie they're watching…

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Review of The Tale (2018)

By Kevin Ritchie (37) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 23 May 2018

Dern, not surprisingly, rises to the occasion as a woman questioning everything she knows. The power in her performance is in moments of quiet flux…

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Review of Birthmarked (2018)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 23 May 2018

Hoss-Desmarais and screenwriter Marc Tulin take a premise worthy of Wes Anderson (or Robert Altman, or Paul Thomas Anderson, or Mike Leigh)…

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