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Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By Brad Wheeler (426) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 16 Feb 2017

A stunningly unnecessary comedy, Fist Fight perpetuates unoriginal characters, a preposterous premise and a half-hearted stand-up-for-yourself…

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Review of Dancer (2016)

By Martha Schabas (4) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 Feb 2017

While there’s plenty of footage of Polunin executing multiple pirouettes and twisting acrobatically through the air, real ballet fans will…

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Review of Dancer (2016)

By Martha Schabas (4) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 Feb 2017

While there’s plenty of footage of Polunin executing multiple pirouettes and twisting acrobatically through the air, real ballet fans will…

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Review of The Cove (2009)

By Michael Posner (18) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 06 Feb 2017

Hopefully, after seeing this film, interest in places like Sea World will begin to decline…

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Review of Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)

By Stephen Cole (251) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 03 Feb 2017

An amused and affectionate look at the writer who formed a crucial link between the New Journalism of the 1960s and today's blogosphere…

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Review of Mulan (1998)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 02 Feb 2017

Mulan is another competent effort, but it's a disappointment for anyone hoping the studio would raise the standard of the animated feature…

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Review of The Salesman (2016)

By Kate Taylor (347) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 02 Feb 2017

With The Salesman, Farhadi opens a window into his own society that offers a universal view of the emotional rivalries within the human heart…

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Review of The Space Between Us (2017)

By Brad Wheeler (426) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 02 Feb 2017

A shameless pastiche of Starman’s alien-on-Earth sci-fi, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble’s medical pathos and any number of young-lovers-on-the-run…

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Review of Buried (2010)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 31 Jan 2017

Unfortunately, as the phone battery wears down, the plot's theatrics heat up to pot-boiling degrees of incredulity – a senile mother, a vicious…

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Review of Feast of Love (2007)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 30 Jan 2017

The movie begins to feel more like a buffet of contrivance than a feast of love…

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Review of Fish Tank (2009)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 28 Jan 2017

A half-century ago, kitchen sink realism began its harsh existence on the British stage and then migrated to the screen where, over the years,…

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Review of Proof (2005)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 27 Jan 2017

The result, like so many stout travellers from stage to screen, is respectable. Stolidly, bloodlessly, yawningly respectable…

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Review of Donnie Brasco (1997)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 27 Jan 2017

What better casting than Al Pacino, whose own career, of course, has reflected all the seasonal changes in the gangster saga…

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Review of Robin Hood (2010)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 26 Jan 2017

Damned if those dual spoilsports, the gladiatorial director Ridley Scott reteamed with his portly star Russell Crowe, haven't drained every…

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Review of Gold (2017)

By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 26 Jan 2017

Unfortunately, not even all of McConaughey’s substantial powers can overcome director Stephen Gaghan’s lacklustre vision or the screenwriters’…

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Review of The Illusionist (2006)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 23 Jan 2017

For a film meant to float on a gossamer veil of mystery, The Illusionist falls -- make that flops -- with quite the heavy thud…

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Review of Split (2017)

By Brad Wheeler (426) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 19 Jan 2017

The problem with Shyamalan’s spin on dissociative identity disorder is that for all the dissociation, why are all 23 identities cool with…

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Review of Paradise Now (2005)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Jan 2017

As a thriller, it's only fitfully suspenseful, and despite the ticking bomb premise, meanders a good deal in its plot convolutions…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By Kate Taylor (347) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Jan 2017

With this complex characterization, Bening looks like a shoo-in for a best-actress nomination come Oscar time, but she is also amply supported…

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Review of Live by Night (2016)

By Kate Taylor (347) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Jan 2017

Centred on an uxorious guy who is building a gambling palace, Live by Night invites unfortunate comparisons with Martin Scorsese’s 1995 classic…

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