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Teenage Love Affair
The new romantic comedy “Love, Simon” is all about symmetry. This is a well-ordered world where everyone exists in a state that is not perfect, but rarely uncertain.
The new romantic comedy “Love, Simon” is all about symmetry. This is a well-ordered world where everyone exists in a state that is not perfect, but rarely uncertain.
Anyone looking for something diverting to see over the weekend should head to Amazon or iTunes to stream the new digital release “The Death of Stalin.”
“Game Night” is the best example of counterprogramming in the cinema right now and it looks likely to be that way until probably May, assuming it remains in theatres.
Critiquing the critics is my least favourite thing about criticism, but here we are.
With the Oscars all handed out, it’s just about time to bid 2017 film year adieu.
How does one even begin to talk about “Black Panther”? The question has been turning over in my head since I saw the movie in a packed theatre last week.
“The Shape of Water” features a beautiful original score but the most significant musical motif of the film is found in the past.
Although we’re well into the second month of 2018, the film world at large is still experiencing arrested development.
As much as Michael Anthony’s “Green Days by the River” has turned into a symbolic text of colonial life in Trinidad and Tobago, the story will always depend more on its value as a coming-of-age tale more than anything else.
Steven Spielberg’s recently released film “The Post” is a very particular kind of “culturally relevant message film.”
There is a key scene in “Darkest Hour” that will either make or break the film for viewers.
There’s something paradoxical about a 21st century film musical and even more so about “The Greatest Showman,” which is not the best or worst representation of what musicals are in 2017.
“All the Money in the World,” the recent Ridley Scott drama, is perhaps the darkest film I’ve seen from 2017.
I went into “Molly’s Game” knowing much nothing about it beyond the fact that it was written by directed by Aaron Sorkin, in his directorial debut, and that it starred Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba.
“Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” bills itself as a standalone sequel, a descriptor that seems immediately counterintuitive though it is immediately intrinsic to 21st century blockbusters.
“Patti Cake$,” a 2017 film about an overweight white woman’s quest to become a rap star in the slums of New Jersey has garnered immediate comparisons to “Hustle & Flow” and “8 Mile”.
Last week’s column on “A Ghost Story” had me thinking about representations of loneliness on screen.
Who invented the bedsheet ghost? The image of a ghost marked by donning a white sheet with holes for eyes is a classic and familiar concept.
“Mudbound” is a film that will be sold on its relevance.
“Beach Rats,” the winner of the best director award at this year’s Sundance film festival, is a filmic bildungsroman.
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