Toronto Review: ‘Boy Erased’ (★★★½)
Joel Edgerton has crafted a compassionate family drama with extraordinary performances from Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe In Boy Erased, based on Garrard... Read More
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Toronto Review: ‘Green Book’ (★★)
Peter Farrelly’s race relations road movie may be safe and conventional but winning performances from Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali make it a crowdpleaser “Inspired... Read More
Toronto Review: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ (★★★★)
Barry Jenkins follows up his Oscar-winning Moonlight with another masterpiece; a lush, visual love story and the first ever film adaptation of James Baldwin’s work It... Read More
Toronto Review: ‘Beautiful Boy’ (★★★)
Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet both give Oscar-worthy performances as a father and son dealing with the son’s drug addiction in this affecting true story Stories... Read More
Toronto Review: Nicole Kidman in ‘Destroyer’ (★★★½)
In Karyn Kusama’s gritty and grimy crime thriller Destroyer, Nicole Kidman plays Erin Bell, a grizzled LA detective only James Ellroy could love and gives... Read More
Toronto Review: ‘Widows’ (★★★½)
Steve McQueen’s twisty thriller finds room for a heist, family drama, racial politics and violence, and gender issues all led by a powerhouse performance from Viola... Read More
Toronto Review: ‘Consequences’
Looking back at childhood from the safe distance of adulthood, many of us find ourselves surprised to realize that our parents essentially had no idea... Read More
Toronto Review: ‘Capernaum’
There is a moment in Nadine Labaki’s CAPERNAUM which perfectly encapsulates the profound conundrum it presents. Her face crumpled with premature age and agony, Saoud (Kawthar Al Haddad),... Read More
Toronto Review: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in ‘A Star Is Born’ (★★★★)
The opening of A Star Is Born gives us Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine, a country-fried rock star who can pack booze and pills as... Read More
Review: Glenn Close is Oscar-worthy in ‘The Wife’
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] No one can do a cold stare like Glenn Close. Throughout her new film, The Wife, Close, in a career-defining and... Read More
2024 North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) Nominations 
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