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Toronto Review: ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ is unremarkable despite strong performances by Patel and Swinton

Mina Takla September 6, 2019

Armando Iannucci’s period piece is a charming yet incoherent film that hold commercial potential but lacks artistic risks In a departure from his more satirical... Read More

Toronto Review: the inventive and touching ‘La Llorona’

Mina Takla September 5, 2019

Jayro Bustamante’s atmospheric film is a unique, inventive look at dictatorship and racism in war-torn Guatemala In his much anticipated follow up to Tremblores and... Read More

Toronto Review: ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ is a stunning and sophisticated debut

Mina Takla September 5, 2019

Amjad Abu Alala creates one of the best, if not the best, Middle Eastern film of the year with a daring, poetic and reflective film... Read More

Review: ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ is a compassionate exploration of the human spirit

Catherine Springer September 2, 2019

If I were to critique this movie in a vacuum, as if it were a film school assignment where I were to judge it solely... Read More

Review: ‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ hits the perfect note

Catherine Springer September 2, 2019

It feels like it doesn’t take much anymore to become famous. Andy Warhol would have either been intrigued or horrified by YouTube if he were... Read More

Telluride Review: ‘Judy’ is Renée Zellweger in peak form

Erik Anderson August 31, 2019

In Judy, Renée Zellweger is at the top of her game playing a Hollywood legend at the bottom of hers Biopics of legendary figures almost... Read More

Review: ‘Vita & Virginia’

Catherine Springer August 22, 2019

Writers love to write about writers. It certainly helps that there has been no shortage of tragic literary figures in the annals of history to... Read More

Review: Mads Brügger’s ‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ is a compelling whodunit

Catherine Springer August 14, 2019

I love a good conspiracy theory. Don’t get me wrong, though: not all conspiracy theories are fun. Some are silly, some are crazy, and some,... Read More

Review: ‘This Is Not Berlin’

Catherine Springer August 5, 2019

I’m starting to feel about coming-of-age movies the same way I feel about superhero movies: at this point, it’s got to be really special for... Read More

Review: ‘The Lion King’

Erik Anderson July 11, 2019

Between 1939, with their film animated feature Snow White, up to the early 1960s, The Walt Disney Company was the dominated studio for animated film.... Read More