Out in Theaters: ‘BLACK MASS’
Featuring what is unarguably Johnny Depp’s best performance in years, Black Mass suffers under the weight of its own ambition. Too sprawling and rushed to ever settle into the moment,…
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Out in Theaters: ‘EVEREST’
Marrying top-notch technical alchemy with excellent performances across the board and a narrative that’s universally powerful, 'Everest' is a big picture triumph - the tentpole spectacle film that 2015 needed.…
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TIFF ’15 Review: ‘WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED’
Women He’s Undressed, Gillian Armstrong’s new documentary about Hollywood costume designer Orry Kelly, opens over an unnaturally-saturated view of a blue sky, with a quote from actress Fanny Brice: “Let the world know who you are because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose; then where will you be?” The...
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TIFF ’15 Review: ‘MAGALLANES’
Primary Peruvian exports include non-monetary gold powder, cooper ores, concentrates, cathodes and non-crude oil. You can now add to the list supremely compelling cinema as Magallanes, the product of first-time Peruvian director Salvador del Solar, is a true festival stunner. Soaked in a gleeful amount of real world suspense and intensified by rich dramatic character...
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TIFF ’15 Review: ‘DER NACHTMAHR’ (The Nightmare)
If you wiggle a pencil fast enough, it appears soft. Rubbery. Made of flesh. It’s only when you reach out and touch the pencil that you realize it’s made of hard wood. In a film, we cannot reach out, we cannot exert force or physical contact, so we rely on cues that the filmmaker plants...
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Out in Theaters: ‘SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE’
Natural chemistry between Brie and Sudeikis makes their jabs and mounting affection land all the more. As the third act runs, Headland proves a storytelling tease; her will-they-or-won't-they battleground threatens…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE BEAUTY INSIDE’
Baek Jong-yeol succeeds in blending aspects of realism and fantasy but the film’s largely conservative execution doesn’t bode well with the story’s progressive undertones; thus 'The Beauty Inside' ends up…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE VISIT’
The Visit takes a trip to the grandparents that’s positively loaded with laughs and an overwhelming willingness to be weird. Turns out that the twist was that Shyamalan’s career wasn’t…
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Out in Theaters: ‘BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS’
If you’re looking for a vaguely enjoyable, thoroughly blood-drenched re-hash of Shaun of the Dead, Bloodsucking Bastards will fit the bill - but is anyone really searching for that?
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Out in Theaters: A WALK IN THE WOODS
Unabashedly sentimental and overtly geared towards the elderly folks in the audience, the overly tender Kwapis filters his comic sensibility through an aggressively broad strainer. The outcome is the equivalent…