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Our critics pick the best movies and TV shows to watch right now in theatres and on streaming services in Canada.

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Bradley Cooper’s audacious new biopic Maestro is one of 2023′s best
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I see nepo-baby people: Ishana Night Shyamalan’s weak thriller The Watchers hides a family-tree twist
DAKOTA FANNING as Mina in New Line Cinema’s and Warner Bros. Pictures’ fantasy thriller “THE WATCHERS,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
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Dark Canadian comedy I Used to Be Funny delivers the gutsiest of punch lines
Rachel Sennott photocred Janick Laurent_ BTS-Brooke&Sam-2510210069 director Ally Pankiw film still I used to be Funny
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Inert Richard Gere drama Longing might be the worst thing to happen to Southern Ontario in ages
Richard Gere in LONGING by Savi Gabizon, courtesy of Mongrel Media
Sunburnt Unicorn’s coming-of-age tale depicts the inner landscape of adolescence
Sunburnt Unicorn animated feature.
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Robot Dreams will crush your puny human heart
5. Robot Dreams © 2023 Arcadia Motion Pictures, Lokiz Films, Noodles Production, Les Films du Worso review of animated French film Robot Dreams (Elevation)
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How the CRTC ruined Netflix and Disney’s summer vacations, but hopefully not yours
Barry Hertz
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Five things to watch this weekend: Star Wars forces a new Disney+ series on its acolytes, and whatcha gonna do when the Bad Boys come for you?
Barry Hertz
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die offers action-movie fans two choices, neither appealing
This image released by Sony Pictures shows Will Smith, left, and Martin Lawrence in "Bad Boys: Ride or Die." (Frank Masi/Columbia Pictures-Sony via AP)
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The 2024 Canadian Screen Awards rebounded from last year’s disaster – once you could actually hear the show
Barry Hertz
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Five things to watch this weekend: MoviePass gets the HBO treatment, and Disney+ goes all in on Jim Henson
Barry Hertz
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Michael Caine’s final film The Great Escaper is slight but sweet
The Great Escaper! Michael Caine Movie Film Still
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The 10 best films at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Jordan Ruimy
Brian Epstein, the Midas Man of The Beatles, gets the biopic treatment at Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Production Still, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Brian Epstein in Midas Man. Credit: James Loxley
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Diabolical Canadian slasher film In a Violent Nature has art on its mind and blood on its hands
RV-FF-VIOLENT-REVIEW-0529 In a Violent Nature 2024 Director Chris Nash Writer Chris Nash Stars Ry Barrett Andrea Pavlovic Cameron Love
How the Black Academy’s new head aims to prioritize diversity in front of and behind the screen
Gail Case ED of The Black Academy 2 Photos courtesy of The Black Academy. Marvin Morgan
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Queer Canadian cheerleading drama Backspot will have you doing flips
BACKSPOT, please credit D.W. Waterson Film Movie Still
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Robert De Niro and Bobby Cannavale prove father doesn’t know best in weak family dramedy Ezra
A touching portrait of family and friendship, EZRA follows Max Bernal (Bobby Cannavale), a stand-up comedian living with his father (Robert De Niro), while struggling to co-parent his autistic son Ezra (introducing William Fitzgerald)
opinion
Cannes Diary, Part Two: The festival acknowledges a new generation of filmmakers
Mark Peranson
Creating hope: Kyiv-based feature movie studio produces new films despite regular shelling
Victoria Yarmoshchuk, chief executive of the Ukrainian movie studio Film.ua, Kyiv, Ukraine, April, 11, 2024.
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Don’t worry baby, the Disney+ Beach Boys documentary has fun, fun, fun
CALIFORNIA - CIRCA 1964: Rock and roll band "The Beach Boys" perform onstage in circa 1964 in California. (L-R) Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Brian Wilson, Mike Love. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) WHEELER review of new doc The Beach Boys (Disney+); EMBARGOED until May 24 at 6 am EST
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New comedy Babes isn’t quite the Bridesmaids of baby-making its filmmakers might think it is
BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in different phases of adulthood. DSCF1671.RAF
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What to watch this weekend: Special Canadian Screen Awards 2024 edition
Barry Hertz
Can the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards save a film and television industry in crisis mode?
Barry Hertz, the Globe and Mail's film editor, is photographed in the Globe studio on Sept 10 2015. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
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Fiery and thoughtful, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will shake your bones and steal your soul
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures CAPTION: Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure “FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. COPYRIGHT: © 2024 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA film movie still
Hot Docs to close Ted Rogers Cinema for three months to ‘recalibrate’ organization
The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema at 506 Bloor St. West in Toronto, is photographed on April 22, 2024. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
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Hilarious and sexy romcom Hit Man deserves to make Glen Powell the No. 1 movie star, with a bullet
Hit Man. (L to R) Glen Powell as Gary Johnson and Adria Arjona as Madison Master. Cr. Brian Roedel / Courtesy of Netflix
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The Garfield Movie is a fistful of rotten lasagna
Vic and Garfield in GARFIELD the movie Film still
David Cronenberg lets death become him with fiercely alive thriller The Shrouds
(From L) French actor Vincent Cassel, Canadian director David Cronenberg and German actress Diane Kruger arrive for the screening of the film "The Shrouds" at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 20, 2024. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)
Cannes Diary: To watch the competition films means to be subjected to the worst humanity has to offer
British director Andrea Arnold arrives for a press conference for the film "Bird" during the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 17, 2024. (Photo by Zoulerah NORDDINE / AFP) (Photo by ZOULERAH NORDDINE/AFP via Getty Images)
Inside the digital resurrection of Winter Kept Us Warm, the seminal Canadian film that history forgot
Film still Winter Kept Us Warm Photo credit is: Canadian International Pictures.
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The Strangers: Chapter 1 is just a horror-prequel friend you haven’t met
The Strangers Chapter 1 - Photo 2.jpg. rv-ff-strangers-review-0516)
Toronto International Film Festival to launch ‘game-changing’ official marketplace in 2026
Cameron Bailey (L) CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is photographed at the TIFF Lightbox ON MAY 6, 2024. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
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Five things to watch this weekend: Netflix’s Girls5Eva is the 30 Rock sequel you need, plus X-Men ‘97 goes Rogue
Barry Hertz
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I Saw the TV Glow is a heartbreaking nightmare for the rerun generation
This image released by A24 shows Helena Howard in a scene from "I Saw the TV Glow." (A24 via AP)
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Director Sam Taylor-Johnson made Back to Black because she wanted to give late singer ‘her agency back’
Johanna Schneller
Why Winnipeg is set to steal the Cannes Film Festival spotlight
Langue universelle_credMaryseBoyce.jpg. rv-ff-cannes-winnipeg-0515

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