Film Reviews

Bloated but beautifully brutal John Wick: Chapter 4 stuffs your guts before Keanu Reeves spills them

Tender Canadian queer romance You Can Live Forever finds love in the Jehovah’s Witness community

Frankly DC, I don’t give a Shazam: Fury of the Gods is disposable superhero nothingness

Environmental drama Until Branches Bend is as deeply moving as it is upsetting

Lauded Canadian drama Riceboy Sleeps marks arrival of a ferociously talented storyteller

Toronto’s Little Tibet deserves brighter spotlight than thin, unfairly inflated drama Tenzin

Clement Virgo’s beautiful Brother is an instantly essential addition to Toronto cinema canon

Canadians who won Oscars at the 95th Academy Awards

Scream VI is bloody fun, but only half as sharp as it thinks it is, and in desperate need of Neve Campbell

Woody Harrelson shoots, misses, proceeds to keep shooting and missing, in sports comedy Champions

Willem Dafoe can’t escape dull confines of torturous psychological thriller Inside

Be kind and rewind remarkable new Canadian video-store comedy I Like Movies

Punch-drunk glove: Michael B. Jordan’s Stallone-free Creed III fights the good fight

Ireland’s Oscar-nominated The Quiet Girl speaks volumes about the power of being loved

Unsettling documentary Unseen Skies asks you to look up, before space junk comes crashing down

Electrifying drama Return to Seoul will touch your nerves and rattle your soul

Beguiling Queens of the Qing Dynasty confirms Cape Breton’s Ashley McKenzie as a truly original storyteller

Netflix’s We Have a Ghost will bore you to death

Oh, bother: Cocaine Bear is not nearly exciting as you imagined it might be, and that’s the grizzly truth

Emily Brontë biopic blurs the line between fact and fiction too much for its own good

Albert Serra’s languid but brilliant espionage drama Pacification aces its own endurance test

Kelsey Grammer drama Jesus Revolution fails to spread the good word

Matt Johnson’s riotous film BlackBerry is a new Canadian classic

Apple TV+ con-artist thriller Sharper pulls a fast one on audiences

Ugly and interminable, Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is fit to be squashed

Liam Neeson’s case goes cold in Marlowe, a detective thriller so pulpy it’ll make you choke

New drama Of an Age is underwhelming addition to sub-genre of tragic, fleeting gay romances

Chip and fails: Magic Mike’s Last Dance doesn’t move the way Channing Tatum fans need it to

What to watch in 2023: Our favourite new movies

The big twist in M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin? Just how great Dave Bautista is on-screen

Black Ice may be the ice-breaker to start the discussion about the role of black people in hockey’s history

Oscar-nominated drama Close is pure, unadulterated emotional torture, in a good way

Screechy football comedy 80 for Brady is an embarrassing fumble

Anna Kendrick shines in Alice, Darling, even if the rest of the drama falls apart around her

Like Fleishman, Jesse Eisenberg is in trouble with directorial debut When You Finish Saving the World

Move over, RRR: Bollywood and Shah Rukh Khan are back with jaw-dropping action epic Pathaan