Film Reviews

Nautical Dracula thriller The Last Voyage of the Demeter is wham-bam-thank-you-Bram silliness

Love-triangle drama Passages is a messy romance that breaks up before you have the chance to reject it

Canadian documentary Satan Wants You gets lost by the devil in the details

Dark comedy Shortcomings is the anti-Crazy Rich Asians

Breaking ooze: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is super-sewer fun

Canadian drama North of Normal is a too-gentle tale of exceptionally bad parenting

Call the exorcist: Disney’s deathly dull Haunted Mansion is a franchise fit for foreclosure

Australian horror movie Talk to Me delivers a deliciously demented jolt of Down Under doom

Christopher Nolan’s masterful Oppenheimer is the perfect movie for the end of the world

C’mon Barbie, let’s go party: Greta Gerwig’s wickedly smart comedy is a perfect Ken

Canadian drama Concrete Valley delivers an uncanny level of richly rewarding cinema

Christian Petzold’s Afire is a summer dramedy of manners that will leave you scorched

Mockumentary Theater Camp plays it safe and Sondheim

Tom Cruise defies death with glorious gusto in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Canadian drama This Place is a complicated love letter to the places we call home

No hard feelings Jennifer Lawrence, but Joy Ride is the best R-rated sex comedy of the summer

A new Gordon Lightfoot documentary will leave you lightheaded, but in a good way

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny belongs in a museum, preferably a sub-basement no one visits

Shamim Sarif’s Polarized takes a close look at issues of race, sexuality and religion

Jennifer Lawrence can’t save limp, faux-raunchy comedy No Hard Feelings

Asteroid City is Wes Anderson’s answer to Marvel’s multiverse, except entertaining and inventive

Horror satire The Blackening continues the wry, bloody tradition of Get Out

Sloppy superhero epic The Flash speeds past originality straight into empty pop-junk nostalgia

Burn after reading? Pixar’s Elemental proves the animation giant ain’t worth extinguishing yet

Junky Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is a lazy prequel even ChatGPT would be embarrassed by

Without Precedent offers definitive look at Supreme Court of Canada’s Rosalie Abella

Fateful attraction: Celine Song’s Past Lives destined to live as one of the year’s best films

Superb Spider-Man sequel Across the Spider-Verse comes out swinging

Boo-urns: Add ho-hum horror flick The Boogeyman to list of weak Stephen King adaptations

The shock and awe of Gerard Butler is on full display in gloriously gritty Mission Kandahar

Be kind and watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus in excellent dramedy You Hurt My Feelings

Disney’s The Little Mermaid remake proves life isn’t better down where it’s wetter

Paul Schrader ignores Facebook for a second to make the thoughtful thriller Master Gardener

Vin at all costs: Fast X is gloriously stupid, and stupidly glorious

Canadian documentary Twice Colonized might be the most raw, personal film you will see this year

Book Club’s four stars shine bright even if the script falls flat