Film criticism

Kelly McCormack’s hypnotizing performance turns Sugar Daddy into sticky, gripping drama

Bosnian War gets harrowing close-up its victims deserve with Oscar-nominated Quo Vadis, Aida?

New thriller Held is a #MeToo film that relies on twists instead of tact

Nomadland, finally available in Canada this week, is one of the best films of the year

Sorta-Canadian comedy French Exit will have you eyeing the door, despite Tracy Letts’s reincarnated cat

Family drama Little Orphans finds the past in repeat in Newfoundland

Eddie Izzard-starring spy thriller Six Minutes to Midnight runs out the clock

Oy vey, is Shiva Baby ever one smart, clever send-up of Jewish family meshugas

Shakespearean Anthony Hopkins dominates in wickedly inventive dementia drama The Father

Zack Snyder’s Justice League is the perfectly messy release for 2021, our chaotic year of hope

Matthew Bissonnette on his love for Leonard Cohen’s music, and its role in his new film Death of a Ladies’ Man

Hallelujah? Canadian film Death of a Ladies’ Man mines Leonard Cohen for late-life dramedy

Eddie Huang’s Boogie is an Asian coming-of-age story for his generation, warts and all

Amy Poehler’s Netflix dramedy Moxie peels the onion of high school

Disney+ adventure Raya and The Last Dragon offers a welcome escape, and some life lessons, too

The pop doc Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry is a cry for help

Canadian drama Anne at 13,000 ft. is a startling, bracing achievement worth celebrating

Kristen Wiig’s admirably weird Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is the anti-Bridesmaids

NFB’s Black history doc John Ware Reclaimed will leave audiences asking too many questions

Judas and the Black Messiah delivers a powerful portrait of a man who could’ve been the greatest Black leader of our time

Same-sex senior romance Two of Us is visually stunning and profound

Netflix’s The Dig excavates unexpected, worthy drama thanks to Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes

Justin Timberlake’s Apple TV+ drama Palmer doesn’t sync up with the actor’s ambitions

Ai Weiwei’s Cockroach follows Beijing’s final blow to Hong Kong democracy

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the final film of Chadwick Boseman, is an emotional hurricane

Milla Jovovich’s Monster Hunter is the best kind of super-dumb fun

Wonder Woman 1984 finally arrives to save Hollywood’s 2020 – and everyone else’s year, too

Wolfwalkers is an imaginative and beautiful coup for Apple TV+

Aubrey Plaza makes Black Bear worth hunting

Volatile teen drama Rocks covers highs and lows of adolescence with compelling sensitivity

Melissa McCarthy’s super-silly Superintelligence is the ridiculous comedy you need this winter

The Donut King, a sweet documentary that doesn’t tell the hole truth

Intense Riz Ahmed drama Sound of Metal makes an excellent case for noise-cancelling AirPods

Movie review: David Fincher’s Mank is the most interesting half-masterpiece mess you’ll watch this year