'Hate to Love: Nickelback' Review: Music Doc Commercially Chronicles Canada Band’s their Long Road | TIFF 2023
An endearing reflection on their career up to this point.
‘They Shot the Piano Player’ Review: Animated Bossa Nova Doc From 'Chico & Rita' Team Hits All the Wrong Keys | TIFF 2023
The first sour note this film hits is a G-flat. G, as in Goldblum
'Bottoms' Review: Lesbian Fight Club Teen Comedy is the Knockout of the Summer
Seligman and Sennott are a dream team, like Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst.
'The Monkey King' Review: Legendary Chinese Monkey's Netflix Animated Flick Dons American Clothing
The writers forgot to install a clear arc, heart, charm, or anything to make a likable protagonist.
'Medusa Deluxe' Review: Dirty Rotten Stylists
I want to see Rian Johnson try to end his next Knives Out Mystery flick with an elaborate dance number.
'Meg 2: The Trench' Review: Mo' Megladons, Mo' Problems
The movie itself heard somebody in the audience call it campy and forgot that part of what defines campy is the lack of awareness of the tone.
'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem' Review: TMNT's Stylized Reboot is One Shell of a Blast
If a group of animators who once doodled Cool S's with colored pencils, markers, and crayons as kids designed a movie, it would be this one.
‘Haunted Mansion’ Review: All Thrills, No Chills in Ghoulishly Generic Disney Update
I caught Walt Disney’s ghost on its way to the projectionist booth holding the film canister that said “Haunted Mansion straight-to-Disney+ reboot,” but nobody believed me.
'Oppenheimer' Review: Nolan's Historical Drama on the Atom Bomb Father Brings the Boom
Indeed a major Nolan banger.
'Barbie' Review: Doll in Plastic Gets a Greta Gerwig Grounding in Kentastic Postmodern Campy Romp
Greta Gerwig can really turn anything into gold and give you an existential crisis with it. This time gold came in pink.