Toronto Star
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
0.5/4
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
Remarkably ham-fisted and tone deaf throughout.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
2
2/4
Vox Lux (2018)
Vox Lux plays like the loveless and cynical flip side to Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
3
1.5/4
Aquaman (2018)
None of it makes a ripple of sense, even when blown up to IMAX 3D size.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
4
3.5/4
Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) (2018)
A moving meditation on what truly constitutes the meaning of family.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
5
2.5/4
Mirai (2018)
There's enough wisdom to be found in this engaging tale for a trip to the theatre. Whether to take the whole family is up to parents to decide.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
6
3/4
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
There's more than a spoonful of sugar in this felicitous revisitation.
Posted Dec 18, 2018
7
4/4
The film's take-home message, if you want to call it that, is that we all have a little Spidey in us: "What makes you different is what makes you Spider-Man."
Posted Dec 13, 2018
8
2/4
Mortal Engines (2018)
There is almost no character development, the dialogue is stilted and the story itself is rather absurd.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
9
4/4
Ben is Back (2018)
Hedges' story brings it all together in a story that is urgent and unexpectedly suspenseful right down to the final frame.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
10
2/4
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
The movie tries to have it both ways, by remaining mostly true to history while also taking numerous factual liberties.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
11
3/4
The Mule (2018)
A man's restless quest for meaning and connection in an increasingly illogical and divided America.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
12
3/4
Once Upon a Deadpool (2018)
It's a clever cash snatch... and actually makes for a mildly funnier film.
Posted Dec 12, 2018
13
3.5/4
The Favourite (2018)
I command you to see it.
Posted Dec 6, 2018
14
3/4
As this doc shows, he went as low as he could possibly go, until his repugnant behaviour finally caught up with him - as it must to all such men.
Posted Dec 6, 2018
15
3.5/4
Inspirational in all the right ways.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
16
4/4
Roma (2018)
Roma will be tough to beat as the best film of 2018.
Posted Nov 29, 2018
17
3/4
His energy never seems to flag, in a film that pays full tribute to him - while also sounding the alarm that his work is more urgent than ever.
Posted Nov 29, 2018
18
3/4
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
It's a story both ecstatic and tragic, and Schnabel is more interested in the former than the latter.
Posted Nov 23, 2018
19
3/4
Border (Gräns) (2018)
It... gnaws at the brain for its subliminal messages about how we treat the people in our midst who don't fit whatever definition of "normal" we're carrying around with us.
Posted Nov 23, 2018
20
3.5/4
21
3/4
Creed II (2018)
22
2/4
Robin Hood (2018)
Sure, there are some decent action scenes and star Taron Egerton has loads of insouciant charm. But that's about it. The rest is sporadically engaging drivel.
Posted Nov 21, 2018
23
3/4
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
The internet had it coming and this movie delivers serious silicon schadenfreude. Come for the breaking, stay for the hacking.
Posted Nov 20, 2018
24
4/4
Widows (2018)
McQueen's artful slow-take style, in films like 12 Years a Slave and Hunger, would seem to make him an odd choice for the ticking-clock pace of a caper pic, but don't be fooled.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
25
4/4
Green Book (2018)
Peter Farrelly has fun with stereotypes but he also explodes them, especially the old canard of "polite" racism that is anything but.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
26
2.5/4
The Front Runner (2018)
Vera Farmiga plays Hart's wife Lee, brilliantly bringing home in just a few scenes the personal cost of a spouse's betrayal.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
27
3/4
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
28
3.5/4
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (2018)
29
2.5/4
The Grinch (2018)
30
3/4
Outlaw King (2018)
Mackenzie has assembled a very decent cast and has clearly taken great pains to get the period detail right.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
31
3/4
The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man addresses the very real title star's amusingly bizarre habit of casually barging into regular lives.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
32
3.5/4
Boy Erased (2018)
33
2/4
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
34
3/4
Transit (2019)
The dreamlike quality to the narrative just adds to the general state of confusion. It's a radical concept and it mostly works.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
35
1/4
Suspiria (2018)
"It's a mess, isn't it?" Susie says at one point, and she's certainly got that right.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
36
2.5/4
There's no doubt it's a film that will delight very young audiences but one wonders how much that enchantment will extend to the older ones.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
37
4/4
Burning (Beoning) (2018)
A movie of shadows and light that gets at populist rage by way of incendiary metaphor.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
38
3/4
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
39
3.5/4
Sharkwater Extinction (2018)
Stewart's third film is also his best... with scenes of marine genocide that should make us all weep tears of rage.
Posted Oct 26, 2018
40
2.5/4
Mid90s (2018)
It just observes, as young rebel movies have since the dawn of cinema, that life is something that happens while you're busy trying to skate around it.
Posted Oct 25, 2018
41
3.5/4
What They Had (2018)
What sets the film apart is the literate and insightful script by Elizabeth Chomko, who also directs, and a cast of stellar performers.
Posted Oct 25, 2018
42
2/4
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
It occurs to me that Johnny English might be funnier if Atkinson played Johnny silently, the way he used to do mischievous Mr. Bean, the role that made him famous.
Posted Oct 25, 2018
43
3/4
Bel Canto (2018)
The climax, almost lyrical in its brutality, packs an emotional punch that will leave audiences breathless.
Posted Oct 25, 2018
44
3/4
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
[McCarthy is] brilliantly paired with Grant, the salt to his sugar, and they both have a chance this year to win Oscars, or nominations at the very least.
Posted Oct 25, 2018
45
2/4
Halloween (2018)
It might as well be James Bond behind Michael's latex mask, noticeably weathered by four decades of abuse, for all the deviation from franchise formula we see on the screen.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
46
3/4
The New Romantic (2018)
The waif-like Barden is splendid in the central role, using her expressive eyes in the subtlest of ways to convey emotions.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
47
3.5/4
The Happy Prince (2018)
[Everett] delivers a towering and persuasive performance in a mostly sombre and sorrowful film and, as director, does a fine job of capturing the period detail.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
48
3/4
Beautiful Boy (2018)
A harrowing and frequently dispiriting watch.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
49
2.5/4
The Oath (2018)
Barinholtz doesn't fully explore his dystopian premise and he doesn't make the best use of his cast. But The Oath has the scary energy of an all-too-plausible scenario.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
50
3/4
The Guilty (Den skyldige) (2018)