We Are The Best!, the uproariously funny and buoyant new film from Swedish auteur Lukas Moodysson, follows a trio of teenage girls who form a punk rock band. …
Archives for May 2014
Review of The Grand Seduction: The scheme may be grand but the comedy isn’t
Despite boasting a cast of the who’s who in English Canadian cinema — from Gordon Pinsent to Mark Critch to Taylor Kitsch — Don McKellar’s English adaptation of …
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Reviews: The Rover and El Ardor — On the fringes of society, you have to kill to survive
Two wonderfully atmospheric films screening Out of Competition at Cannes this year, The Rover from Australia and El Ardor from Argentina, take a look at the …
Cannes Review: Argentina’s Wild Tales is inventive, funny, but uneven
After this review of Wild Tales, read our coverage of the Cannes film festival. Argentinian Director Damian Szifron’s Wild Tales, an uneven series of short, …
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Cannes Review: The Captive is captivatingly tense but shallow
The best thing about The Captive, Atom Egoyan’s entry in this year’s Official Competition at Cannes, is the way it doles out information slowly. Egoyan frames …
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Review: Jesse Eisenberg x2 is mesmerizing in The Double
If this year’s pair of doppelgänger films, Enemy and The Double, are any indication, there’s an inherent problem with the concept. Because it requires that a …
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