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Review: Licorice Pizza is great, despite the unfortunate Asian joke
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson). 133 minutes. Exclusive 70MM presentation opens Friday, December 24 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Rating: NNNNN Maybe it's ill-advised to admit this, but... -
Review: Steven Spielberg brings West Side Story back to stunning life
WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg). 156 minutes. Opens Friday (December 10) in theatres everywhere. Rating: NNNNN West Side Story is Steven Spielberg’s first musical, officially... -
TV Review: Succession goes beast mode for season three
SUCCESSION: Season Three (Jesse Armstrong), premieres Sunday (October 17) at 9 pm on Crave. Rating: NNNNN Succession became a social media sensation in its last season. Each... -
Review: Mass finds shattering drama in a church basement
MASS (Fran Kranz). 107 minutes. In theatres Friday (October 15). Rating: NNNNN In a small church basement, two couples meet for a face-to-face conversation. We... -
Review: Only Murders In The Building is your next true-crime obsession
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING (Steve Martin, John Hoffman). New episodes Tuesdays on Disney+ Canada. Rating: NNNNN Andy Warhol was wrong. It wasn’t that everyone... -
Review: Believe it or not, Pig offers one of Nicolas Cage’s finest performances
PIG (Michael Sarnoski). 90 minutes. In theatres Friday (July 23). Rating: NNNNN Michael Sarnoski’s first feature casts Nicolas Cage as Rob, an Oregon recluse who... -
Review: Ted Lasso season 2 is the best show on television
TED LASSO: SEASON 2 (Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence). New episodes streaming Fridays on AppleTV+. Rating: NNNNN The second season of producer/star Jason Sudeikis’s sly take... -
Review: HBO’s Hacks will make you stand up and cheer
HACKS (Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky). All 10 episodes currently streaming on HBO Max and Crave. Rating: NNNNN Of the dozens of things... -
Review: We Are Lady Parts is the feminist Muslim punk-rock comedy we all need
WE ARE LADY PARTS (Nida Manzoor). New episodes Wednesdays at 9 pm and 9:35 pm on Showcase, and streaming on the Global TV app. Rating:... -
Review: The Mitchells Vs. The Machines is the robopocalypse comedy we’ve been waiting for
THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES (Michael Rianda). 110 minutes. Available to stream on Netflix Canada on Friday (April 30). Rating: NNNNN Family road trips suck,... -
Review: Judas And The Black Messiah collapses America’s past and present into one awful continuous moment
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (Shaka King). 127 minutes. Available as a premium VOD rental February 12. Rating: NNNNN The events of Judas And The...
