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Review: Octavio Is Dead! pulses with life
Sook-Yin Lee’s initially disorienting film starring Sarah Gadon as a woman dealing with the death of her father comes together by the end more
Review: when movie stars play Tag, everybody wins
The frantic, often shrieky new comedy features Jon Hamm, Ed Helms, Jake Johnson and Hannibal Buress chasing Jeremy Renner – and it's a lot of fun more
Review: Becoming Who I Was meanders until its powerful conclusion
Documentary about a child monk and his mentor/servant’s journey to a Tibetan monastery is worth the trek more
Review: Beast tells a story we’ve seen and heard before
Michael Pearce’s film about a damaged woman drawn to a damaged man while their community is gripped by murders is a competent but middling genre exercise more
Review: Incredibles 2 could have flown much higher
Brad Bird’s animated superhero sequel mostly restages the stuff that worked in the 2004 original more
Review: Ocean's Eight doesn't measure up to the previous numbers
And not because Sandra Bullock’s Debbie Ocean is a poor substitute for George Clooney's Danny, but because Gary Ross is a poor substitute for Steven Soderbergh more
Review: Metamorphosis is a proactive doc about climate change
Canadian-made documentary sidesteps the ugliness of human impact on the earth in favour of capturing nature's resilience more
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TV review: Ryan Murphy's musical Pose is unflinching
After a one-note pilot, this chronicle of New York ball culture in the 80s gathers weight and prioritizes knowing LGBTQ viewers more
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Review: Adrift stays afloat thanks to actors
Shailene Woodley holds the screen effortlessly as a woman who spent 41 days lost at sea after she and her fiancé were caught in Hurricane Raymond more
Inside Out review: M/M
Beautiful ennui turns torrid in Berlin-based Canadian director Drew Lint's striking feature debut more
Inside Out review: Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
Documentary on famed makeup artist seldom rises above formulaic territory more
Inside Out review: Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
James Crump's loving doc pays homage to influential fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez with help from Bill Cunningham, Pat Cleveland and Jessica Lange more
Inside Out review: 1985
Yen Tan's moving drama set during the first wave of the AIDS crisis suggests a lot more
Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story coasts on nostalgia
Ron Howard’s Han Solo prequel is the first of the new Star Wars movies that never jumps to lightspeed more
Rachel McAdams shows a new side in Orthodox Jewish lesbian love story Disobedience
But, unlike in his Oscar winning A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio doesn’t convey the essence of his central character’s inner conflict more
Venus tackles a transgender story from an immigrant lens
Canadian writer/director Eisha Marjara's charming dramedy goes beyond the physical transition narrative more
Pope Francis: A Man Of His Word shows the inspiring leader in action, but there’s no dissent to be found
Wim Wenders doesn’t present a balanced portrait of the radical Catholic leader, but his subject’s spirit still shines through more
Deadpool 2 is watchable, but it isn’t as much subversive fun as the original
Ryan Reynolds and crew are excellent, but the laughs are muffled, there are too many secondary characters and the plot is too complicated more
The Child Remains is a simple, effective horror movie that pays homage to slow-burn genre classics
Suzanne Clément and Allan Hawco are excellent as an expectant couple spending a really bad weekend in a haunted inn more
RBG is a respectful doc about the life and career of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The directors could have delved deeper into their subject’s fascinating contradictions more
