Movie Reviews

Howlingly hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid shouldn't be kept a secret

Howlingly hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid shouldn't be kept a secret

By Ron Yamauchi | March 19, 2010
One never finds is a kiddie movie that is funny to all, despite featuring a central character so awful that adults are shocked it ever got made. Until Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
The Bounty Hunter leaves little to laugh about

The Bounty Hunter leaves little to laugh about

By Patty Jones | March 19, 2010
Is there one laugh in the soul-maiming action-comedy The Bounty Hunter, you ask?
Repo Men leaves something to be desired

Repo Men leaves something to be desired

By Mark Harris | March 19, 2010
Under capitalism, everything has a price...including our own bodily organs. In Repo Men, the rules of the game have changed.
The Runaways

The Runaways

By Mike Usinger | March 18, 2010
First-time feature director Floria Sigismondi gets plenty right in The Runaways, her fantastically colour-saturated, retro-looking love letter to the world’s first female rock band.
Mid-August Lunch

Mid-August Lunch

By Ken Eisner | March 18, 2010
In this charming trifle, first-time director Gianni Di Gregorio plays a put-upon, middle-aged pleasure seeker who is genially struggling to get from day to day.
Cooking With Stella

Cooking With Stella

By Ken Eisner | March 18, 2010
Indie film veterans Don McKellar and Lisa Ray star as Michael and Maya, fresh to Canada’s diplomatic compound in the capital of India, New Delhi.
Inferno

Inferno

By Mark Harris | March 18, 2010
Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea’s documentary account of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1964 Inferno is fascinating for a number of reasons.
She's Out of My League: a date movie for guys who don't date

She's Out of My League: a date movie for guys who don't date

By John Lekich | March 12, 2010
She's Out of My League is designed to be the perfect date movie for guys who don’t actually date.
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Action-packed Green Zone presents speculation as fact

Action-packed Green Zone presents speculation as fact

By Ron Yamauchi | March 12, 2010
Green Zone director Paul Greengrass really is a master of action. But there seems something unfair and cunning about applying the look of documentaries to docudramas.
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Remember Me

Remember Me

By Janet Smith | March 11, 2010
Remember Me has so many low-key surprises, from its solid character studies to its deeper ideas about the meaning of life, that you might actually remember it for a while.
Prodigal Sons

Prodigal Sons

By Ken Eisner | March 11, 2010
Even if this riveting documentary holds back some key information for as long as it can, no review of Prodigal Sons can avoid the central thrust of writer-director Kimberly Reed’s multiple returns to her hometown of Helena, Montana.
Fish Tank

Fish Tank

By Ken Eisner | March 11, 2010
The first and most enduring thing you notice about Fish Tank is how beautiful it is.
Blood Into Wine

Blood Into Wine

By Ken Eisner | March 11, 2010
If you want to know what it takes to start your own vineyard, Blood Into Wine has a lot for you.
Our Family Wedding

Our Family Wedding

By Ken Eisner | March 11, 2010
The film is a painfully humourless parade of ethnic stereotypes in the guise of a can’t-we-all-just-get-along scenario.
Hallucinogenic madness turns to action in Alice in Wonderland

Hallucinogenic madness turns to action in Alice in Wonderland

By Patty Jones | March 4, 2010
if you’re thinking you’ll need “some kind of mushroom" to absorb the Tim Burton treatment of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian tale, leave your magic fungi in your sock drawer. The hallucinogens are on the screen, man.
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