For 6,866 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: | The Red Turtle | |
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Lowest review score: | A Haunted House 2 |
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Barry Hertz
The dialogue is to the point without being eye-rolling, the action is meaty and mostly CGI-free (the highlight is a night-vision firefight) and the performances are committed, even touching.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 24, 2023
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Nearly every performance here is excellent, a beautiful balance of nerves and neuroses.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 24, 2023
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Barry Hertz
A thoroughly pointless cash grab of a thing, this new Little Mermaid is one of the most uninspired films to slither out of Disney since the company started raiding its own vault.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 22, 2023
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Barry Hertz
In Schrader’s strong, meditative hands, everything gels together to create an entrancing work that is serious and, very nearly, profound.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 18, 2023
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Barry Hertz
If family is everything to the Fast & Furious films – as lead lunkhead Vin Diesel would surely posit – then Fast X is a nuclear family reunion that goes atomic.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Anne T. Donahue
Wasting Collette’s comedic talent and Monica Bellucci’s commanding onscreen presence, the film takes what could be a subversive comment on female rage and turns it into slapstick, failing to give any character enough dimension to warrant spending 90 minutes with them.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 15, 2023
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Director and screenwriter Kelly Fremon Craig does not mess this up. She has created a film that is true to the book’s heart, but is also its own thing. And it is a (mostly) wonderful thing.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 15, 2023
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Barry Hertz
In keeping with Lucas’s general life philosophy, Mills’s film doesn’t attempt to paint a portrait of one woman, but rather a capturing of the land that woman calls home.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 9, 2023
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Amil Niazi
The best thing about Book Club: The Next Chapter is just seeing these remarkable actresses do what they do best. I hope Hollywood can make better use of them in the future.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 8, 2023
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Barry Hertz
At around the hundred-minute mark, everything in Gunn’s perfect little cinematic galaxy falls apart in a magnificently depressing fashion. It is as if the MCU higher-ups got wind of what was going down and quickly engineered a black hole of studio notes to suck the Guardians into a tesseract of meaningless set-pieces and prolonged B-plot detours.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 4, 2023
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Barry Hertz
Carmen is a wild and unrestrained attempt to empty its director’s entire brain onto the screen, and for that it deserves recognition. But the ultimate result slips too easily between heroic effort and hot mess.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 2, 2023
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Barry Hertz
If watching mass-murdering maniacs get absolutely destroyed on-screen is your thing – and it very much is mine – then Sisu is a perfectly depraved night out.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 27, 2023
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Barry Hertz
The film is all the more frustrating an experience given that it inches so close to greatness.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 17, 2023
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Barry Hertz
Its visual imagination is wonderfully unrestrained, compelling in its extremes even when it is so clearly indebted to every movie that Aster hoovered up to get here. Its tone is impressively steadfast in its desire to repel one moment, entrance the next. And its performances are across-the-board astounding in their commitment.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 17, 2023
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Barry Hertz
The trouble with Renfield, though, is the fact that it’s called Renfield and not Dracula. Snivelling when not stiff, the title character is a bore, as is Hoult’s shoulder-shrug of a performance.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 13, 2023
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Radheyan Simonpillai
Daley and Goldstein aren’t here to reinvent. They love the tropes too much. It’s that fondness for what they mock with so much silly and snappy humour that makes Honor Among Thieves so charming. That affection is obvious especially when they punch up the familiar beats with inventive action and uncommonly stylistic direction.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 13, 2023
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Sarah-Tai Black
It is tempting to call A Thousand and One a love letter of sorts, but a more accurate read might be one of heartbreak. There is love here, certainly, but more than that there is frustration, anger and sadness at the way the world refuses to help those trying hardest to endure within it.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 12, 2023
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Barry Hertz
Incendiary and furious, confident and courageous, the new thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline boasts not only the best title of the year so far but also the best score, cast and itchy, charged, electric directorial vision – all of it only ever-so-slightly goosed by a political softening that perhaps says more about contemporary American filmmaking than the storytellers working within it.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 10, 2023
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Barry Hertz
The movie is so across-the-board charming that even the most hardcore of socialists will find themselves rooting for Nike – that bastion of global corporate responsibility – to make gobs and gobs of money off the hard work of a young Black athlete.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 5, 2023
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Barry Hertz
Ultimately Murder Mystery 2 is the most business-as-usual kind of Sandler shtick, its only real surprise being how the production manages to pull off one solitary, very lonely surprise toward its end (it involves a quick appearance from Jillian Bell, bless her heart).- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 31, 2023
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Barry Hertz
Unfortunately, despite Egerton’s most dedicated efforts to pump some life into his hero, Rogers is the blandest kind of capitalist hero. Meanwhile, the various Soviets and Brits caught up in the Tetris antics are just one graphics card away from being Super Mario Bros.-ready boss-level villains.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 28, 2023
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Barry Hertz
Clocking in at a severely bloated 165 minutes, Chapter 4 is both a thrill and a slog, an all-you-can-eat buffet that insists on stuffing your guts before it spills them.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
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Barry Hertz
The experience of watching this new Shazam! is akin to watching an exceptionally wealthy but ultimately sweet and innocent child smash their toys together for 130 minutes. There’s little point in it all, but hey, at least the kid is happy.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Barry Hertz
While the film’s ending expects audiences to untie some impossible fan-theory knots, the climax is also packed to the rafters with murder and mayhem and even a little on-the-nose movie-theatre nostalgia, resulting in moments that demand fits of laughter, gasps and, of course, screams.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 8, 2023
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Radheyan Simonpillai
Harrelson never seems to have his head in the game, and not because he’s playing a character just waiting for his shot to coach the NBA. He and Farrelly appear to be slumming it in much the same way that Marcus is, as if their basic efforts working with a cast with special needs is feel-good and charitable enough.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 7, 2023
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Amil Niazi
Levack has done a remarkable job with her feature-film debut, playing with tropes that have time-honoured traditions but are always in need of a refresh.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 7, 2023
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Barry Hertz
Dafoe is captivating as always, but not even his slinking, slippery presence can save the film from turning into a rather torturous endurance test.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 7, 2023
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Barry Hertz
The actor is as engaging and captivating as ever on-screen as Adonis, yet he’s just as present and committed behind the camera, delivering a stirring string of heartwarming and jaw-breaking moments that add up to something if not exactly unique, than certainly rousing, effective and entertaining.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 2, 2023
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Barry Hertz
The film is simply operating at a speed constantly one click ahead of expectations, never satisfied that any one viewer could know where it might all be heading.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 1, 2023
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Barry Hertz
Return to Seoul is not a dour, sombre thing – it is intense, electric and confrontational.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Mar 1, 2023
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