For 6,727 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 3.3 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: | The Wolf of Wall Street | |
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Lowest review score: | A Haunted House 2 |
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Barry Hertz
After all its blood is spilled – on perfectly white sheets of ice and snow, of course – Slash/Back still announces the arrival of a major talent in Innuksuk. Here is hoping that she gets to kill bigger and better Canadian actors for many years to come.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Barry Hertz
A stupendously dull action-comedy that is devoid of both thrills and humour.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Barry Hertz
Elvis is as much a ride following the highs and lows of the musician’s fabulously rich and sad life as it is a one-way journey into the extremities of its director’s exhaustive imagination. For better, and worse.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Jun 23, 2022
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Barry Hertz
S#!%house genuinely engaged with the complexities of insecure, imbalanced romantic relationships, and the flawed men who pursued them. Cha Cha Real Smooth settles for a sickly sweet sitcom approach. As Andrew might sigh during a bar-mitzvah shift: oy vey.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Barry Hertz
If you can divorce Lightyear’s shareholder-appeasing origins from its actual cinematic accomplishments, then we’re left with a rather beautiful, often thrilling, sometimes devastating adventure.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Jun 14, 2022
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Barry Hertz
Perhaps sensing that the film needs all the toe-tapping energy it can get, Spiderhead’s cast make the most out of their thin material.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Jun 13, 2022
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Aparita Bhandari
Visually exhilarating as it may be, it’s worthwhile to remember that RRR is inspired by true events. It’s a work of historical fiction that’s just as inventive as its thrilling special effects.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Jun 10, 2022
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Barry Hertz
There is something undeniably charming about the film in spite of itself, its familiar but pleasant narrative momentum and tense on-court action wrapped around a lovably scruffy lead performance from a man who knows how to turn it on when he wants to.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Jun 10, 2022
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Barry Hertz
After almost two and a half hours, all of it glued together with plot-vomiting dialogue and characters that only vaguely resemble the ones Spielberg carefully built, Dominion becomes its very own Jurassic Park: Designed to thrill and enchant, it instead becomes a ride to survive.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Jun 8, 2022
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Barry Hertz
Maverick works its wonders thanks to the perfect match of star power, source material ripe for retrofitting, and a director who knows how to wring the best out of his leading man and, more importantly, when to get the heck out of his way.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 24, 2022
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Barry Hertz
It is a small story told with slightly greater ambition than the small-screen affords. The animation is slicker, the original-songs budget more generous (the movie is, like the series, half-comedy and half-musical), and the guest stars are plentiful. It is ideal lazy summer Saturday matinee viewing.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 23, 2022
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Barry Hertz
The new Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers movie is a delightful, zippy and genuinely fun thing- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 19, 2022
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Barry Hertz
With Men, the British filmmaker is stubbornly needling his audience with a never-ending barrage of pointy-ended questions that he has neither the inclination nor intention of vaguely addressing or even thinking through on his own terms. Men is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, all scrawled in crayon.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 18, 2022
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Barry Hertz
As a conversation-starter, though, Pleasure hits all the spots – and sometimes soars far beyond thanks to the work of Kappel, whose performance is absolutely committed, fearless and entrancing.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 16, 2022
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Barry Hertz
The many stumbling blocks, setbacks and eventual (spoiler alert for a three-quarters-of-a-century-old war) triumphs of Operation Mincemeat are handled by a deft crew of real-life stiff-upper-lip types played by the finest U.K. actors working today.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 13, 2022
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Amil Niazi
Happening is set in the sixties, but Diwan’s stark, unwavering direction, coupled with sparing costumes and cinematographer Laurent Tangy’s intimate lens, lend the film a sense of timelessness. The power of Happening is in the terrifying knowledge that Anne’s struggles could be happening to anyone, at any time.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 13, 2022
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Johanna Schneller
There may be a universe in which I feel the barest thread of emotional connection to even one thing that happens during the 126 minutes of loud, smeary nonsense that is Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. But I doubt it.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted May 3, 2022
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Barry Hertz
The brutal, bloody and bare-chested revenge thriller is essentially one big, long war cry – a guttural, primal grunt of a movie that is all raging testosterone and incendiary machismo. And I loved nearly every minute of it.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 19, 2022
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Barry Hertz
There are great things to be found in little packages, and Islands offers tremendous evidence that, if Edralin might ever be given more than the bare minimum of resources, the director will create something gigantic.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 18, 2022
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Barry Hertz
A cheap, crass and ruthlessly sloppy skewering of celebrity culture that is barely a millimetre above the material it thinks it is so sharply satirizing, Gormican’s new film is the definition of disappointment.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 18, 2022
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Kate Taylor
An icy Sarah Gadon can’t plumb it, offering a quietly mannered performance where a beautifully furrowed brow and occasional tear suggest the character cares more about looking elegant than dying. Thankfully, in the warmer roles of Yoli and her resilient Mennonite mother, Alison Pill and Mare Winningham do find the big broken heart at the core of this story.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Sep 13, 2021
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Sarah-Tai Black
Paris, 13th District is not a revelation of a film, but it is a charismatic collection of moments worth spending time with.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Sarah Hagi
Ross’s formulaic direction could have been delivered by a robot or algorithm and nobody would have noticed. Watching Father Stu feels like enduring a B-movie that would never see the inside of a cinema (the film is playing exclusively in theatres) and be instead relegated to the bottom of a streaming or VOD queue – only it holds the star power and charisma of Wahlberg.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Aparita Bhandari
Unlike the first movie, where aspects of the video game were more seamlessly integrated into the plot, Sonic 2 relies more on generic themes such as friendship and loyalty, as well as what makes a hero.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 12, 2022
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Amil Niazi
It takes you on an emotional, uplifting journey across many countries and through civil unrest, with music ultimately winning out over dark forces that would otherwise challenge and limit free expression and art.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 12, 2022
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Barry Hertz
Ambulance is here to remind you of the head-spinning delights of watching a genuine cinematic madman at work. This is eye-popping, ear-splitting, guffaw-inducing stuff that makes Red Notice look like the dumpster juice it truly is.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 7, 2022
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The viewer is left feeling like they’ve been sitting in a double-decker tour bus: You’re exposed to a lot, but it’s all surface level.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 6, 2022
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Anne T. Donahue
Triumphantly, Young’s work with her ever-changing (and aging) character succeeds in bringing a complicated and resilient character to life.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 6, 2022
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Brad Wheeler
The nostalgia quotient might be indulgent overload for some, though catnip for others.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 6, 2022
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Sarah-Tai Black
It is a film that asks audiences to take the plunge into chaos and confusion, so that we’re able to fully see the innate humanity of what remains when the dust of it all settles.- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- Posted Apr 6, 2022
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