Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
79%
“Revenge of the Sith may be the strongest in the series since the original -- certainly it's the darkest and coolest since The Empire Strikes Back. ” –
National Post
Apr 18, 2025
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Sinners (2025)
98%
“Sex and garlic and the blues. That’s Sinners in a nutshell.” –
National Post
Apr 18, 2025
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Sacramento (2024)
89%
B
“Sacramento is a well-made, well-acted comedy drama that does just about everything right and almost nothing unexpected. Director Michael Angarano and Michael Cera play old friends with commitment and fatherhood issues that need solving. Cue the road trip!” –
Original Cin
Apr 10, 2025
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The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
97%
A
“This feature-length remake of a charming 2007 short film tells of a self-obsessed, slightly has-been-ish musician who arrives on a remote island to play a gig for one well-heeled fan. Then his ex-partner arrives too. British cringe comedy at its best.” –
Original Cin
Apr 3, 2025
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Village Keeper (2024)
B
“A first feature from Canada's Karen Chapman, Village Keeper tells a moving story of several generations of family trauma. But its proportions felt a little off: too much flashback, cutaway, and innuendo. A longer runtime may have helped it breathe.” –
Original Cin
Mar 28, 2025
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The Penguin Lessons (2024)
80%
A-minus
“The Penguin Lessons is a charmer: a warmer of cockles, a tugger of heartstrings, even a jerker of tears if you’re not careful. And while it may in hindsight seem a little over-engineered to do all those things, that doesn’t dampen the effect. ” –
Original Cin
Mar 26, 2025
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Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants (2024)
A-minus
“The film seems to promise a deep dive into the life of Lucy, born in 1975 in Sri Lanka and living at the Edmonton Valley Zoo since 1977. But this doc casts a wider net, covering zoos and sanctuaries and everything between. Dizzying but well-meaning.
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Original Cin
Mar 19, 2025
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Can I Get a Witness? (2024)
67%
A
“Can I Get a Witness?, from Ann Marie Fleming, imagines a future where, to save the planet, everyone agrees life must end at 50. It’s a thought-provoking concept, lovingly told from the perspective of two “documenters” whose job is to record those ends.” –
Original Cin
Mar 13, 2025
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The Silent Planet (2024)
A-
“Despite a hackneyed opening, The Silent Planet soars thanks to a whip-smart screenplay from director Jeffrey St. Jules, engagingly delivered by Elias Koteas and Briana Middleton, who play prisoners sent to an otherwise deserted planet.” –
Original Cin
Mar 6, 2025
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Grand Theft Hamlet (2024)
93%
A
“In 2021, two British actors furloughed by the pandemic, were playing an online video game when they came upon a virtual outdoor theatre and decided to put on a play. This documentary chronicles their weird and ultimately triumphant journey.” –
Original Cin
Feb 21, 2025
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Parthenope (2024)
45%
C
“Celeste Dalla Porta plays the titular character, a breathtaking, beguiling beauty who is also smart. But in Sorrentino’s screenplay, there is precious little going on beneath her alabaster exterior. The camera does love her breasts, mind you.” –
Original Cin
Feb 20, 2025
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Love Hurts (2025)
19%
C-
“The best thing is Ke Huy Quan's mild-mannered realtor who turns into a badass killing machine. Second-best is… well, I guess that’s it. Shaky cinematography and a confusing mush of a plot explains why this film opened in the doldrums of February.” –
Original Cin
Feb 7, 2025
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Companion (2025)
93%
A-
“Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher star as a guy and his robot girlfriend, in this comedy-thriller that is so much better than even its trailers make it out to be. A rare January treat.” –
Original Cin
Jan 29, 2025
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Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025)
62%
D-plus
“An unnecessary sequel to a meh movie from seven years ago, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera reunites Gerard Butler (bad cop), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (good robber) and director Christian Gudegast for a tale of diamond thefts and double-crosses. Yawn.
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Original Cin
Jan 10, 2025
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)
85%
B-
“The third Sonic movie finds things getting a little crowded, with Shadow (Keanu Reeves) joining the other video-game-inspired aliens, and Jim Carrey doing double duty as his own grandpa. Diminishing returns from this one after two so-so outings.” –
Original Cin
Dec 19, 2024
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The End (2024)
56%
B+
“Too long — cut the musical numbers and it’d be more manageable — The End is still a fascinating moral tale about the last family on Earth (wealthy, natch) living deep in a salt mine. The cast, including Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon, are excellent.” –
Original Cin
Dec 13, 2024
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Queer (2024)
77%
A-
“Daniel Craig stars as a fictionalized William S. Burroughs in this adaptation of the 1985 novella set in Mexico in the early ’50s. His character becomes infatuated with a U.S. ex-soldier and with a hallucinogenic plant in this excellent, trippy drama.” –
Original Cin
Dec 12, 2024
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Werewolves (2024)
48%
C
“Werewolves is not quite stupid enough to be a guilty pleasure, and not quite good enough to be an innocent one. Frank Grillo stars as a molecular biologist who’s also handy with a gun, fighting werewolves spawned by a supermoon, if you can believe it.
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Original Cin
Dec 6, 2024
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Your Tomorrow (2024)
A
“A kind of post-apocalyptic doc, the film chronicles the last summer of Toronto’s dormant Ontario Place prior to construction of a highly contested spa. A tribute to an attraction that was meant to last forever, and a reminder than nothing does.” –
Original Cin
Dec 5, 2024
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Y2K (2024)
42%
D+
“Kyle Mooney has had a good run on Saturday Night Live, but as co-writer and director of this horror-comedy set at the turn of the century, he fails to make much of an impact. Jaeden Martell (channelling Marty McFly) and Rachel Zegler star.” –
Original Cin
Dec 4, 2024
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All the Lost Ones (2024)
A-minus
“More mid- than post-apocalyptic, All the Lost Ones is an effective cat-and-mouse thriller about a peaceful family trying to survive a near-future civil war. Violent, but not gratuitous, it earns every splatter.” –
Original Cin
Nov 28, 2024
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Wicked (2024)
87%
“The leads are excellent, and the movie knows when to pull in for a closeup that can reveal more nuanced emotion than you’d ever get from a Broadway performance. ” –
National Post
Nov 24, 2024
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Gladiator II (2024)
70%
A-
“Don’t go to Ridley Scott’s sequel for historical accuracy. Go for the thrills of another underdog Colosseum fighter (Paul Mescal) battling the Empire. The film doesn’t quite match the Oscar-worthy heights of the 2000 original, but it’s still entertaining.” –
Original Cin
Nov 20, 2024
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Heretic (2024)
91%
A
“Mormon missionaries Sister Paxton (Chloe East) and Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) knock on the wrong door (Hugh Grant is behind it) in this tense thriller-horror. After almost 90 minutes of religious banter, the violent conclusion feels almost cathartic.” –
Original Cin
Nov 8, 2024
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Meanwhile on Earth (2024)
81%
B
“In Jeremy Clapin’s Meanwhile on Earth, a woman (Megan Northam) mourns her brother, lost on a deep-space mission, until unseen aliens offer to return him — for a price. An unsatisfying ending aims for mysterious but lands on confusing.” –
Original Cin
Nov 8, 2024
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