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Havoc (2025) 67% B “It’s a hail of bullets every time in this good cop/bad cop Tom Hardy vehicle, with the gunplay usually point-blank, often in close-up and generally involving exploding heads, flailing limbs and frenetic blood-splatter. It’s more of a melee than a movie. ” – Original Cin Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Courageous (2024) A “Jasmin Gordon has created a tiny perfect drama in her first feature which follows a single mother on the edge of society with three children she’s trying to raise properly, poverty and a criminal ankle bracelet notwithstanding.” – Original Cin Apr 17, 2025 Full Review We Were Dangerous (2024) 96% B+ “A cracking good story and an auspicious directorial debut from filmmaker Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, this smart coming-of-age drama set at a girl’s reform school in the 1950s sparkles despite its grim narrative underpinnings.” – Original Cin Apr 9, 2025 Full Review The Spoils (2024) A “The Spoils spotlights the tortuous business of returning stolen Nazi art to its rightful owners, a feat hobbled by the passage of time, missing paperwork, dodgy provenance and ineffectual national laws, plus the old standbys of greed and antisemitism. ” – Original Cin Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Queen of the Ring (2024) 73% B- “This biopic of women’s wrestling pioneer Mildred Burke is nobody’s idea of a great movie, but it’s an entertaining cheese-fest with a lot of stagey charm.” – Original Cin Apr 3, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 83% B+ “This gentle and affecting drama from directors David Siegel and Scott McGehee about grief, loss, and the unconditional love of a dog feature best-in-show performances.” – Original Cin Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Darkest Miriam (2024) 85% A “Darkest Miriam is magical, mysterious and heartbreaking, although it ends on a hopeful note. It is quiet and remarkably beautiful to look at. And as Miriam falls in love with Janko,it becomes more beautiful still, as the world reflects her state of mind. ” – Original Cin Mar 26, 2025 Full Review Misericordia (2024) 95% B “Writer/director Alain Guiraudie (Stranger By The Lake) makes Misericordia vaguely sinister from the start. But moments of brilliance notwithstanding, the comedy and the dark look at human nature never quite meld. ” – Original Cin Mar 25, 2025 Full Review A Mother Apart (2024) A “The film is more a mother’s journey than a straightforward biopic, but it paints a vivid portrait of Chin and her capacity for love, not to mention her iron-clad perseverance. Chin contributes tremendous energy, but overall it is a heart-rending film.” – Original Cin Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Opus (2025) 41% B “If you don’t mistake Opus for a legit thriller, it’s a fun ride at the movies. The campy pitch-black comedy skewers entertainment reporters and the cult of celebrity with a wondrous performance from John Malkovich as a superstar-turned-cult-leader.” – Original Cin Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Last Breath (2025) 80% B “The film doesn't devote enough time to developing familiarity with the characters that would have raised the stakes while their fates were being decided. Never mind. The first half is gripping, even if it’s all eventually anticlimactic. ” – Original Cin Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Cash for Gold (2024) 100% “Deborah Puette makes an auspicious directorial debut with this engaging redemption drama about a blue collar town and the spectre of addiction in America’s heartland. It will leave you looking forward to whatever Deborah Puette does next.” – AWFJ.org Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story (2024) B+ “For reggae/hip-hop fans, this is a must-see proposition; for the uninitiated, it’s a great introduction to a formidable female artist. Kudos to director Duke for a film that will appeal to both.” – Original Cin Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% A “This is one of Mike Leigh’s tougher movies. Expect no emotional quarter. Watching the movie is not unlike the experience of being in the company of a difficult, damaged human being.” – Original Cin Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% C “Babygirl is just like any other dubious Hallmark Christmas movie, only with sex scenes.” – Original Cin Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Porcelain War (2024) 95% B+ “This powerful documentary set amid the war in Ukraine is a rare look at the reality of war and the ordinary people compelled to defend their freedom and their way of life. ” – Original Cin Dec 6, 2024 Full Review The Girl With the Needle (2024) 92% A+ “The real events that are the basis for The Girl with The Needle took place 100 years ago, but what director Magnus von Horn and co-writer Line Langebek Knudsen are presenting here is an entirely contemporary look at the precarious lives of women.” – Original Cin Dec 4, 2024 Full Review The Piano Lesson (2024) 88% A “There’s a lot going on — one family’s story, a broad slice of history, a philosophical debate about legacy, the ongoing trauma of slavery. Besides the August Wilson source material, the director has in his favour stellar performances all around.” – Original Cin Nov 7, 2024 Full Review The Sweet Hereafter (1997) 98% A “Rightly considered one of Canada’s most important films, writer-director Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter, now issued in restored form, stands the test of time. ” – Original Cin Nov 5, 2024 Full Review Juror #2 (2024) 93% A “This well-written and well-acted drama from director Clint Eastwood is genuinely intelligent entertainment. ” – Original Cin Oct 31, 2024 Full Review Absolution (2024) 55% C+ “A slow, sad, somewhat suspenseful drama about memory and identity, the film isn’t quite an action movie or a character study. File under noble failure.” – Original Cin Oct 30, 2024 Full Review Here (2024) 37% C “This reunion between Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Robert Zemeckis is like a Big Mac: fine and inoffensive in the moment, but you don’t want to look too closely or think about it too much afterward.” – Original Cin Oct 30, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% A+ “Star Mikey Madison soars in Sean Baker’s subversive, Palme d’Or-winning Cinderella story about class divides and the hired help, a snapshot of how America looks right now. ” – Original Cin Oct 24, 2024 Full Review Born Hungry (2024) B+ “Part travelogue, part Master Chef foodie outing, and part rags-to-riches Canadian success story, Avrich’s portrait of Simpson’s life is fascinating enough to hold a viewer’s attention throughout. ” – Original Cin Oct 21, 2024 Full Review Join or Die (2023) 95% B+ “This fascinating and important doc persuasively argues that community engagement is key to preserving health and democracy, maybe even extending one’s lifespan. ” – Original Cin Oct 18, 2024 Full Review
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