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After two years of being nearly silenced by the pandemic, the Cannes Film Festival is rebounding with some great movies. → Read More
Benedict Cumberbatch’s dyspeptic mystic returns in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and it’s a head-rattling mess. → Read More
With topics covering a gamut of themes, Hot Docs runs April 28 to May 8 with the goal to show the best docs the world has to offer. → Read More
Robert Eggers’ new movie, which strips Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” back to its Icelandic and Scandinavian folklore roots, is a payback tale for the ages. → Read More
In his annual Oscar predictions, movie critic Peter Howell says “CODA” has gained Best Picture momentum over most nominated film “The Power of the Dog,” but look for “Dog” director Jane Campion to be rewarded. → Read More
Feature debut by Toronto writer/director Domee Shi is the blast of creativity Pixar needs, Peter Howell says. → Read More
There’s nothing funny about “The Batman,” Matt Reeves’ spellbinding reboot of the Dark Knight saga, with Robert Pattinson as the haunted vigilante justice seeker. → Read More
There’s an upside to being possessed by demonic forces, as Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl discovered while making the movie “Studio 666,” the band’s new horror comedy. → Read More
“Aline,” the contrived biopic of a fictional Quebec singer who’s “freely inspired” by Céline Dion, may not be the worst movie of 2022. But it will surely be the year’s weirdest one. → Read More
Beloved for movies such as “Animal House” and “Ghostbusters,” Reitman and his family donated the land for the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the Toronto International Film Festival’s headquarters. → Read More
Quebec’s Jean-Marc Vallée, a giant of Canadian and international film and TV who died Sunday at the untimely age of 58, could make a blow from a sledgehammer feel like a touch from a magic wand. → Read More
Peter Howell picks the 10 best films of 2021 along with the three worst. Hello “Eternals,” “House of Gucci” and “The French Dispatch.” → Read More
Playing at the Ontario Science Centre’s Omnimax Theatre, the film seeks to inform and excite viewers about asteroid strike prevention. → Read More
Audacious “reimagining” for film and stage classic doesn’t mess with success, movie critic Peter Howell says. → Read More
Ridley Scott’s mechanical take on a real-life tale of betrayal and homicide is dry and suffers from an unfathomable lack of style, writes Peter Howell... → Read More
“King Richard” is the inspiring and involving story of Richard Williams, the father and first coach of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams. Ju... → Read More
Benedict Cumberbatch simmers and boils brilliantly as Phil, the Marlboro Man from Hell, a cattle rancher in 1920s Montana who is determined to wreck t... → Read More
Kenneth Branagh hopes to charm his way to an Oscar with “Belfast,” a film of his childhood memories and feelings growing up in Ireland during the sect... → Read More
Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 sci-fi novel of interstellar colonization and environmental exploitat... → Read More
“No Time to Die,” the 25th official James Bond movie, has all manner of vexations. But it also has the essential Daniel Craig, who gives a magnificent... → Read More