Film Reviews

The Strangers: Chapter 1 is just a horror-prequel friend you haven’t met

I Saw the TV Glow is a heartbreaking nightmare for the rerun generation

Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black is a scrupulous chronicle of a bright light snuffed out

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is an underwhelming bit of monkey business

Heartbreaking drama We Grown Now feels ripped from the headlines of any major-city newspaper

Japanese drama Evil Does Not Exist is an instant classic as haunting as it is confounding

What’s the deal with Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart movie Unfrosted? It’s toast, Jerry, toast!

Anne Hathaway seduces and destroys in Prime Video’s semi-steamy The Idea of You

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt put up a charming fight, but The Fall Guy pulls its punches and punchlines

Gothic Canadian drama The King Tide will wash over you with the power of a great novel

Steve McQueen’s four-hour-plus doc Occupied City is a monumental symphony of Amsterdam history

Charming documentary The Movie Man is Cinema Paradiso for Ontario cottage country

Zendaya shines in tennis-world love triangle Challengers

In an action-movie era awash in Deadpool smirks, Boy Kills World punches above its weight

Intense drama I Don’t Know Who You Are deserves to make Canadian Mark Clennon a star

Why adventurous moviegoers need to make time for Bertrand Bonello and Radu Jude this weekend

Bizarro comedy Sasquatch Sunset tries to big-foot its way into your heart

Irena’s Vow labours to rise above Holocaust clichés

Housekeeping for Beginners shows a family that won’t be contained by convention

In Flames tells a ghost story where men harass women from beyond the grave

Food, Inc. 2 follows the formula of its predecessor, perhaps too closely

Alex Garland’s new thriller Civil War makes audacious predictions about America’s fate

Carol Doda Topless at the Condor is a cautionary tale about the perils of fame and external validation

Despite some stumbles, The First Omen is a fun, low-stakes introduction to the franchise

Over-the-top Wicked Little Letters is saved by strong performances

Girls State captures the power and struggles of young women

Dev Patel’s Monkey Man is a fleshy action film that is hampered by woozy overediting

Godzilla x Kong is an underwhelming brawl that nobody wins

The Beautiful Game reminds us that ‘every player has a story’

Club Zero is an unsettling eating-disorder thriller with no clear endgame

The Queen of My Dreams tells ambitious multigenerational tale tied together by a Bollywood romance

Immaculate falls short, but star Sydney Sweeney shows potential as a scream queen

Road House reboot starts strong, but limps to the finish line

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire offers family-oriented fun with plenty of nostalgia

Tilda Swinton shines in jam-packed Problemista