2019

DOWNTON ABBEY: A Film Solely For The Fans
DOWNTON ABBEY: A Film Solely For The Fans

Overall, Downton Abbey’s worth as a film depends on your feelings towards the original show.

GROUPERS: An Unconventional Experiment
GROUPERS: An Unconventional Experiment

Groupers isn’t perfect, and it certainly isn’t a mainstream product for the masses, but it has its merits.

THE LAST TREE: A Striking Coming of Age Story
THE LAST TREE: A Striking Coming Of Age Story

The Last Tree isn’t perfect, but it’s an honest and insightful coming of age story that deserves to find an audience.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Review: Spellbinding Filmmaking From Céline Sciamma
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE: Spellbinding Filmmaking From Céline Sciamma

Potrait of a Lady on Fire builds to an awe-inspiring, pulsating crescendo that leaves the audience’s collective heart thudding.

HAUNT: Enter At Your Own Risk
HAUNT: Enter At Your Own Risk

A conspicuously suspense-free story, Haunt feels like a missed opportunity by refusing to take its own ideas to the extreme.

Fantastic Fest 2019: DOLEMITE IS MY NAME
Fantastic Fest 2019: DOLEMITE IS MY NAME

Eddie Murphy is at his absolute best in Dolemite Is My Name. The humor and chops for drama that he brings to the role are a perfect c*cktail that you just can’t help but drink up.

Fantastic Fest 2019: WRINKLES THE CLOWN

What did people think he was doing? What did the legends say? Wrinkles the Clown is both a hilarious and terrifying documentary that tries to answer these questions.

3 DAYS WITH DAD: One Day Too Many
3 DAYS WITH DAD: One Day Too Many

3 Days With Dad does not deliver to the audience what it promises, presenting an exercise in patience that goes one day to long.

A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON: A Disappointing Aardman Adventure
A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON: A Disappointing Aardman Adventure

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon feels messily reverse engineered, a lazy Spielberg riff forcibly created just to fit the punning title.

THE SOUND OF SILENCE: An Evocative Film About The Nature Of Sound & Humankind
THE SOUND OF SILENCE: An Evocative Film About The Nature Of Sound & Humankind

Sounds and vibrations undoubtedly shape the world as we know it, in turn capable of…

Fantastic Fest 2019: SCREAM QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
Fantastic Fest 2019: SCREAM QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

Looking back on “the gayest horror film ever made”, Scream Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street is the kind of documentary you wait all year to see.

Fantastic Fest 2019: VHYES & The Magical Horror Of Television
Fantastic Fest 2019: VHYES & The Magical Horror Of Television

VHYES tells a poignant story about the odd agency a child can find in television, and the combination of joy and horror that, almost always, follows.

Fantastic Fest 2019: KOKO-DI KOKO-DA
Fantastic Fest 2019: KOKO-DI KOKO-DA

Koko-di, Koko-da is a surprising triumph, a modern fable brilliantly told and performed to expert precision.

BLOODLINE: Serial Killer Film With No Motive
BLOODLINE: Serial Killer Film With No Motive

Bloodline is a truly frustrating experience – a few less unneeded twists and turns might have made the whole thing plausible.

TIFF 2019: Pablo Larraín's Rapturous Dance Melodrama EMA
TIFF 2019: Pablo Larraín’s Rapturous Dance Melodrama EMA

Pablo Larraín’s Ema is certainly the most unpredictable, wild, and unconventional study of a frayed woman at this year’s TIFF.