I was also asked for a favourite Christmas movie, which is tough enough to call — I went with Peter O’Toole and Katherine ...

The awards season is in full swing, and this movie — which I missed in theatres, it’s now available to rent — has been given ...

Sunday evening is the Golden Globes, a Hollywood event that’s slowly emerging from a recent history of scandal to be a real ...

The time has arrived, I can put it off no longer. I figured if I could see Marty Supreme, I’d feel confident enough to assemble this list of the best movies of 2025. This even though there are a few ...

I don’t do a list like this very often because I know how difficult it is to make any kind of movie, good or otherwise. But maybe more than in an average year, I sat through a lot of terrible ones — ...

So, for those who don’t know, James L. Brooks is a Hollywood legend. He’s worked in TV and film going back to the mid-1960s, and directed Oscar-winning fare like Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, ...

Here are a few art house films that came out in 2025, some of which are now available to rent and stream. Cloud original title Kuraudo (VOD, Criterion Channel) Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s feature feels like ...

For CBC Information Morning’s Make The Season Kind show on Friday I was given the mission to highlight movies that are about kindness and generosity. So I chose one seasonal movie that I love but ...

The Secret Agent is a deconstructed political thriller from Brazil, but almost as if the filmmaker was inspired by Robert Altman, certainly the broad palate of American films of the 1970s. His ...

An earlier capsule version of this review appeared during the coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival 2025. When I first saw Wake Up Dead Man at TIFF what struck me about the third mystery ...

The American independent cinematic cottage industry of the Duplass Brothers has largely missed me. I’ve seen both of them, Jay and Mark, in on-screen roles, mostly in association with the late, great ...

The day started well with Winter Of The Crow from filmmaker Kasia Adamik. It’s a moody, expressionistic visit to Warsaw in December 1981, behind the Iron Curtain. Lesley Manville is Joan, a British ...