Faces, Places Friday, February 16, 7pm & 9pm Carbon Arc Cinema, 1737 Summer Street $8.75 carbonarc.ca The great French filmmaker Agnès Varda combines forces with the street artist J.R. in Faces, Places, a unique and fascinating documentary that follows the pair around the countryside talking to people and creating building-sized portraits of them on giant […]
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Film review: Call Me By Your Name
As is usual, Call Me By Your Name arrives in Halifax after nearly five months of rapturous response, beginning on the festival circuit in September, paralyzing gay Twitter in December and losing all of its Golden Globes last week. (Advice to men: Try not to make an awards bid when Daniel Day-Lewis is out here, […]
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Film review: My Friend Dahmer
My Friend Dahmer is disturbing from the beginning, probably because we already know the subject’s destiny. The film is based on a graphic novel of the same name, in which John “Derf” Backderf (played by Alex Wolff in the adaptation) recounts his high school friendship with soon-to-be rapist, serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. Former […]
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Film review: Burn this mother! down
T he best reason to see mother! is Michelle Pfeiffer, one of our finest and least working actors, as she snarls and simmers and makes Jennifer Lawrence feel bad. There is no other reason to see mother!, Darren Aronofsky’s latest. Not since Scream 2 has a movie with a top-secret plot made you feel so […]
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Florence Pugh nails it in Lady MacBeth
Lady Macbeth has long been a go-to scapegoat descriptor for a manipulative woman, a crazy bitch with a sexual and/or emotional hold over her man, using him to do her dirty work. Once considered flaws of character; in 2017 Lady Macbeth is an aspirational hero. Our eponymous lady is Katherine (Florence Pugh), barely out of […]
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Ingrid Goes West continues Aubrey Plaza’s summer of weirdness
Aubrey Plaza continues her summer of weirdness, following up July’s improvised convent romp The Little Hours with the very black comedy Ingrid Goes West. Plaza’s Ingrid is depicted as insane from the outset—the opening scene sees her pepper-spraying a bride after not being invited to the wedding and we soon find out they barely knew […]
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Review: Meatballs
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Review: Landline
Writer-director Gillian Robespierre reunites with muse Jenny Slate two summers after their sleeper hit abortion comedy Obvious Child to create Landline, a ’90s-set family drama that retains much of their first film’s casual sexuality, intimate connections and bursts of ribald comedy, to mostly the same success. Slate is Dana, a New Yorker in a long-term […]
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Spider-Man: Homecoming is effervescent, witty and fun
The third time is actually the charm for Spider-Man, which has five bad movies to its name in a bizarre, expensive and long-running attempt to turn this cartoon into a high-quality living thing. Andrew Garfield was in his 30s as Peter Parker; Tobey Maguire was 26 when he started this whole mess off in 2002. […]
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Beatriz at Dinner: deeper than it looks
Beatriz at Dinner has the hallmarks of a typical Sundance feature: Goats as pets; Chloe Sevigny; a very attractive actor—in this case, Salma Hayek—saddled with bad bangs in an attempt to make her look “regular;” a Duplass brother (Jay) and underwater dream sequences. It’s a lot. But it was written by Mike White—he of the […]
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Everything, Everything: The latest in sick teen romance
The Sick Teen Romance genre has had a few notable entries in the past few years: The highest profile being the overwrought The Fault in Our Stars; the best being the gentle and lovely Me and Earl and the Dying Girl; the most recent being the just-OK The Space Between Us. They all follow the […]
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The Wall: A compelling one-man show
Doug Liman marries his former indie sensibilities to his contemporary action heart in The Wall, a surprisingly compelling one-man show for the British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Taylor-Johnson and John Cena are waiting out a sniper in Iraq, even though president Bush has just declared victory for the US. The sniper picks off Cena early on—live status […]