Men in Black: International is a joyless Hollywood blockbuster
The latest, most uninspired chapter in the franchise showcases all the worst impulses of modern blockbuster filmmaking and none of its good ones.
The Souvenir nails what it’s like to be trapped in a toxic relationship in your early 20s
Joanna Hogg’s new film, the first in a trilogy, stars Tilda Swinton’s daughter Honor Swinton Byrne in her first film role.
The decadence and decay of the Montreal Grand Prix
As we try to work for a better future, the Grand Prix represents everything we should leave behind.
The Invisibles is just too Hollywood
This documentary about WWII offers a lot of insight, but drowns it in overly-slick filmmaking.
City Dreamers looks at pioneers in architecture
We spoke with Joseph Hillel, whose new documentary focuses on Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Hahn Overlander and Denise Scott Brown, four architects who have shaped the way we look at North American cities.
The Hustle is so meh
This all-female remake makes the merely okay ’80s original seem like a comedy classic.
A film about one of the greatest literary hoaxes of all time
J.T. Leroy tells the story of the famous San Francisco writer who turned out to be a fake.
Robert Lepage, artistic freedom and cultural appropriation
Lepage au Soleil captures the making of Kanata, a play about indigenous Canadians that was caught in the crossfire of the Slav controversy.
Exarcheia, le chant des oiseaux is a Greek city symphony film
We spoke to director Nadine Gomez about urban environments, modern life and the nature of reality itself.
Claire Denis on beauty and brutality in her new film High Life
Starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche, this ambitious quasi-sci-fi fable explores prison life, sexuality and spirituality.