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Reviews: The People’s Joker

December 9, 2024

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Buckle up puddin’! Writer/director Vera Drew’s unique spin of the ‘Clown Prince of Crime’ combines elements of Todd Philips’ Joker (in…

Reviews: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

December 6, 2024

Final Rating: 3/5 There’s a dreamlike quality to Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point, the latest from director Tyler Thomas Taormina. Taormina invites the audience…

Reviews: The Girl With The Needle

December 2, 2024

Final Rating: 3.5/5 There but for the grace of God… Director Magnus Von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle, Denmark’s official entry to the…

Reviews: 100 Yards

November 12, 2024

Final Rating: 3.5/5 In 100 Yards, a series of duels between two rivals over control of a martial arts academy engulfs the city of…

Reviews: Dahomey

November 11, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 The western world finally seems to understand that museums filled with artifacts collected by colonizers who went around plundering anything they…

Reviews: Juror #2

November 8, 2024

Final Rating: 4.5/5 In Juror #2, Nicholas Hoult plays Justin Kemp, a man called for jury duty in a trial surrounding the murder of…

Reviews: The Carpenter

November 5, 2024

Final Rating: 2/5 From director Garrett Batty, The Carpenter tells the larger-than-life story of Oren (Kameron Krebs), a “Northman” in Ancient Palestine who becomes…

Reviews: Twisters

October 30, 2024

Final Rating: 4.5/5 There’s something magical to Twisters, this year’s major summer blockbuster about storm-chasing. A legacy sequel to the Jan de Bont-directed Twister…

Reviews: The Apprentice

October 21, 2024

The Apprentice explores how an ambitious young real-estate mogul became the man we all know as the 45th president of the United States.

Reviews: Paying for It from VIFF 2024

October 17, 2024

Final Rating: 3.5/5 Paying For It, directed by Sook-Yin Lee, is an interesting look into an alternative form of relationships. In what feels like…