Dom Sinacola

Tony is a remarkably lowkey film about a pretty unremarkable man. It’s also a biopic of Anthony Bourdain—prematurely departed but forever adored chef and documentarian. If you know anything about Bourdain, you might imagine a biopic with a sharper palate. Instead, and especially when the film is really cooking, all sense of the celebrity is more […]

Guilty pleasures must be on the mind of writer-director Jane Schoenbrun. Their third and latest fictional feature, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, explores a long, dark embrace with a problematic fave: specifically, an ’80s cult slasher series titled Camp Miasma. The Camp Miasma movies within Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma immediately […]

Time has always been an obsession for director Christopher Nolan. In one of his earliest films, Memento (1999), time means nothing to a man with no short-term memory. In Inception (2010), dreams constrict and warp time as much as space travel does in Nolan’s Interstellar (2014), while in Tenet (2020), time literally goes backwards.  Dunkirk […]

The end of Michael Sarnoski’s third full-length feature is in its title: The Death of Robin Hood. We wait it out. We know the iconic intellectual property—the man called Robin Hood—will die, and then he does. Then the film is over; its inevitable and straightforward. Fortunately, Sarnoski is comfortable with inevitability—something we might recall from […]

Canadian writer-director Sophy Romvari’s debut feature, the luminous Blue Heron, is revelatory—even as it intentionally offers no revelations. If you saw Romvari’s 2020 short film Still Processing (all her shorts are on the Criterion Channel), you’ve observed the director’s careful application of context, bringing the audience to understand the extent of her family’s grief without […]

Steven Soderbergh has directed 11 features since 2017—which was the year blue collar caper Logan Lucky sprung the director from a self-imposed retirement.  This bountiful run includes shot-in-secret-on-an-iPhone thriller Unsane (2018), thoughtful exotic dancer threequel Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023), bone-shaking ghost story Presence (2024), bone-dry spy story Black Bag (2025), and now The Christophers, […]

In 2023’s The Super Mario Bros Movie, audiences followed two Brooklyn plumber-brothers through a big green pipe to another dimension where anthropomorphic toadstool citizenry lived under the benevolent rule of a once-orphaned woman named Peach (voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy). Now in 2026, with the general conceit of the Mushroom Kingdom established, the sequel, The Super […]

We are aware we could have said furever.

For nearly 20 years, Torontonian best friends Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol have chronicled the everyday existences of Torontonian best friends Matt (Johnson) and Jay (McCarrol) as they attempt to book a show for their band, Nirvanna the Band, at local venue the Rivoli. Granted, they’ve never acknowledged that their band name might be a […]

Is that you Jason? I mean, Mason?

Al Pacino does not appear to ever stand up in this film.