All Reviews articles – Page 283
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Reviews'Alien: Covenant': Review
A sequel to the prequel, this Alien instalment sees the return of Michael Fassbender in dual roles.
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Reviews'Ask The Sexpert': Hot Docs Review
At 93, the straight-talking Dr Mahinder Watsa tackes sexual ignorance in his daily Mumbai Mirror column
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Reviews'Pecking Order': Hot Docs Review
New Zealand’s competitive chicken breeders fear fowl play in this highly-entertaining Hot Docs title
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Reviews'Forbidden Games: The Justin Fashanu Story' - Hot Docs Review
The tragic story of the late footballer Jusin Fashanu and his sibling John recalls a homophobic, racist Britain of the 1980s
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Reviews'Mermaids': Hot Docs Review
The practice of “mermaiding” is gently examined in this fluid, slippery doc.
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Reviews'Elián’: Hot Docs Review
The five year-old boy found floating in the Florida Straits in 1999 tells his side of the story
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Reviews'Bee Nation': Hot Docs Review
Crowd-pleaser set on Canada’s First Nation reserves opens Toronto’s Hot Docs festival
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Reviews'Frank Serpico': Tribeca Review
Dir/scr: Antonino D’Ambrosio. US. 2017. 96mins In 1971, disillusioned New York City cop Frank Serpico took on the systemic corruption he saw in the force and beyond; an action which then saw him labelled as a hero by some, and a traitor by most. With unprecedented access ...
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Reviews'Dabka': Tribeca Review
Evan Peters and Barkhad Abdi star in a story of a Canadian journalist and Somali pirates which also features Al Pacino
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Reviews'The Circle': Tribeca Review
Social media-based thriller based on Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson
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Reviews'How To Be A Latin Lover': Review
An ageing gigolo gets his comeuppance in the latest from comic Eugenio Derbez, with Salma Hayek, Kirsten Bell, Rob Lowe and Michael Cera in support
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Reviews'Aardvark': Tribeca Review
Zachary Quinto produces and stars alongside Jon Hamm in this tale of family dysfunction
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Reviews'Thirst Street': Tribeca Review
Dir. Nathan Silver. US/France. 2017. 83 minutes A love-struck American flight attendant spirals into a sado-masochistic fixation with a loutish French bartender in Thirst Street, a tale of obsession directed by Nathan Silver in gauzy hues that recall the 1970s. While he’s a prolific indie director, Thirst ...
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Reviews'My Friend Dahmer': Tribeca Review
Director Marc Meyers has a breakout hit on his hands with this graphic memoir-based drama about the serial killer’s early years, starring Ross Lynch
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Reviews'Abundant Acreage Available': Tribeca Review
A North Carolina-set comedy-drama set on a farm starring Amy Ryan and executive produced by Martin Scorsese
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Reviews'The Lovers': Tribeca Review
Director Azazel Jacobs shows a lot of promise in this shrewd, if not altogether satisfying, Debra Winger-starring comedy for A24
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Reviews'Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2': Review
Returning writer/director James Gunn turns Vol 2 into a family affair, and the Guardians are all the better for it
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Reviews'The Last Animals': Tribeca Review
A former war photographer tracks the shameful ivory trade in a galvanising documentary which is a potent mix of film and message
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Reviews'The Reagan Show': Tribeca Review
Dirs. Pacho Velez & Sierra Pettengill. US. 2017. 74 mins.There’s an otherworldliness to the video footage of Ronald Reagan’s presidency that makes The Reagan Show feel like an elaborately-constructed parable for the Trump era. Did this really happen? Was his presidency, in truth, a not-particularly elaborate, ...
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Reviews'The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson': Review
A sobering documentary looks at how transgender people have been treated as second-class citizens, even in the LGBT movement