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Bleak Streetnew
British kitchen-sink realism meets crime drama in the atmospheric but underdeveloped London to Brighton.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
02-08-2008 |
Reviews
Roundabout Romancenew
Imitation is a beautiful but meandering Montreal story.
Montreal Mirror |
Jeffrey Malecki |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Federico Hidalgo, Imitation
Most Valuable Playersnew
The captivating documentary Junior portrays a season in the life of a Baie-Comeau hockey team.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
Settle the Scorenew
Clément Virgo and Rossif Sutherland on Poor Boy’s Game, their Halifax-set story of boxing, violence and racial tension.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Clément Virgo, Poor Boy’s Game
Feel the Painnew
The drugs don't work for Hayden Christensen in the lousy thriller Awake.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Awake, Joby Harold
Old Schoolnew
The Cemetery Club focuses on the colourful characters in an Israeli seniors' learning group
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Tali Shemesh, The Cemetery Club
'Mr. Magorium' is a Little Too Whimsicalnew
The film is cheesy and old-fashioned but not
entirely unsatisfying.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
11-16-2007 |
Reviews
'American Venus' is Just Weirdnew
With his latest film, it is as though Vancouver-based filmmaker Bruce Sweeney has taken Rebecca De Mornay's persona and given her children of her own.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
11-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: American Venus, Bruce Sweeney
'American Gangster' is a Heroin-Dealing Disappointmentnew
There's a lot that this movie promises and never delivers.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
11-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
'The District' is Comically Grotesquenew
Nothing and everything in the film works, but there are bursts of impressive creative energy that juice up the movie every time it starts to slacken, and you have to give it credit for being, as far as I know, the world's first Hungarian animated quasi-political sexually explicit rap musical.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Aron Gauder, The District
'Up the Yangtze' Captures China in Transitionnew
Full of stunning images of contemporary China, it shows us the unsettling pace at which the nation's cultures are shifting, and the manner in which the country's newfound economic super-powerhouse status is bulldozing all other concerns.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
10-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: up the yangtze, Yung Chang
All Aboard the Night Trainnew
Montreal's Clyde Henry Productions on
their strange and innovative stop-motion
animation Madame Tutli-Putli.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-12-2007 |
Reviews
'The Seeker' Is Flat and Boringnew
This film, based on the novel by Susan Cooper, is a grade-A turkey.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-05-2007 |
Reviews
Director Nicolas Roeg on the Ups and Downsnew
Whatever the reasons for his career's decline, Roeg is back in form with Puffball, his first theatrical feature since 1996's barely released Two Deaths.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
10-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Nicolas Roeg, Puffball
'Brand Upon on the Brain!' is a Deranged Spectaclenew
It's too bad everyone can't see Guy Maddin's latest in the form it was originally intended. Presented in Toronto and New York with live sound effects, narration, and even singing, Maddin’s silent movie was created with the idea of being "a lavish spectacle for the masses," in the director's own words.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brand upon the Brain!, Guy Maddin
