With “Dolemite Is My Name,” Eddie Murphy is back; and not just back in the sense of limelight, but back to doing what he does best. Making people laugh with his unique brand of incisive humor and irreverence.
All tagged Toronto International Film Festival
All-American - Hustlers
Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. Michael Douglas in Wall Street. Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers. That is the class this turn belongs in. It was a pleasure to watch someone so accurately capture Americana, and it was a pleasure to watch the film not stand in her way.
We Should Be Listening - If Beale Street Could Talk
Following up Best Picture winner Moonlight seemed like an unenviable task. Moonlight was utterly mesmerizing and had big things to say. If Beale Street Could Talk is equally mesmerizing and somehow has even bigger things to say.
Black and White - Green Book
On the surface, it looks like the sappiest of sap—a self-proclaimed balm that would show the path to solving racism. And while the movie itself isn’t much deeper than that, it is so superficially satisfying that it’s hard not to appreciate the charm.
Heist Done Right - Widows
The movie has star-power, drama and is about as well put together as anything you’re going to see this year and manages the rare feat of being a blockbuster worthy of critical praise. There truly might be something for everyone here and that is almost never the case.
To Old Friends - Halloween
Michael Myers remains the slow-walking, homicidal maniac that sparked a revolution in the genre and he is chasing down a teenage girl with a multi-generational spit. When it comes down to it, what more could you really want?
On Thin Ice - I, TONYA
I, TONYA comes together in an almost manic fashion, with changes in tone, time and perspective. It was adapted, at least in part, from interviews with the characters involved and thus ducks in and out of crisscrossing, and even conflicting, anecdotes. The end result is as dizzying a triple axel and as sharp of the blades it rests on.
Review: Colossal
Every so often, a film will attempt to straddle certain lines, but rarely does a film completely disregard notions of the boxes it is supposed to check and just tell an entertaining story that defies description.
Review: Lion
This is the best version of this movie. That doesn’t mean this is the best movie. Just that given what they started with, there were a lot of places this could have gone wrong.
Review: Snowden
While entertaining in spots, the film leaves us with a lopsided portrait of a clearly complicated man, and robs the subject matter of the tension it deserved.
Review: Blair Witch
While undoubtedly scary, nothing here is so inventive that it warrants raves.