Green Book is one of the most unbelievable, hilarious and stirring films to grace cinema screens this year. So to find out it was directed by Peter Farrelly — part of the brother duo behind Hall Pass, There’s Something About Mary and The Three Stooges — is a shock to the system. Farrelly has resisted…

Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen has shocked us for years, with films Shame and 12 Years A Slave. While Widows may be his most commercial work, it shows a maturity that only solidifies has name as one of the best directors working. Set in the Chicago streets, it follows four women who are tasked with repaying…

The genuine performances and scientific awe let Canadian sci-fi romance Clara truly flourish. Suits fans know him and love him, but Patrick J. Adams drops the lawyer act and puts on spectacles to play a brooding scientist on the verge of a great discovery. Flawed, difficult and dealing with personal trauma, his Dr. Isaac Bruno…

It isn’t the first conversion therapy film to grace screens this year, but Boy Erased sure does spring forward with the most emotional depth. Though The Miseducation of Cameron Post, another film on the same topic, hit screens here in October. director/writer/actor force Joel Edgerton’s picture is far superior. There’s a trapped rage and anguish…

With a name like producer J.J. Abrams on-board, you knew this one was going to be a barn-burner. What I never would have expected, though, was this this World War II-set horror film is an absolutely scorching, terrifying piece of art. It’s a break-neck paced, terrifying movie that you won’t be able to forget. It…

For all of you who lost your confidence in Melissa McCarthy when you realized she wasn’t the “life of the party” anymore, maybe she can win you back with this sympathetic portrayal. It’s sure as hell not Bridesmaids, but Can You Ever Forgive Me? will nab her a second Oscar nomination for playing beaten, downtrodden,…

When the trailers for this film graced cinema screens, like most, I was underwhelmed. Anyone who has sat through a Mark Wahlberg Christmas release comedy the last few years knows that Daddy’s Home and its sequel aren’t exactly high art. While his affable charm and rugged masculinity can carry him through most things, I just…

Halfway through submarine thriller Hunter Killer, the missiles start flying and the tensions amp up, and I was left to wonder if it switched directors mid-shoot. The first half of this would-be great sub sub-genre film is a pot boiler with no apparent end-game in mind, where the second half is a rip-roaring, exciting action-packed…

This remake of 1970’s horror classic Suspiria is an equal parts frustrating and wildly frenetic endeavour, one which won’t be forgotten. Starring Dakota Johnson — breaking free further from her Fifty Shades chains in this off-kilter performance — it’s a chaotic, undisputable contender for the most gorgeous film of the year. When Susie (Johnson) joins…

I only needed to see Tyler Perry’s name flash across the title screen to know the type of amateurish “comedy” I was going to get. With mega-star and Girls Trip stand-out Tiffany Haddish on board, this film is a notch above Madea, but it remains below the average studio comedy due to inane plot points…