There’s something truly heartwarming about this small, charming, out-of-nowhere film. It’s an unassuming, familiar tale of romance and never giving up on those we truly love. Liam Page returns to his quaint hometown after eight years touring as a country superstar. But when he does, there is a less-than-joyous crowd of family and friends upon…

There’s something especially heartbreaking about a filmmaker’s failure when dealing with a story of real-life heroism. To fumble with a fictional script is an afront to the writer and audience, but to create a plodding, boring mess of an event that inspired the world is especially distasteful. Here, bravura director and film icon Clint Eastwood…

This ending to the acapella saga that captivated a nation provides the closure fans of the Pitch Perfect franchise needed. But that doesn’t mean this film was all that necessary. While funny and diverting, Pitch Perfect 3 is an unoriginal effort. All the Barden Bellas are back, with no new flavour and very little character…

Mudbound is the kind of film that doesn’t just come along every day. What sets it apart from racial films like Birth of a Nation or 12 Years A Slave is that it gets its message through within the beautiful subtleties of great filmmaking. Missing are the racial slurs that have dogged these types of…

Fatigue for real-life war films is beginning to set in for me. I can only watch so many “based on a true story” fare before I long for some well-written fiction. But don’t discount 12 Strong as just another genre piece: It’s truly a feat of heroism and heart that shouldn’t be missed. It tells…

This is a film that’s so good, it makes you want to immediately see the terrible film it was based on, if only to keep the dream alive a little longer. James Franco is incredible playing real-life director and actor Tommy Wiseau, whose film The Room became one of the worst films of all time…

If you’re going to make a movie in which the audience knows the ending — for the love of God, make it a fun ride to the conclusion. This story of the Washington Post’s fight to publish The Pentagon Papers and their battle for the freedom of the press is a pot-boiler that spends more…

Satirical, bitingly funny films like I, Tonya live and die by how game the performers are to give it all. U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding is infamous, and anyone with an eye on the news in 1994 will surely remember the case. Margot Robbie — the beauty in Tarzan and Wolf of Wall Street —…

The Disney acquisition of the Star Wars franchise has introduced a whole new generation to the sci-fi classics. Newly-made films The Force Awakens and Rogue One have reinvigorated the love and passion that has been burning inside cinephiles since the original in 1977. Though The Force Awakens may have caused a mass hysteria around this…

Here comes the final chapter in the erotic, repulsive film trilogy based on the Fifty Shades books. This film — inexplicably popular to the droves of women sure to fill theatres everywhere — isn’t just a terrible outing. The story of BDSM-obsessed billionaire Christian Grey and his sub relationship with his now-wife Anna isn’t just…