Globe and Mail
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/4
The Donut King (2020)
2
2/4
Stardust (2020)
[A] rock-star biopic without the music of said rock star ends up being a pointless exercise.
Posted Nov 25, 2020
3
3/4
Superintelligence (2019)
Superintelligence arrives this week as a comedy with actual charm, wit and, yes, laughs.
Posted Nov 25, 2020
4
1.5/4
Fatman (2020)
Fatman's vision of Father Christmas is of the rough-and-tumble variety.
Posted Nov 25, 2020
5
2.5/4
The Croods: A New Age (2020)
It mostly all comes together in the end, but you still cannot help but watch the film and wonder why the need for just so much of everything.
Posted Nov 25, 2020
6
3.5/4
Sound of Metal (2020)
[T]he film is an intensely unique sonic experience that demands careful and focused aural attention.
Posted Nov 25, 2020
7
3/4
Mank (2020)
Mank is, overwhelmingly, so very interesting. But it is also something of a half-masterpiece mess.
Posted Nov 25, 2020
8
2/4
Happiest Season (2020)
There's nothing wrong with easy-viewing comfort cinema - but there's a difference between lazily entertaining your audience and insulting their intelligence.
Posted Nov 25, 2020
9
Belushi (2020)
It's an unusually well-rounded picture of a man, an era (there is a lot of insider chat about early SNL) and a love story, too.
Posted Nov 20, 2020
10
3/4
Christmas on the Square lets the viewer kick back and indulge in all things Parton.
Posted Nov 20, 2020
11
3/4
Collective (Colectiv) (2020)
12
1.5/4
The Last Vermeer (2020)
[R]est soundly knowing that The Last Vermeer is a pale impersonation of a movie.
Posted Nov 18, 2020
13
3/4
Thanks to some skillful, nuanced editing - and the forgiveness of time that comes with three decades - Coppola's experiment is an offer you (sorry) can't refuse. Mostly.
Posted Nov 18, 2020
14
3/4
Freaky (2020)
This is candy-coloured mayhem, bright and snappy and enjoyably wince-inducing in its desire to disgust.
Posted Nov 11, 2020
15
1.5/4
A Rainy Day in New York (2020)
A Rainy Day in New York arrives today like a desperate, frequently nauseating plea to Make America Woody Again...
Posted Nov 10, 2020
16
1.5/4
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy is a bad film, inert and clichéd and largely devoid of cinematic imagination.
Posted Nov 10, 2020
17
2.5/4
The Life Ahead (2020)
Ultimately, Ponti's film survives on the one surprise that's not much of a surprise at all: the power and majesty of his lead actress.
Posted Nov 3, 2020
18
3/4
More Than Honey (2013)
For patient science-minded kids and adults, it should find the sweet spot between environmental advocacy and visual pleasure.
Posted Nov 3, 2020
19
2.5/4
Cup of Cheer (2020)
The result is messy, zippy and smart-alecky. But never boring, and occasionally funny enough to warrant a spit-take or three.
Posted Nov 3, 2020
20
3/4
The Kid Detective (2020)
Brody makes pitifulness compelling, even dashing. We want Abe to succeed because we want Brody to succeed.
Posted Nov 2, 2020
21
3/4
22
3/4
Let Him Go (2020)
23
2.5/4
The Craft: Legacy (2020)
24
2.5/4
Holidate (2020)
The movie surprises on almost every level, breaking a number of contemporary rom-com rules along the way thanks to Tiffany Paulsen's self-aware screenplay.
Posted Oct 28, 2020
25
3/4
Come Play (2020)
26
2.5/4
His House (2020)
There is an excellent short film hiding in the corridors of His House - it just needs a slight renovation.
Posted Oct 27, 2020
27
2/4
The Empty Man (2020)
28
2.5/4
With too much salutation and not enough action, this is a (fine) companion to the album but not a freestanding film.
Posted Oct 23, 2020
29
3.5/5
Memories of Murder (2003)
30
Inside Lehman Brothers (2018)
While seeming small-scale, it's really about the financial crisis that caused a great recession, and how constraints on financial institutions are again being diminished.
Posted Oct 23, 2020
31
3.5/4
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
An essential piece of 2020 culture, distilling the mania of this cursed year into a compact 95 minutes of jaw-dropping cringe comedy.
Posted Oct 21, 2020
32
2/4
Over the Moon (2020)
But watching Over the Moon unfold over its too-leisurely 95 minutes, the filmmakers' efforts feel rather ... not "crass," exactly. But certainly off.
Posted Oct 20, 2020
33
4/4
Time (2020)
34
2/4
2 Hearts (2020)
Frankly, 2 Hearts is the drama this year deserves. One that starts with promise before descending into madness.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
35
2/4
Rebecca (2020)
36
2/4
The Secrets We Keep (2020)
37
3/5
Totally Under Control (2020)
38
2.5/4
Clouds (2020)
39
40
This is a fascinating but frustrating documentary to watch. Buried beneath its surface is the fabulous and tragic story of a store, a culture and a city's soul.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
41
1.5/4
100% Wolf (2020)
100% Wolf will leave you howling - not with laughter or delight but in despair for some semblance of a plot in its mercifully short run time.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
42
3/4
Percy (2020)
Moralizing and a populist bent are at work, but not out of control. Well, not until the credits roll to the sounds of Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land, anyway.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
43
2.5/4
Charm City Kings (2020)
Overall, it's a film that is not great but just fine.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
44
3.5/4
Yellow Rose (2020)
What we are left with is a true and honest account of how quickly the lives of millions change overnight.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
45
4/4
The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)
[Radha] Blank is hilarious and candid in this must-watch film.
Posted Oct 6, 2020
46
2.5/4
On The Rocks (2020)
Telling a sitcom-simple story with a frustrating lack of emotional and narrative depth, Coppola has produced a distressingly disposable film.
Posted Oct 3, 2020
47
2/4
2067 (2020)
48
2/4
The Glorias (2020)
49
3.5/4
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Sorkin's winks are so shameless that you can hear them flutter across your own living room, but that doesn't make them unenjoyable, either.
Posted Oct 2, 2020
50
3/4
Meeting the Beatles in India (2020)