Tomato 4/5 |
Cabin Boy (1993) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
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Caché (2005) |
"SideVue: Hanekering For A New Horror. Considers Michael Haneke's films and their relationship to Austria as a "look-away society," along with their connection to the sub-genre of "New French Extremity" films." |
Brian Gibson |
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Caché (2005) |
"SideVue: Hanekering For A New Horror. Considers Michael Haneke's films and their relationship to Austria as a "look-away society," along with their connection to the sub-genre of "New French Extremity" films." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Caramel (2008) |
"Although the film isn't chatty and people are just a little too soap opera-ish photogenic, the film is often understated enough to charm. Small, tender scenes and little details make Caramel a nice, light passing fancy." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"The film glides through its well-structured script, letting the audience coast along with it and allowing the performers to stay loose and limber. And that's what's wonderful about Catch Me If You Can—it's a chase picture that's all about the perfo" |
Josef Braun |
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The Celebration (1998) |
"SideVue: Fest or Famine? Considers the scope and purpose of film festivals in light of TIFF 2009 and my own memories of seeing Vinterberg's film at TIFF in 1998." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Celebration (1998) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
The Chances of the World Changing |
"Director Eric Daniel Metzgar makes the rookie mistake of too much voiceover. And there's a disappointing vagueness around Ogust, his story, his attraction to turtles and around the creatures themselves or the efforts to protect and breed them." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Chaos and Desire (2003) |
"A little too slick and self-aware, [the movie] never sinks under the weight of its themes, but this artsy craft of a film does creak and list en route to a safe, soppy ending." |
Brian Gibson |
- |
Che (2008) |
"SideVue: Che What? Considers what the poor audience showing for Che suggests about Che's politics in our time." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Cheech (2006) |
"With its garish and seamy scenes, its flabby shots and not-snappy-enough dialogue, Cheech is often like a nasty old pair of leopard-print underwear, its elastic frayed and loose." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Chelsea Walls (2002) |
"This thing is virtually unwatchable." |
Paul Matwychuk |
Splat |
Cherish (2002) |
"The mystery here is not the identity of the shadowy man who got Zoe into this mess, but which movie Taylor intended to emerge from Cherish's cinematic muddle." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Chicago (2002) |
"Where Moulin Rouge was all cinema trickery and no guts, Rob Marshall has found a perfect balance of the two. Chicago is absolutely visceral." |
Josef Braun |
Tomato 5/5 |
Children of Heaven (1997) |
"Iranian social realism with runaway charm" |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Chinatown (1974) |
"classic noir" |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Christmas in August (1998) |
"Unfortunately, the film's cloying score trickles through scenes like sap . . . works best when circling quietly around its characters and attuned to the dying strains of faded romance." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures |
"A road movie about the end of the road, about paths diverging, when travellers' time together can only be brief." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
City by the Sea (2002) |
"For me, acting rarely makes or breaks a movie, but there’s so much heart invested in the characters at the centre of this film that I found myself captivated, for just a while, by the troubles of those people up on the screen." |
Josef Braun |
Tomato |
City of Men - The Complete Series (2006) |
"[Some] startlingly innovative and experimental television. It's obvious from City of Men that there are far more stories to be found in the poor places where most people live." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
CJ7 (2008) |
"Always intriguing but not always fully involving, CJ7 still features, as with its resurrecting dog, Chow's enlivening touch. Even when his film isn't completely absorbing, it seems he never met a dying genre cliché he can't reanimate." |
Brian Gibson |
- |
The Class (2008) |
"SideVue: The Factories of Life. Considers cinematic social-realism and the past ten years of social-realist filmmaking in light of Cantet's film." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Clerks (1994) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Close to Home (2007) |
"A haunting autopsy of how the personal can obliterate the political, as the oppressors rationalize, repress and then casually repeat the day-to-day injustices they're paid to commit for a society eager to forget its sins." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Closer (2004) |
"To quote the haunting Damien Rice song that bookends the film, you can’t take your eyes off of it." |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato |
Cold Mountain (2003) |
"Minghella crafts enough resonant, lyrical images to make the engrossing Cold Mountain a finely polished, emotionally harrowing epic." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) |
"The evil twin of A Beautiful Mind: take out the false life-affirming tone and moral clarity from Howard's movie, add some nasty humour and you get box-office poison." |
Josef Braun |
Tomato 4/5 |
Cool Hand Luke (1967) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
- |
Coraline (2009) |
"SideVue: Gaiman, Set, Match. Considers the adaptation of graphic novels and limited comic-book series in light of the film adaptation of Gaiman's Coraline." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Couples Retreat (2009) |
"The vapid couples become sniping or sarcastic chunks of white blandness even sharks would spit back up. A kind of bad video-game romance-comedy: 2D characters, flat dialogue, an exotic backdrop, and lame new levels of relationship challenges." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Crazy Love (2007) |
"The film never shows anyone being deeper, as if the surface patter of their '50s world is really all they are. . . . it's best to just leave this odd couple to the distant past of Geraldo and other talk show appearances." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Crime Novel (2005) |
"It's hard to get much juice when it's all quick slice-and-dice in the first half-hour. . . . the moral slipperiness between criminal and politician, thug and cop, just doesn't ooze out here beyond all the blood." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
CSA: The Confederate States of America (2006) |
"Its attack on American racist capitalism is provocative, disturbing and powerful satire . . . shows us through fiction what Katrina has already revealed in fact." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Cure (2001) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) |
"This is epic, super-duper-sized . . . a hollow but lovely looking spectacle." |
Brian Gibson |