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Liam Lacey

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Muppet Treasure Island (1996) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “Mostly, the rewards belong to the area of dutiful satisfaction, like sorting out your sock drawer: You have taken your children to an ethically benign entertainment; one that embraces monsters of all shades and textures of fur.” – Globe and Mail Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Finch & Midland (2025) B+ EDIT “Vivid individual performances and fluid direction make this anthology of stories a memorable debut, though one feels left hanging at the film’s conclusion.” – Original Cin Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 100% B+ EDIT “Like Lone Scherfig’s An Education, Pillion rides the line between a rueful English coming-of-age story and a sentimental black comedy.” – Original Cin Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Soul's Road (2025) B- EDIT “Country musician Dallas Smith stars as a fallen former hometown hero trying to make amends in an over-familiar story, bolstered by an all-Canadian alt-country soundtrack.” – Original Cin Feb 6, 2026 Full Review All That's Left of You (2025) 100% B+ EDIT “A multi-generation Palestinian epic can seem over-explanatory but is redeemed by the morally thorny last act.A multi-generation Palestinian epic can seem over-explanatory but is redeemed by the morally thorny last act.” – Original Cin Jan 30, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% A- EDIT “Audacious and eccentric, Mona Fastvold’s musical biography of Shaker leader Ann Lee is undoubtedly impressive though it could benefit from being more about the person rather than the legend.” – Original Cin Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Yunan (2025) B+ EDIT “Downbeat drama about an Arab writer in exile seeking to end his life on a remote island is raised above the conventional by charismatic German star, Hanna Schygulla, and the cinematography of Ronald Plante. ” – Original Cin Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Sound of Falling (2025) 93% A EDIT “Schilinski’s film is a bravura example of the unapologetically enigmatic, visionary art film, in a gothic collage of young women’s repressed experiences set against the background of Germany’s brutal 20th century history.” – Original Cin Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Rosemead (2025) 89% B EDIT “Though it features an intense lead performance from Lucy Liu, this dramatization of a real-life tragedy in a Los Angeles Asian American community offers neither remedy nor catharsis.” – Original Cin Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% A EDIT “Intentionally emotionally distressing and ethically complicated, director Kaouther Ben Hania’s powerful hybrid documentary-drama places us in the position of aid workers struggling to save a five-year-old Palestinian child in her last hours of life.” – Original Cin Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Clairtone (2025) B- EDIT “Ron Mann’s sometimes playful pop culture story of the 1960s Canadian-made stereo console is constrained by a single perspective and weighed down by a complicated political business story.” – Original Cin Dec 20, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% A EDIT “Laura Poitras’s compelling and personally revealing film takes us into the world of legendary investigative journalist, Seymour Hirsch, who has exposed state crimes for more than half a century.  ” – Original Cin Dec 13, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% A EDIT “Kleber Mendonça Filho’s 70s-set Brazilian thriller, starring Wagner Moura, sets the high bar for visual panache and a digressive plot that combines political insight and absurdity.” – Original Cin Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) 98% A EDIT “The film about photographer Fatma Hassona, killed in Gaza a week after a film about her was accepted at the Cannes film festival, is a dark, unique document that sits somewhere between hope and bitter grief.” – Original Cin Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Stitch Head (2025) 69% B EDIT “A kids’ movie timed for Halloween, Stitch Head blends humorously grotesque visuals and reasonably clever writing for a familiar therapeutic message about facing fears and learning self-acceptance. ” – Original Cin Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% A- EDIT “Richard Linklater’s affectionate, meticulously constructed film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 debut Breathless, is shaped like a caper film, with the eccentric director out to steal the crown of art cinema. ” – Original Cin Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 91% B EDIT “Ethan Hawke’s all-in performance as the diminutive, gay, alcoholic lyricist Lorenz Hart is at the centre of this stagey drama, salvaged by Andrew Scott’s brief turn as the composer, Richard Rodgers.” – Original Cin Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Who Killed the Montreal Expos? (2025) 100% B+ EDIT “A snappily paced, documentary revives the hurt of the Expos demise in 2004, and reminds us of the dysfunctional relationship between Major League Baseball owners and hometown fans. ” – Original Cin Oct 21, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “If you have some spare time over the holiday and are interested in a significant part of Hollywood's hidden history, the film is definitely worth renting. ” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% EDIT “Pee-Wee's Big Adventure may be the freshest comedy since Spinal Tap.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Dirty Work (1998) 21% 2/4 EDIT “The movie ends with a yawn and a shrug.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 2/4 EDIT “Too ponderous for a confection, too sticky and puffed up to be anything else, Casper reminds you of nothing so much as the kind of problem Alka-Seltzer was invented to relieve.” – Globe and Mail Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Bone Lake (2024) 84% B- EDIT “Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan has some fun in a shell game of the three movie genres that depend on physical reaction —comedy, erotic thriller and horror — finally settling for an ending where things get red and splashy.” – Original Cin Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Bau: Artist at War (2024) C- EDIT “In its aim to serve as inspirational entertainment, the story of artist and Holocaust survivor Joseph Bau plays like an unintentional parody of the ethically and aesthetically entangled genre.” – Original Cin Sep 26, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% A- EDIT “A period romance starring two of today’s the most intriguing actors, Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, A History of Sound is a kind of stealth musical, in which a pair of young musicologists use traditional ballads and music to express beauty and pain.” – Original Cin Sep 18, 2025 Full Review
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