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Review: Civil War
Alex Garland’s Civil War leaves a lasting impact [read more]
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Film Review: A Simple Favor
A Simple Favor is the new thriller starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick. They play two very different women who strike up an unlikely friendship after their young sons, who attend school together, insist on [read more]
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Montreal Fringe Festival Reviews # 6: Lucky
Excellent acting in this psychological thriller. [read more]
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Bad Samaritan Disappoints
David Tennant’s role is this new thriller’s only redeeming factor. [read more]
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Unsane: Well-Executed Creepiness
The new Steven Soderbergh film about a woman with a stalker was shot entirely on an iPhone. [read more]
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Death Wish: Thrilling, Intense, and Sometimes Campy
Bruce Willis stars in the Eli Roth reimagining of Death Wish, the story of a doctor getting revenge for his family. [read more]
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Split: Shyamalan’s Signature Thriller
Dissociative identity disorder and kidnapping take centre stage in this new horror movie. [read more]
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John Wick Chapter 2: Man on a Mission
The second instalment of this series is just as action-packed as the last. [read more]
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Review: Into The Forest
Director Patricia Rozema is forever challenging Canadian cinema. [read more]
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Sicario: Does the End Justify the Means?
Denis Villeneuve’s new narco-thriller is a dark exploration of the drug war [read more]
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The Gift Review: It’s Better to Give Than to Receive
A childhood bully and his victim meet in adulthood in this thriller. [read more]
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European Cinema: Claude Lelouch’s Roman de Gare
Directed by the brilliant Claude Lelouch, Roman de Gare is a story of mixed identities and skillful dishonesty, an intricate web spun around mystery and lies. [read more]
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Fantasia Reveals Its Diverse International Line Up
We pick five films we know you want to see this year at Fantasia. [read more]
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The Imitation Game: The Price of Being Different
War films are made a dime a dozen, because the two world wars have dominated a large part of the cultural discourse of the Western world for the past hundred years. But The Imitation Game [read more]
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Creepy Media with Thriller Nightcrawler
Unintentionally a commentary on the news media, Nightcrawler is every inch a thriller. [read more]
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Into Thin Air: Review of Gone Girl
Ban Affleck thriller looks at the struggles of marriage on the rocks. [read more]
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Review of The Captive : Thriller in Pieces
Egoyan’s latest inspired by headlines but misses out on opportunities to create realism. [read more]
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Review: McAvoy is Flawless in Filth
Thriller features McAvoy as a Scottish drug-addicted and alcoholic detective who stops at nothing. [read more]
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Fantasia Closes The Festival With Psychological Thriller Killers
The Mo brothers brings us their latest thrill ride full of blood, gore and humor. [read more]
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Fantasia: Elijah Wood Double Clicks on Open Windows
A new era of hand-held camera screens uses web cam and computer screens as the source for this thrill ride. [read more]