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American Pie: Girls’ Rules (2020)

October 6, 2020 Matthew Parkinson 1 Comment American Pie, American Pie Presents, American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules, American Pie: Girls' Rules, Barry Bostwick, Blayne Weaver, Camaron Engels, Christian Valderrama, Clint Howard, Danny Trejo, Darren Barnet, David H. Steinberg, Ed Quinn, Girls' Rules, Jeannie Elise Mai, Lily Bleu Andrew, Lizze Broadway, Lucas Adams, Madison Pettis, Natasha Behnam, Piper Curda, Rasheda Crockett, Review, Robert Peters, Sara Rue, Stephanie Wong, Zachary Gordon, Zayne Emory min read

American Pie: Girls’ Rules is a bad and cynical attempt to gender-swap the first American Pie.

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Another Round (CIFF 2020)

October 3, 2020October 6, 2020 Matthew Parkinson 0 Comments Another Round, Druk, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Lars Ranthe, Mads Mikkelsen, Magnus Millang, Maria Bonnevie, Review, Susse Wold, Thomas Bo Larsen, Thomas Vinterberg min read

Another Round is a predictable but worthwhile midlife crisis movie.

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The Reckoning (CIFF 2020)

October 2, 2020October 6, 2020 Matthew Parkinson 0 Comments Bill Fellows, Cal MacAninch, Charlotte Kirk, Edward Evers-Swindell, Emma Campbell-Jones, Emma Holzer, Ian Whyte, Joe Anderson, Jordan Long, Leon Ockenden, Mark Ryan, Neil Marshall, Oliver Trevena, Review, Rick Warden, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington, The Reckoning min read

If you like period horror pieces, The Reckoning might satisfy, but temper expectations.

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Falling (CIFF 2020)

September 30, 2020October 3, 2020 Matthew Parkinson 0 Comments Bracken Burns, David Cronenberg, Hannah Gross, Lance Henriksen, Laura Linney, Piers Bijvoet, Sverrir Gudnason, Terry Chen, Viggo Mortensen min read

Falling succeeds because of its tremendous performances. They’re so good you’ll easily ignore its minor faults.

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My Salinger Year (CIFF 2020)

September 30, 2020 Matthew Parkinson 0 Comments Brían F. O'Byrne, Colm Feore, Douglas Booth, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Margaret Qualley, My Salinger Year, Philippe Falardeau, Review, Seána Kerslake, Sigourney Weaver min read

My Salinger Year might not be a story worth telling. Go watch The Devil Wears Prada again instead of this.

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Black Bear (CIFF 2020)

September 28, 2020 Matthew Parkinson 0 Comments Alexander Koch, Aubrey Plaza, Black Bear, Christopher Abbott, Grantham Coleman, Jennifer Kim, Lawrence Michael Levine, Lindsay Burdge, Paola Lázaro, Review, Sarah Gadon, Shannon O'Neill min read

Black Bear is a darkly funny experimental puzzle of a movie and it’s a wonderful thing to experience.

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Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game (CIFF 2020)

September 24, 2020 Matthew Parkinson 0 Comments Andrew Phung, Benjamin Arthurs, Blaise Doucette, Catherine Gell, CJ Collard, Declan O'Reilly, Events Transpiring Before During and After a High School Basketball Game, Isaiah McKirgan, Isra Abdelrahim, Ivy Miller, Jay Morberg, Kal Rivera, Kim Faires, Kingley Moore, Madi Vermeulen, Paul Cowling, Reamonn Joshee, Review, Robin Paul Murray, Ross Moser, Sherri Dahl, Ted Stenson, Theo Morgan, Thomas Michael Receveur min read

Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game is too thin to work as a standalone movie.

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I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

September 5, 2020September 5, 2020 Matthew Parkinson 0 Comments Abby Quinn, Charlie Kaufman, David Thewlis, Gus Birney, Guy Boyd, Hadley Robinson, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Netflix, Oliver Platt, Review, Toni Collette min read

I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a Road Trip Movie like none other.

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Rogue (2020)

August 28, 2020August 29, 2020 Matthew Parkinson 0 Comments Adam Deacon, Brandon Auret, Calli Taylor, Greg Kriek, Isabel Bassett, Jessica Sutton, Kenneth Fok, Lee-Anne Liebenberg, M.J. Bassett, Megan Fox, Philip Winchester, Review, Rogue, Sisanda Henna, Tamer Burjaq min read

Unless you have an affinity for bad-CGI lions, Rogue isn’t worth your time. Its only hope was to be a so-bad-it’s-good movie and it couldn’t manage that.

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Tenet (2020)

August 27, 2020 Matthew Parkinson 0 Comments Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Andrew Howard, Christopher Nolan, Clémence Poésy, Dimple Kapadia, Elizabeth Debicki, Fiona Dourif, Himesh Patel, John David Washington, Kenneth Branagh, Martin Donovan, Michael Caine, Review, Robert Pattinson, Tenet, Wes Chatham min read

Tenet has some thrills and is enjoyable in the moment, but its lack of payoff means it struggles to have a positive lasting impression.

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