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Nov 22, 2024 | 
nextmag.ca | Gabrielle Marceau
WickedWhat: Movie, 161 mins. When: Fri., Nov. 22Where: : In theatresRating: NNN (out of 5)Why you should watch: Solid performances in a film that takes no chances and ultimately under-delivers. AFTER A SEEMINGLY endless promotional cycle, John M. Chu’s big-screen adaptation of the beloved musical Wicked has finally materialized, and just like witches in the Land of Oz, there’s some good and some bad.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
intermissionmagazine.ca | Gabrielle Marceau
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iPhoto caption: Photo by Mathieu Taillardas.
Writer Sébastien Bertrand is no stranger to creative acts of historical imagination.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
nextmag.ca | Gabrielle Marceau |Michael Hollett
What to watch this November: NEXT Screens Guide ‘Wicked’, ‘Dune: Prophecy’, and free movies at the library From the big screen adaptation of ‘Wicked’ to ‘Dune: Prophecy’ on streaming, here’s NEXT’s guide for what to watch this November. Wicked What: Movie. When: Fri., Nov.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
nextmag.ca | Gabrielle Marceau
Where: In theatresWhat: Movie, 104 minutes. When: Fri., Nov. 1Genre: DramaRating: NN (out of 5)Why you should watch: Director Robert Zemeckis’s use of CGI to” Benjamin Button” his stars, make them younger, is pretty cool in an otherwise dull film. ROBERT ZEMECKIS IS notable as a director for, among many things, his use of new technologies that change how bodies appear on screen.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
intermissionmagazine.ca | Gabrielle Marceau
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iPhoto caption: Samca production still by Barry McCluskey.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
nextmag.ca | Gabrielle Marceau
What: Movie, 138 mins. When: Fri., Sept. 27Where: In theatresGenre: DramaRating: NNN (out of 5)Why you should go: Francis Ford Coppola’s troubled epic, Megalopolis, was infamous long before its premiere at Cannes this spring. After decades of development, funding challenges (Coppola consolidated some of his wineries to foot the production bill), controversial or simply questionable casting choices, and dispatches from confused critics, Megalopolis has finally arrived on our screens.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
nextmag.ca | Gabrielle Marceau
The Wild RobotWhat: Movie, 102 mins. When: Fri., Sept. 27Where: In theatresGenre: FamilyRating: NNNN (out of 5)Why you should go: In the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, images of wild animals walking around city streets made the rounds online. They were surreal and also hopeful, suggesting that despite all that humans have built, the natural world can always reclaim it.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
thefilmstage.com | Gabrielle Marceau
Wei Shujun’s detective noir Only the River Flows (based on a story of the same name by Chinese author Yu Hua) is set in a small town along a river in China’s Jiangdong province where it seems the sun never shines. The atmosphere is unrelentingly melancholy: the town’s infrastructure is crumbling, the police have turned the local cinema into their headquarters (no one sees films there anymore), Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” plays frequently, and––yes––there is a murder.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
nextmag.ca | Gabrielle Marceau
Where: In theatresWhat: Movie, 122 minutes. When: Fri., July 19Genre: ActionRating: NNN (out of 5)Why you should watch: The beloved 1996 disaster film gets an update in this entertaining, if not exactly memorable, summer blockbuster.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
nextmag.ca | Gabrielle Marceau
Where: In theatresWhat: Movie, 98 minutes. When: Wed., July 3Genre: FamilyRating: NNNN (out of 5)Why you should watch: Cinema-goers’ favourite creatures are back in the efficiently entertaining fourth instalment of the Despicable Me franchise. IT’S UNCLEAR if the people at Illumination Entertainment — the animation studio behind the Despicable Me and Minions franchise — knew what a phenomenon they had on their hands with the first Despicable Me (2010).
