The Drama provided the best in-cinema experience Carsten's had in months, and the funniest, most painful comedy since last year’s deeply awkward Friendship. His review:
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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews The Drama, with Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, and Alana Haim. Secrets, lies, and cringe delights:
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Project Hail Mary is so goofily crowd-pleasing and comedic, with a full-on jaunty-for-the-jaunt choral score, that it’s borderline annoying, says Carsten. But it gets better and more sure-footed as it goes along:
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Carsten Knox reviews A Magnificent Life, based on the memoirs of Marcel Pagnol. Animated biography disappointingly lifeless in English:
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Marty Supreme, with Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Tyler "The Creator" Okonma. Chalamet's table tennis epic:
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The advance buzz for this one has been almost universally positive, says Carsten. And the buzz is legit — there’s a lot to enjoy about Project Hail Mary, starting with its look:
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Carsten Knox reviews Undertone, with Nina Kiri. Hearing isn't believing:
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Still playing in Halifax cinemas: Crime 101, with Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and Halle Berry. Carsten called it an exceptional, slickly made thriller:
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A Magnificent Life in English doesn’t feel especially, authentically French — here we have a gorgeous-looking animation for adults, but the English dub makes the entire project feel unpleasantly false. Carsten's review:
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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews A Magnificent Life, based on the memoirs of Marcel Pagnol. Animated biography disappointingly lifeless in English:
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Carsten Knox reviews Project Hail Mary, with Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, and James Ortiz. Super-cute space hokum:
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Carsten says what’s especially impressive about Project Hail Mary is the third act, which delivers plots twists you won’t see coming and a lot of genuine emotion, the score settling in to better match the action:
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Project Hail Mary is so goofily crowd-pleasing and comedic, with a full-on jaunty-for-the-jaunt choral score, that it’s borderline annoying, says Carsten. But it gets better and more sure-footed as it goes along:
buff.ly/29bz6MN
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The advance buzz for this one has been almost universally positive, says Carsten. And the buzz is legit — there’s a lot to enjoy about Project Hail Mary, starting with its look:
buff.ly/29bz6MN
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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews Project Hail Mary, with Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, and James Ortiz. Super-cute space hokum:
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Carsten wished "Wuthering Heights" was more transgressive, but there’s still a lot to appreciate in what the actors bring. It’s Jacob Elordi who is the MVP — he’s got a deadly, looming presence:
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Undertone is a horror that trades on the sound of things that go bump in the night with a lot of ambition, says Carsten, especially impressive given the shoestring budget this must have been made on:
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Still playing in Halifax cinemas: Send Help, with Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien. A showcase for McAdams' extraordinary gifts:
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Undertone's filmmakers do their best to ratchet up the claustrophobia with deep shadows, odd noises and flickering lights, but its single location never escapes the feeling of being a stage, a set:
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Throwing so many ideas against the wall, some of them stick, some don’t, but a lack of focus has The Bride! collapse in the homestretch, Carsten says. The opening act is a whole lot of fun, though:
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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews Undertone, with Nina Kiri. Hearing isn't believing:
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Carsten Knox reviews The President's Cake, with Baneen Ahmad Nayyef and Sajad Mohamad Qasem. Dessert life:
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What a pleasure to watch a masterfully crafted thriller, says Carsten, one that feels like the product of another era when these kinds of movies appeared regularly at the multiplex. His review of Crime 101:
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A raucous, semi-inspired reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Bride! is a deeply feminist vision, says Carsten, coming from actor-turned-filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal:
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Still playing in Halifax cinemas: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, with Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol. Toronto + time:
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Despite the delicious presence of Margaret Qualley as a full-on femme fatale, How To Make A Killing can’t find a manageable tone with both hands, says Carsten. His review:
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The President's Cake offers a look into the lives of ordinary Iraqis who thrive even during hard times, with a story Carsten calls sad, comedic, rich with detail, and even, fleetingly, heartwarming:
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Carsten Knox reviews The Bride! with Jesse Buckley, Christian Bale, and Annette Bening. An ode to disobedient geometry:
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Carsten Knox reviews "Wuthering Heights", with Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, and Hong Chau. My one dream, my only master:
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