James Adams

James Adams Globe and Mail Jul 14, 2017 4/4 A masterpiece. Go to Full Review The Death of Louis XIV (2016) 87% 58%

James Adams Globe and Mail Aug 26, 2016 3.5/4 Don't Blink is a friendly film by a friend - honest and historically aware, but almost unfailingly affectionate and attuned to the "spontaneous intuition" that, 92 years after his birth, still seems the governing principle of Frank's life. Go to Full Review Don't Blink -- Robert Frank (2015) 84% 71%

James Adams Globe and Mail Apr 15, 2016 2/4 Miles Ahead? Miles behind is more like it. Go to Full Review Miles Ahead (2016) 74% 57%

James Adams Globe and Mail Mar 4, 2016 3.5/4 There's a lot of heart here. Go to Full Review Mountains May Depart (2015) 89% 69%

James Adams Globe and Mail Nov 20, 2015 3/4 The film ranges far, wide and deep in its exploration of this distinctively 21st-century form of "dehumanized" combat. Go to Full Review Drone (2014) 94% 61%

James Adams Globe and Mail Nov 20, 2015 3/4 Fans of the novel, of which I'm one, may find the film sweeter and more romantic than Toibin's original conception. Go to Full Review Brooklyn (2015) 97% 87%

James Adams Globe and Mail Oct 30, 2015 3.5/4 The wide swerve of Anderson's associations, their "hypnotic splattered mist," don't make for an easy film. But it is a very good one and only the hardest heart will leave the theatre unmoved. Go to Full Review Heart of a Dog (2015) 95% 64%

James Adams Globe and Mail Oct 9, 2015 3/4 [A] narcotized fever dream ... Go to Full Review The Forbidden Room (2015) 96% 50%

James Adams Globe and Mail May 22, 2015 3/4 It's downright playful, in fact, funky chic and cheeky. Somewhere, Banksy is smiling. Go to Full Review Banksy Does New York (2014) 100% 75%

James Adams Globe and Mail Dec 24, 2014 2/4 Burton lets his film putter along in middle gear, provoking neither riotous laughter nor emotional immersion. Go to Full Review Big Eyes (2014) 72% 68%

James Adams Globe and Mail Oct 21, 2014 3.5/4 It's heartening to know there are filmmakers with a longer view untethered to the frantic rhythms of the news cycle. Go to Full Review The Great Invisible (2014) 94% 73%

James Adams Globe and Mail Jul 11, 2014 3/4 With a large cast of wise guys, reporters, ex-cops, victims and lawyers, lawyers, lawyers, it's like five seasons of The Wire distilled into one epic episode. Go to Full Review Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014) 83% 70%

James Adams Globe and Mail Feb 21, 2014 3/4 Mostly it is fascinating and compelling. Go to Full Review Tim's Vermeer (2013) 91% 86%

James Adams Globe and Mail Dec 20, 2013 3/4 You don't end up rooting for Llewyn Davis because there's not much to root for. And this imparts a weird sort of impersonality or cold-bloodedness to the film's core. Go to Full Review Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 92% 74%

James Adams Globe and Mail Dec 16, 2013 2.5/4 The Hunt's inexorability feels derived more from thematic or ideological concerns than any organic necessity. Go to Full Review The Hunt (2012) 92% 93%

James Adams Globe and Mail Dec 16, 2013 3.5/4 Bizarre, hypnotic, audacious. Go to Full Review The Act of Killing (2012) 96% 85%

James Adams Globe and Mail Nov 22, 2013 2/4 Thing is, the work the viewer sees in Looking is the Original Sin, isn't terribly prepossessing. Go to Full Review Looking Is the Original Sin (2012) - - - -

James Adams Globe and Mail Nov 15, 2013 2/4 As a manifesto for tolerance and a contribution to greater social and gender harmony, this is an exercise all to the good. As a film, however, it's something of a snooze. Go to Full Review Geography Club (2013) 67% 53%

James Adams Globe and Mail Nov 1, 2013 2.5/4 As an act of witness, Hi-Ho Mistahey! is admirable; as cinema, not so much. Go to Full Review Hi-Ho Mistahey! (2013) - - - -

James Adams Globe and Mail Oct 18, 2013 3.5/4 Epic and intimate, A Touch of Sin finally feels as big and complex, as contradictory and sad as, well, China. Go to Full Review A Touch of Sin (2013) 95% 74%