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Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio 5 days ago Nathan does what he does best, making this story a playground so he can boobytrap reality with artifice. It's thrilling, dizzying and leaves you with an overwhelming feeling of distrust that resonates with the mood and anxiety of the moment we're all in. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Rachel Ho CBC Radio Oct 10, 2026 Menard does an incredible job showing us how extraordinary Terry Fox was in his persistence and selflessness, but also how ordinary he was too Go to Full Review Run Terry Run (2026) 92% - -

Jason Gorber CBC Radio Jul 24, 2026 B+ "It is brisk, it is not pedestrian...Go see it with an audience and support Canadian independent cinema!" Go to Full Review Racewalkers (2025) 100% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio May 22, 2026 Schoenbrun’s meta, queer and horny answer to misogynistic genre fare like Friday the 13th, which Teenage Sex and Death reclaims as sexually empowering. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio May 22, 2026 Zvyagintsev sets the thorny and homicidal marriage drama against Russia’s war on Ukraine, turning it into a portrait about abuses of power, with a cynical punchline that hits hard. Go to Full Review Minotaur (2026) 98% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio May 22, 2026 Gray reworks some of the pieces from his last foray in this genre, We Own The Night, and exceeds himself with this warm-blooded and operatic family melodrama, packed with the kind of performances you expect in a Cassavetes film. Go to Full Review Paper Tiger (2026) 86% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio May 18, 2026 Using animation to capture the emotional experience when the world around you falls apart, Tangles turned me to mush. It also reminded me that there's a Sarah McLachlan for every kind of mush you're going through. Go to Full Review Tangles (2026) 95% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio May 2, 2026 The Devil Wears Prada 2 can’t live up to the glory or the glamour of the original. But that's exactly its point. And it makes it beautifully. Go to Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Apr 25, 2026 There's a satisfying narrative in here for fans who wish to compartmentalize their feelings about Michael Jackson's complicated legacy, somewhere in the lousy, cliched storytelling, which, to be fair, is no worse than Bohemian Rhapsody. Go to Full Review Michael (2025) 38% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Mar 21, 2026 It’s very Ted Lasso in space, a funny and heartwarming crowdpleaser about sad men making friends, which on the flip side is lacking tension, antagonism and conflict. Go to Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Mar 8, 2026 Hoppers wants to get to this hopeful, less hostile place, where two opposing sides (a beatnik activist and a smarmy politician) can co-exist, in a way that risks being a cop out. But it works. And it stays joyful through and through. Go to Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Feb 1, 2026 You're watching creative kismet. Raimi gets the most out of McAdams' performance. He knows how to frame her and how to make her feel fabulous while splashing buckets of blood at her. The two of them take this so far. Go to Full Review Send Help (2026) 92% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Jan 21, 2026 One of the best and most daring films I got to see over the past year. Go to Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 85% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Dec 20, 2025 Without some spectacular new vision or technological innovation, you’re left to really grapple with how stilted the drama can be and those nagging, troubling tropes borne from Avatar's white saviour narrative. Go to Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Dec 2, 2025 You'd expect a Knives Out movie to be snarky about religion, but Wake Up Dead Man is surprisingly curious and gracious when asking what it means to hold on to your beliefs (and humanity), while so many extremely online are trying to impose theirs. Go to Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Sep 27, 2025 You’re getting the best of both PTAs. One Battle After Another has all the filmmaking mastery of Paul Thomas Anderson's late-career style but is as accessible and entertaining as his earlier work, more so really. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Jason Gorber CBC Radio Sep 27, 2025 A The more you take seriously the politics of the film the more it falls apart, but that takes nothing away from the caliber of this exceptional film. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Sep 23, 2025 The filmmakers are not equipped to handle the conversation about concussions and race in the NFL but that didn't stop them from using that topicality to make this genre exercise (with marketing aesthetics) saleable. Go to Full Review HIM (2025) 30% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Sep 13, 2025 A bit too whispery and in love with its atmosphere, but Jesse Buckley’s heartwrenching performance during the heavy moments had a chorus of sobs ringing out in the theatre I saw it in (and had my pretty teary-eyed too). Go to Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% - -

Radheyan Simonpillai CBC Radio Sep 13, 2025 Undoubtedly one of the year's best, It Was Just An Accident is yet another moving, prickly and hopeful morality tale from Panahi about people (and a society) trying to find a way forward while processing the trauma of the past. Go to Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% - -