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Geoff Chapman Toronto Star Oct 30, 2026 3/5 It's when the plot in its later stages, stripped of the slick cinematic veneers of movie cleverness, that the effect of this appealing mythic tale is most impressive. Go to Full Review William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) 79% 77%

Geoff Pevere Toronto Star Oct 26, 2026 5/5 If it is sex that defines power, what happens when things go, as they always eventually do, limp? Needless to say, it's the stuff of farce, and Eyes Wide Shut is nothing if not mercilessly (if occasionally mirthlessly) comic. Go to Full Review Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 79% 74%

Ron Base Toronto Star Oct 20, 2026 The anticipation once more ends in disappointment. This is the Kubrick movie about Viet Nam in which Kubrick, in his wisdom, discovers he has nothing to say about Viet Nam. Or at least nothing to say that has not already been said. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Clyde Gilmour Toronto Star Oct 19, 2026 Stanley Kubrick's long-awaited horror saga has some brilliant things in it, as you might expect from him. But it defiantly refuses to make sense, and on the whole it's a major disappointment. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 74% 90%

Clyde Gilmour Toronto Star Oct 18, 2026 A Clockwork Orange, though destined to be hotly controversial, seems to me a formidable new achievement by the gifted, audacious artist who earlier gave us 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove and Paths of Glory. Go to Full Review A Clockwork Orange (1971) 83% 93%

David Cobb Toronto Star Oct 16, 2026 Stanley Kubrick's new movie is as pithy and to the point as its title is overweight. Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

Wendy Michener Toronto Star Oct 16, 2026 Lolita is an uncommonly fine piece of filmmaking. It's also the kind of picture that will be different for each person who sees it. The signposts are all there, but, like traffic signals, you have to know how to read them. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 82% 84%

Peter Howell Toronto Star Oct 14, 2026 4/4 The motive for Holmes’s apparent candour is the main “why” question of the film, one that will ultimately leave many viewers wondering, in a good way, if their popcorn has been doused with LSD rather than butter. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Gerald Pratley Toronto Star Oct 14, 2026 More than other movies dealing with the struggle for survival in the Roman empire, Spartacus treats human life with respect and mankind with dignity. It avoids unnecessary violence and shuns sadism for its own sake. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 89% 87%

Jack Karr Toronto Star Oct 13, 2026 In its modest way, a little melodrama called The Killing hits the target with a lot louder thump than many of the bigger glossier members of the tribe do with their fancier resources. Go to Full Review The Killing (1956) 96% 92%

Toronto Star Staff Toronto Star Oct 8, 2026 2/5 This time the gore is mostly offscreen. Which makes you wonder why the even bothered. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) 21% 37%

Rob Salem Toronto Star Oct 7, 2026 2/5 Street Fighter the movie is big, dumb, loud and violent, very much like a videogame brought to life. Or would be, were it not completely lifeless. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (1994) 20% 20%

Peter Howell Toronto Star Oct 3, 2026 At times the film can be unruly and overripe, but Calvo and Ambrossi bring a rich, theatrical sweep to their reclamation of a queer Spanish history long forced into silence. Go to Full Review La Bola Negra (2026) 87% - -

Peter Howell Toronto Star Oct 2, 2026 Through raw testimony from Israeli military personnel, NAZA is heartbreaking but essential viewing, questioning the systems that cause and quantify civilian death in modern warfare. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Peter Howell Toronto Star Oct 2, 2026 Cruise has played arrogant bastards before, but this is one of his better turns, right up there with those in Tropic Thunder and Magnolia. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Joel Rubinoff Toronto Star Oct 2, 2026 Despite all the strained -- and sometimes unintentional -- hilarity, and despite Jason's usual prowess with a hatchet, the movie is neither particularly funny or nor particularly frightening. It is, however, particularly boring. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 39% 53%

Ron Base Toronto Star Oct 2, 2026 The movie is not one wit different from the other three chapters and thus is robbed of even small surprises, let alone big scares. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) 20% 51%

Ron Base Toronto Star Sep 30, 2026 Because the market demands for increased murder, the new Friday the 13th is more bloodbath than it is movie. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) 28% 48%

Vit Wagner Toronto Star Sep 28, 2026 There's plenty to laugh at. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 8% 27%

Peter Howell Toronto Star Sep 24, 2026 2.5/4 Heart of the Beast doesn’t dig deeply into character motivation and the plot by feature screenplay rookie Cameron Alexander is as obvious as a red line drawn across a map. But the story is clever in its own way. Go to Full Review Heart of the Beast (2026) 84% - -