‘Emilia Pérez’: Your Oscar-Contending Drug-Cartel Sex-Change Musical
French filmmaker Jacques Audiard swings for the fences
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Author: Stephen Garrett
‘Venom’ Dances Into the Sunset
A marginal comic-book franchise that took itself a lot less seriously with every outing
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‘Smile 2’: Shinier, Spookier, Sadder
Director Parker Finn has a real horror franchise on his hands
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‘Saturday Night’: A Star is Lorne
Jason Reitman pays historical reverence to an irreverent sketch-comedy institution
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The ‘Joker’ Is On You
The disastrous ‘Folie A Deux’ subverts all audience expectations, and all expectations of what an entertaining film should be
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These ‘Wolfs’ Don’t Bite
George Clooney and Brad Pitt are rival fixers on a wearisome wild goose chase
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‘The Substance’ Is The Ultimate Pulpy Body-Horror Nightmare
Long live the new flesh
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‘The Life Of Chuck,’ Sappy Stephen King Adaptation, Wins TIFF’s Grand Prize
But we had other favorites from a crowd-pleasing festival
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Sex Sells at This Year’s TIFF
Rawdogging it in Toronto with Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman, and Pamela Anderson
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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’: The Ghost With The-Not-So-Much
36 years later, a sequel has twice the plot and about half the originality
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Blow Canada
The MCU goes gonzo-porn in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
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The Cute Stuff
‘Fly Me To The Moon’ is more ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ than ‘Apollo 13’
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A Star Is Porn
‘MaXXXine’ is a bucketful of 1980s sleaze
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Kind of Cruel
‘Poor Things’ director Yorgos Lanthimos is back to messing with his audience in three stories about very desperate people
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