MOVIES: Dune part 2 directed by Denis Villeneuve has the look and feel of a classic epic There's also a massive trek on the Trans Canada Trail, a complaining narcissist and changes in how we work By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | February 29th 2024
MOVIES: A couple of surprise gems in another batch of Oscar hopefuls Also a couple of Canadian films, a Buddhist satire on America and Ethan Coen gone solo and low-rent By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | February 23rd 2024
Perfect Days is smart and literate, poignant and deeply engrossing It's one of three top-tier non-English, subtitled, films this week. One is Oscar nominated. By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | February 8th 2024
MOVIES: All but one of the new arrivals this week are about women or girls And the lone other is from a book by a woman By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | February 1st 2024
MOVIES: Think caste system, not racism, says a novel documentary. One of three this week, all groundbreakers One recalls a bookburning, one helps with homelessness and then there's Snoop Dogg stops in with some raunchy football fun By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | January 26th 2024
MOVIES: New award-calibre films arrive as we wait for the Oscars There's also realism about schools, gentrification, memory and racism. By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | January 18th 2024
MOVIES: Mean Girls, a favorite remade, but not as good, plus five others new in town They deliver action, mountain culture, Freud in imaginary conversation and a poet on race By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | January 12th 2024
MOVIES: They've come in twos: award candidates, dystopian visions, and gay love stories And two are Paul Mescal films. Not this one: it's American Fiction By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | January 4th 2024
Movies: picks for best of the year Poor Things and Ferrari are the recent arrivals. By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | December 29th 2023
Movies for the holidays offer a whole range from nice to grim Winners, fighters, survivors, Black women, the Holocaust: they're all here By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | December 21st 2023