Reel Encounters

The new romantic comedy “Long Shot” depends on a number of well-worn romantic tropes.

By either some coincidence or the predominance of nostalgia, we currently have two films in theatres heavily inspired by two comedies from the 1980s.

“Avengers: Endgame” picks up immediately after the end of the previous Avengers film, “Infinity War,” as we see the effect of Thanos’ great snap – culling all the living organisms on earth by half.

During a tense scene in the newly released “Hotel Mumbai,” a pair of gunmen enter a hotel-room toilet in search of a victim.

Amidst the ongoing battle between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe for dominance, the arrival of “Shazam” feels significant because of its divergence.

With the current state of things, it seems only a matter of time before every animated Disney film is refashioned and remade as a live-action film to sustain us on a constant diet of Disney content.

Jordan Peele made his directorial debut to critical acclaim in 2017 with the American horror film “Get Out.”

You really can’t put a price on representation. There is nothing quite like seeing shades of your life vividly represented in the media you consume.

“Triple Frontier” is a riff on a particular song. Five former soldiers, bound by their shared scars, team up to pull off a daring heist.

The final battle in “Captain Marvel” is a one-on-one fight between our hero and the film’s primary villain.

We hear the faintest sound of rabbits frolicking during the opening seconds of “The Favourite,” even before we see anything.

What a difference five months makes. “Green Book” was the last film I saw at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Ten years ago, Henry Selick’s “Coraline” premiered as the first feature from animated movie studio Laika.

The title of the thriller/psychodrama/melodrama “Serenity” is a misnomer. The film justifies the title because Serenity is the name of a boat where a great deal of the film’s action is set.

Movie production being what it is, “The Wife,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017 and was released to theatres in 2018, feels very much of this time.

“Glass” recently premiered as the third part of M. Night Shyamalan’s Eastrail 177 Trilogy, which began with 2000’s “Unbreakable” and continued in 2017’s “Split.”

As a new year begins, every film critic is forced to consider the moments in cinema that burned brightest in the previous 12 months.

A seventy-year-old man walks into a bank. He is charming, diffident, well dressed.

The climax of the newly-released “Mary Poppins Returns” features the main characters attempting to, inexplicably, turn back time.

The best thing about any incarnation of Spider-Man has always been his normalcy.