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 ByVolkmar 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. ByVolkmar 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 ByVolkmar 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 ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment January 4th 2024
Movies: picks for best of the year Poor Things and Ferrari are the recent arrivals. ByVolkmar 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 ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment December 21st 2023
MOVIES: Willy Wonka is back and expected to be huge this holiday season, plus four others They are another Chicken Run, two films with women's issues and some musicians you should know ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment December 14th 2023
This week at the movies They include two animated films, one a near masterpiece ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment December 7th 2023
MOVIES: Leonard Bernstein revealed in Maestro, Eddie Murphy's first Christmas movie and a peek into the Whistler Film Festival Also an unusual road to better race relations in the U.S. ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment November 30th 2023
MOVIES: American Thanksgiving brings out big titles like Napoleon, Wish and May December Also: a visit with the super rich, Nicolas Cage at his best, comedy from Finland and, for us, healing Canada's Indigenous ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment November 24th 2023
MOVIES: What came before the Hunger Games; can soccer's big losers turn things around and what about the Rolling Stones? Also a scathing look at North Korea and animated fun with Adam Sandler ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment November 17th 2023
MOVIES: A sweet one for the holidays, Denys Arcand on our woke conflicts and a new one from Marvel Also: extreme pursuit of fame and re-imagining your life in high school ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment November 9th 2023
MOVIES: Three find art in tales of robbery, contract killing and maybe even murder A scene from Anatomy of a Fall ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment October 26th 2023
A masterpiece from Martin Scorsese They're about an obsessive save-the-world missionary and an immigrant mother-daughter conflict ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment October 19th 2023
MOVIES: Nancy Pelosi's daughter grills Capitol Hill rioters on what they were thinking Also a re-worked E.A.Poe Classic, Karen Kain's Swan Song and secrets from Joan Baez ByVolkmar Richter Reviews Entertainment October 12th 2023