#REVIEW: “HARD TRUTHS”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Writer-Director Mike Leigh and Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste team-up again after 28 years to tell this story about empathy and compassion.
Hard Truths follows Pansy (Jean-Baptiste), an angry and depressed woman, who lashes out at everyone and everything. Her husband Curtley (David Webber) and son Moses (Twain Barrett) get the brunt of her angry on a daily basis. To distance themselves from her hurtful criticisms, they flee the house or ...
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#REVIEW: “WOLF MAN”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Following the success of The Invisible Man in 2020, Writer-Director Leigh Whannell is reviving another beloved monster.
After receiving confirmation of his fatherâs passing, Blake (Christopher Abbott), a kind father and husband, must travel back to his secluded childhood home deep in the forests of Oregon. His wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) and their daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) accompany him in packing his fatherâs belongings. ...
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#REVIEW: “THE LAST SHOWGIRL”
By Mr. Will Wong
After a successful festival circuit run and some recent awards season momentum, Gia Coppola's THE LAST SHOWGIRL is poised to deliver upon its promise. This portrait of an aging Showgirl who must come to terms with what's next after the revue she's been performing in for 30 years, closes abruptly.
The Drama centers around Shelley (Pamela Anderson), who has seen a Showgirl's last lavish days in Las Vegas, seeing a yesteryear that possessed much prestige and glamour. Times ...
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#REVIEW: “YOUNG WERTHER”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
This Adaptation of the 1774 epistolary Novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, titled The Sorrows of Young Werther, puts Toronto on full display.
Young Werther tells the same story as the 18th-century novel. Werther (Douglas Booth) is a charming Writer who stumbles across the love of his life, Charlotte (Alison Pill). However, thereâs one big problem: Charlotteâs engaged. Despite this, Werther turns his world upside down in a desperate and ...
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#REVIEW: “THE ROOM NEXT DOOR”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth when they worked at the same magazine. However, as they grew-up and developed their own careers, they naturally grew apart. When Ingrid runs into an old colleague from the magazine, she asks about Martha. She learns Martha has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. This leads the two to meet again in this extreme, tender situation after years of being out of ...
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#REVIEW: “MUFASA: THE LION KING”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Picking up a few years following 2019's The Lion King, Simba (Donald Glover) leaves the Pride Lands to go on a mysterious mission to bring Nala (BeyoncĂŠ) back. Simba leaves their young daughter, Kiara (Blue Ivy Carter), in the care of Pumbaa (Seth Rogen) and Timon (Billy Eichner). Thankfully for the rambunctious warthog and meerkat, Rafiki (John Kani) comes with a story to keep Kiara â and them â invested. Here, we are taken into Mufasaâs ...
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#REVIEW: “NOSFERATU”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
Dracula!!! Ever heard of him? Robert Eggers' Nosferatu might make you wish you never had. His reinvention of the classic, hall of fame monster is arguably the most flat-out foreboding, hair-raising, (and least charming!) version ever put to film.
It's 1838 as winter descends on Victorian England. I had no idea Nosferatu was a Christmas movie. Ellen Hunter (Lily-Rose Depp) teeters on the brink of madness, haunted by visions of an obsessive ...
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#REVIEW: “KRAVEN THE HUNTER”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
All things, whether good or bad, must come to an end and with J.C. Chandorâs Kraven the Hunter (that was postponed for roughly 18 months) the Sony Pictures-MCU experiment is finally over, and somehow single individuals are in dismay. What started this year with a meme about a mother in the Amazon, slowly became the perfect allegory for all of the Sony Pictures-Marvel movies â a web is something a spider creates to trap its prey, but without a ...
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#REVIEW: “THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF ROHIRRIM”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
Long before The Two Towers, there was another battle of good and evil waged at Helm's Deep. Cut to princess Hera (Gaia Wise) at the top of a hill, gazing out at the majesty of Middle-earth. Our anonymous narrator notes that after her time, no one sang songs of her. A compelling riddle: if no one felt like writing a song about her, why make a feature film? Did she change her name? Was her story cut short? The answer, I'm afraid, is nowhere near ...
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#REVIEW: “A COMPLETE UNKNOWN”
By Mr. Will Wong
James Mangold returns with A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, a companion piece in ways, to his Oscar-winning WALK THE LINE. The Bob Dylan Biopic is a worthy successor to that, if not an even greater cinematic feat.
This Biopic introduces us to a young Robert Zimmerman also known as Bob Dylan (TimothĂŠe Chalamet), arriving in New York City from the midwest with the hopes of meeting his idol Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) in the hospital. And he does that, impressing him with his raw talent, ...
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