MOVIES: no blockbusters this week but check out some very good smaller films
Patriarchy, corporate greed, political satire, anxiety about the future and bravery amid The Holocaust are all on the bill
Reviews
MOVIES: Civil War's extreme US future, Food Inc. 2's dire warnings and a true crime mystery
Also a couple of unusual love stories that bring in fantasy and even science fiction
MOVIES: Monkey Man, violent fantasy by actor-cum-director Dev Patel with some Canadian help
Also a comedy flinging obscenities about, grave robbers at work, a damaged dog fancier and remembering Gene Wilder
Godzilla and King Kong are the big monsters on screen this week. There are others.
Also watch free speech running amok, nature threatened and for a change of mood: romance
MOVIES: Ghostbusters and Road House bring back the 1980s
Also long term care exposed, a Persian woman 's freedom bid, a Catholic horror and William Shatner telling his own story
MOVIES: An Oscar brings new life to Henry Sugar and his quirky Wes Anderson friends
Also Anthony Hopkins in a Holocaust story, a gem from New Zealand and more
MOVIES: Four times out, Kung Fu Panda is sure to be big with families once again
While Oscar winner Peter Farrelly flounders with his new one and an Indigenous film brings chills and suspense
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
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
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.
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
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
MOVIES: New award-calibre films arrive as we wait for the Oscars
There's also realism about schools, gentrification, memory and racism.
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
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