CIUT Critics Circle

Critics Circle July 19, 2025

Critics Circle June 21, 2025

Critics Circle June 28 2025

Critics' Circle July 5, 2025

Critics Circle June 14, 2025

Interviews This Week:
Daniel Garber interviews the directors Seth Scriver and Peter Scriverabout their new animated film Forever Cookie, about life of two half-brothers and their families in the Shmattawa reserve in Northern Manitoba and Kensington Market in Toronto.
Reviews This Week:
Lynn Slotkin reviews Macbeth playing at Stratford.
Daniel Garber reviews 2 films:
How to Train your DragonA live-action version of the original kids' animated film from 2010.
The Life of Chucka heart-warming movie about the end of the world.

Critics' Circle June 7, 2025

Interviews this week:
Lynn Slotkin interviews Jake Planinc, Artistic Director at Matchstick Theatre  about Leaving Home  at Coal Mine Theatre.
Reviews this week:
Lynn reviews Red Like Fruit that is playing at Soulpepper Theatre. 
Daniel is reviewing 3 films this week:
The Phoenician Scheme,  Wes Anderson's latest, about an eccentric millionaire in the 1950s.
The Ritual, an exorcism movie based on a true story.Ballerina, an action/thriller starring Ana de Armas as an assassin in the world of John Wick.

Critics Circle May 24, 2025

Interviews this week:
Lynn Slotkin interviews Patrick Gallagan.
Reviews this week:
Lynn is reviews Tons of Money; Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe, Anything Goes
Daniel is reviewing 3 films this week:
Bad Shabbos, an indie comedy.Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, an action thrillerInside Out Festival
 

Critics' Circle May 17, 2025

Interviews this week:
Daniel Garber interviews Ross “Memphis” Pambrun about Red River Gold, a history treasure hunt series set in Manitoba on APTN about lost gold from 1870 and the Red River Rebellion.
Reviews this week:
Lynn is reviewing Comfort Food by Zorana Sadiq who also acts in it. Playing at The Studio of the Streetcar Crowsnest theatre.
Daniel is reviewing 3 films this week:
Friendship by Tom Robinson dark comedy.
Hurry Up Tomorrow a  Music bio-drama starring The Weeknd as himself.
The Old Woman With The Knife a Korean action thriller.
 
 

Critics Circle May 10, 2025

Interviews this week:
Lynn interviews Zorana Sadiq a Pakistani-Canadian actor, playwright, and classical musician whose work spans different types of performance from theatre, verbatim theatre, radio and television to chamber music, modern opera and new music.
Daniel Garber interviews Halifax director Jason Buxton about his new film Sharp Corner.
Reviews this week:
Lynn is reviewing Pride & Prejudice playing at The Grande Theatre in London, Ontario.
Daniel is reviewing 3 new genre films:
Shadow Force,  an action movie about in-fighting among G7 military assassins, starring Omar Sy and Kerry Williams.
Clown in the Cornfield, a horror movie -- the name says it all.
Rust, a western best known as the film where Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed its cinematographer during production.
 

Critics' Circle April 19, 2025

Interviews this week:
Daniel Garber interviews Toronto filmmaker Lena Macdonald about her film Betrayal having its world premiere at Hot Docs.
Reviews this week:
Lynn is reviewing Benevolence  plays at Tarragon Theatre.
Daniel is reviewing 2 films this week:
The Wedding Banquet a new version of Ang Lee's 1990s movie.
The Courageous a French Drama about a single mom.