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Black Box Investigations (2023)

Black Box Investigations is an Official Selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival. It premiers Sunday, October 1st, 8:30pm at Vancity Theatre.

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Oppenheimer (2023)

The first two hours of Oppenheimer are pretty close to exactly what you’d expect of a Christopher Nolan-helmed biopic.

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Elemental (2023)

Elemental should never have made it out of the concept brainstorming phase.

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Joy Ride (2023)

Theatrically-released raunchy comedies are becoming an endangered species.

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Reality (2023)

Reality is a fascinating piece of docudrama by Tina Satter, adapting her stage play to film.

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023)

As an adaptation of the universally-known and -loved novel from 1970, it is what you would expect: nostalgic and rosy and clearly a piece of “warm-hug cinema.” It’s more than that, though.

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Renfield (2023)

The pitch is clear just from the top billing

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Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022)

Palm Trees and Power Lines is a movie that succeeds in what it sets out to do, but that doesn’t mean I enjoyed it.

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Air (2023)

2023 is apparently the year for “biz-pics,” biopics that chronicle the rise of various corporate empires.

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Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is the type of movie that I imagined and hoped we would get on the regular after Avengers popped at the box office in 2012.