Author: Maxance Vincent

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‘Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom’ Review: Aardman Returns for More Light-Hearted Spooky Fun

Maxance Vincent ,  4 min read

If you weren’t satiated with Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (a masterpiece), Aardman has got the big-screen cure for you with Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom. This lighthearted, enjoyable family fare is highly stimulating for young viewers and smart enough for grown-ups. It’s the kind of sophisticated entertainment only a stop-motion-driven animated studio can pull off

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‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ is an Absolute Masterpiece | TIFF 2026 Film Review

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After Marvel Studios fumbled the production of Bassam Tariq’s vision for Blade with Mahershala Ali, the director and actor both left the long-gestating MCU project to do Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. The action movie then used Ali’s training for Eric Brooks to instead put him in a tormented character study about a single Muslim father trying to do right

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‘Fjord’ is a Necessary Exercise of Introspection | TIFF 2026 Film Review

Maxance Vincent ,  ,  ,  ,  6 min read

The metaphor is heard loud and clear in Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, this year’s Palme d’Or-winning picture, as the evangelical, conservative Gheorghiu family moves into a highly progressive (and liberal) neighborhood in Norway. If you didn’t click it because you didn’t meet Mungiu’s latest at its terms, it’s an apt parallel for the return of conservatism, which has become more prominent around

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‘Hope’ is Cinema at Its Purest | TIFF 2026 Film Review

Maxance Vincent ,  ,  5 min read

There isn’t a better way to open the 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival than with a special screening of Na Hong-jin’s Hope. This is the South Korean genre artist’s first feature in ten years, following the masterful The Wailing in 2016. It’s been a while, which made the prospect of a Cannes premiere all the more special for

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‘By Any Means’ Review: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Shines in Uneven Drama

Maxance Vincent ,  5 min read

After an incredible feature directorial debut with The Inspection, Elegance Bratton returns with a more politically charged drama by recounting the unlikely alliance between the FBI and the mob in By Any Means. While this partnership has never been officially confirmed by the bureau, historical records indicate that the agency hired notorious mob enforcer Gregory Scarpa Sr. (Mark Wahlberg) to perform

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‘Idiots’ Review: A Maximalist and Outrageous (Dumb) Comedy

Maxance Vincent 4 min read

What you need to know about Macon Blair’s Idiots is simple: this movie is very dumb. The film follows two idiots, Mark (Dave Franco) and Davis (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), as they are tasked with a very simple assignment: transport a troubled teenager to a rehabilitation facility. The two individuals recently lost their respective jobs and have now found a gig that

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