Toy Story 3 doesn’t need an introduction or any extra praise. I gave it a solid 5 out of 5 and truly believe it is the best film of the year so far. It’s also currently sitting at 99% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes so I’m not alone in my assessment (it was at 100% until Cole Smithey and Armond White panned it). It’s not a question of if you should go see it, it’s how many times?
A film I’m not planning on seeing in the theatre at all is the comic book-based western, Jonah Hex. I was all set for the screening until I watched the trailer again and just couldn’t do it. From what I’m hearing today it’s a huge pile of rubbish and I made the right move by skipping it. Peter Howell calls it “artlessly directed and sloppily written” in the Toronto Star and I think that about sums it up for the rest of the critics I’ve read.
Winter’s Bone was very well made, and I did enjoy the performance Jennifer Lawrence gave, but I just don’t understand what all the fuss is about and definitely wouldn’t put it on a pedestal the way some have (I didn’t do an official review but if I did it would probably only get three stars). If you want a dramatic thriller this weekend though, it does succeed.
Also opening in Toronto this week is Holy Rollers (about a couple of young Orthodox Jews who get into the drug dealing business), the documentary Journey From Zanskar (which follows Buddhist monks as they bring about a dozen children to a Tibetan school), and Sook-Yin Lee’s sex-crazed Year Of The Carnivore (about sex). And don’t forget the NXNE film festival is still running until Saturday night.
What are you seeing this weekend? Let us know in the comments below.
