Peter Howell Night Vision | Film critic

Angelina Jolie leaps back into the action game with "Those Who Wish Me Dead"

Survival thriller offers escapism, because its many onscreen dangers aren’t viral.

Life sucks and then you sigh in "About Endlessness"

"About Endlessness," the latest exercise in artful gloom by Sweden's Roy Andersson, makes mundanity special.

Films with bite and brains at Hot Docs 2021

12 hot picks for Toronto's annual celebration of documentary cinema, April 29 - May 9.

"Nomadland" lights a fire at the Oscars

Chloé Zhao made history and Frances McDormand howled at the moon, as their moving drama of mobile life went gold.

Here’s who will win the Oscars — and who should — after the strangest year in film

Peter Howell's annual forecast of the golden and unchosen at the Academy Awards.

The waiting is over for "Nomadland," a superb film that ponders what home means

Is home a place we reside at, or do we carry it with us everywhere?

Oscar gets a short, sharp dose of reality from a world beset by woes

Oscar-nominated shorts always have a lot to say, this year all the more so.

The Canadian Film Fest went virtual in a hurry — but now it's ready for a close-up

Festival of Canuck indie cinema runs from April 1 - 18 on Super Channel

Screwball meets surreal in "French Exit" as Michelle Pfeiffer spends and rages in City of Lights

Pfeiffer is a marvel as a disaffected socialite out to blow an inheritance.

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Movies I Can't Live Without

Toronto Star movie critic 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 has written a book about his 25 most-loved films, with highly personal reviews from "Apocalypse Now" to "The Wizard of Oz." Here's a sample of his review of "2001: A Space Odyssey," his all-time favourite:

"It was billed as The Ultimate Trip and the hyperbole was justified, then as now.

Stanley Kubrick's space opus still seems like the future, 56 years after its release and 23 years after its significant title year. It never gets old and I never tire of seeing it, even after 50-plus viewings ...." 🌓

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