Film critic | Peter Howell Night Vision

"Parasite" is a savage, surprising class satire that pricks the conscience

Starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Lee Sun-kyun, Park So-dam, Cho Yeo-jeong, Lee Jung-eun, Chang Hyae-jin, Jung Hyeon-jun and Jung Zis...

Time to find the winter boots -- again!

How is it possible that it has been nearly a year since we made the annual trek to Park City, Utah, in order to attend my favourite film ...

Seeing Allred my festival fave

Without a doubt, my favourite film at the festival this year was Seeing Allred, a fast-paced doc about U.S. women’s rights attorney Glori...

Sunny days at Sundance 2018

Park City, Utah -- I beg to differ with the cranky movie industry folks who left L.A.'s palm trees and their own well-lined palms to enjo...

'We are all connected,' climate panel told

Park City, Utah — Introducing the New Climate panel convened for Sundance 2018, festival director John Cooper joked that the organization...

This is Home: A Refugee Story

Park City, Utah — The Sundance program log line for This is Home: A Refugee Story, in the World Documentary Competition at this year’s fe...

The Devil We Know dumps on DuPont

Park City, Utah — Chances are good that you have never heard of perfluorooctanoic acid. But chances are nearly 100 per cent that it knows...

Anote's Ark premieres in Park City

Park City, Utah — While the rest of the world either ignores climate change or frets about what might happen some day in the distant fut...

A taste of Toronto in Park City, Utah

Park City, Utah -- Toronto's film critics might be tickled to know that their just-published book, Our Words on Film, is now available fo...

The Game Changers extols virtues of veganism

Park City, Utah — Academy Award-winning director Louie Psihoyos, whose 2009 Sundance doc The Cove changed forever how the world thinks ab...

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Movies I can't live without

Toronto Star movie critic Peter Howell has written a book about his 25 favourite movies, 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 film:

"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, 52 years after its release and 19 years after its significant title year. It never gets old and I never tire of seeing it, even after 50-plus viewings..."