Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer Grade: 87 Cast: Animated with voices of Josh Hutcherson, Samantha Bee, Martin Short, Morena Baccarin, Jeff Dunham Director: Jennifer Westcott, John Cleese Rating: PG Running time: 1 hour, 29 minutes Available on demand. By KAREN MARTIN …

The Film Scribes Podcast. This week Rich Heimlich (/comment), Stephen Silver (Splice Today, Philly Voice), Dan Tabor (Phawker, Cinapse.co) and Piers Marchant (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Phillymag.com) review A STAR IS BORN, THE PREDATOR and MANDY. For a discussion this week, Piers Marchant …

TIFF 2018: Day 5 Films: 3 Best Film of the Day: ROMA (pictured) If Beale Street Could Talk:  I was one of seemingly few critics at TIFF two years ago who wasn’t thoroughly won over by Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight. It …

TIFF 2018: Day 3 Films: 4 Best Film of the Day: The Old Man & the Gun (pictured) Gwen: This is no white-knuckle affair; it’s a red one. As in knuckles chapped and scraped until nearly bleeding. Wind plays a …

Films: 4 Best Film of the Day: Shoplifters (pictured) Shoplifters: Japanese director par excellence Hirokazu Koreeda’s film, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, works in quiet subtle ways, that affect you without you quite knowing why, like watching a …

Films: 2 Best Film of the Day: Burning Non-Fiction: Olivier Assayas’ film plays like one of those philosophical talkies from the ‘70s, with various characters weighing in on a particular talking point of significance to the director, Five Characters in …