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Why people are so mad about that Lilo & Stitch ending
Disney's live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch has drawn significant criticism for what some say is a dumbed-down plot that lacks the original's more biting cultural commentary and a different ending that plays heavily into tropes about Native Hawaiians.
Trump biopic The Apprentice takes home top film prize at Canadian Screen Awards
The Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice won best motion picture at the final night of the Canadian Screen Awards.
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Bring Her Back proves even great horrors aren't horrifying anymore
Bring Her Back, the new supernatural outing by directors Michael and Danny Philippou, is as great as the advertising suggests. That doesn't make it spooky.
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Back up the money truck: Lilo & Stitch remake dumbs down a masterpiece
Regarded in a vacuum, 2025’s Lilo & Stitch is fine, and likely to entertain the littles. But compared to the stimulating, genre-defining, all-ages masterpiece from two decades ago, it’s nothing but demoralizing.
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The Weeknd could've gone to therapy. Instead, he made Hurry Up Tomorrow
The Weeknd's new movie is not quite a music video, and not quite a movie. Instead, it's arcane, obtuse and boring — a hopelessly pointless therapy assignment serving no one but Abel Tesfaye himself.
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In Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise shows off his Jesus complex
While not the series’ best movie, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning is solidly middle-of-the-pack — and as always, the set pieces are reliably thrilling. But beyond Tom Cruise's seemingly boundless appetite for grabbing onto the outside of airplanes, this is a film aware of the mythos he's created.
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Alessia Cara on her new album, new tour and old secrets
Canadian musician Alessia Cara sits down with CBC to talk about her new album, her return to touring and advice for up-and-coming musicians.
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The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg documents a broadcaster-turned-bank robber. That doesn't make it interesting
Prime's The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg follows the fall of Winnipeg sports broadcaster Steve Vogelsang. But even while documenting Vogelsang's criminal dealings, it fails to stay interesting.
War, displacement and collaboration are main themes in Hot Docs 'Made in Exile' program
Hot Docs' new Made in Exile program highlights a cohort of filmmakers at this year’s festival, and highlights stories of war and crisis in artists' homelands that they've had to leave.
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Thunderbolts*: MCU's first sign of life in years is obsessed with death
Thunderbolts*, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most recent offering, is a refreshingly direct film for a franchise that has offered a string of duds.