"Herself", says reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD, is a movie about domestic violence, not so brutal as to be sickening. But gutsy enough to be worthwhile for the audience.
Dougal Macdonald
Dougal Macdonald is the former film reviewer for CityNews”
"Buckley’s Chance" has glaring continuity errors that shriek that those working behind the camera didn’t know or, worse, knew but didn’t care about them. DOUGAL MACDONALD is unimpressed.
DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews "A Family" and wonders what the underlying reason was for making it!
Movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD can hardly wait for the sequel to "The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard". Two stars will tell you he's kidding.
Movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD says "The Mole Agent" is a deeply moving film that expands the conventional boundaries of documentary storytelling by going into a Santiago aged persons’ home.
“Fast and Furious 9” scarcely wavers from the formula. "It’s a money mine for director Justin Lin and his team. Same old same old. And whose money? Yours," writes movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
"Marco’s ambition, intention, desire, yearning – call it what you like – lead the film out of the realm of possibility and abandon it on the crags of ridiculousness." Two stars for "From the Vine" from movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
"Cousins" is a film with an intensity that examines the status of M?ori women from, in one case, kindergarten to old age. DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews it.
“Heroic Losers” was Argentina’s entry at the 2020 Oscars and reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD gives it whopping 4.5 stars!
"For a civil, as opposed to criminal, lawsuit movie, by and large, 'Percy v Goliath' works well enough," says reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
IN "Breaking Bread" you can’t taste what’s cooking on the screen. But you can see Israeli and Muslim cooks co-operating, exchanging recipes, comparing methods, above all, being friends. Anybody got a better idea, asks movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
Without doubt, Johnny Deep’s performance in new movie "Minamata" is an eye-popper, the sort of portrayal that collects nominations for awards, says reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
