"A film that runs for only one minute less than three hours including closing credits has a lot going in and for it." DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews "Drive My Car".
Dougal Macdonald
Dougal Macdonald is the former film reviewer for CityNews”
"What characterises 'Parallel Mothers' is its robust, warm-bodied celebration of middle-class female-ness," writes movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
Set among the inmates of an aged people’s up-market home, "Queen Bees" made movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD smile occasionally. "But I grimaced in almost equal measure," he says.
"Stan is a sort of anti-hero, a good-looking drifter and hustler, who believes he can outwit fate, until his American Dream begins to unravel." DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews the movie "Nightmare Alley".
DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews a Chinese movie that he rates as:" delightful, entertaining, dramatic, and filmed in colour that often looks like monochrome, about a community confronting a grave disappointment arising from a minor issue. "
"It’s vigorous, mindless, often irrational fun that needs no detailed plot summary to explain it." Here it is: DOUGAL MACDONALD's review of "The 355".
Scottish filmmaker Ben Sharrock started to question the dehumanising representations of refugees – "a faceless mass that was being demonised or pitied.” This movie is the outcome.
"The film’s depiction of India’s people’s responses to the team’s progress to the top of the competition may be, well, a little over the top," writes movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD after watching '83.
Of "Spiderman: No Way Home", reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD writes: "The film is unrestrained imagination gone bonkers, actors giving every indication of having fun wreaking expensive destruction.
"Its tensions are gentle yet unremitting," writes reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD of the movie "The Lost Daughter".
"The film’s stream of humour is clever enough to respect filmgoers’ intelligence without belabouring it with a thick layer of slapstick and other mawkish physical devices." Reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD'S been to see "The French Dispatch".
Five stars. A rare treat from reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD for the new sci-fi movie "Don't Look Up".
