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Brian D. Johnson
Brian D. Johnson writes about film and the arts for Maclean’s. He’s also a filmmaker, and director of the annual Toronto Film Critics Association Awards Gala.
Ted and other R-rated comedies are hitting the box office below the belt
It’s a stuffed animal house
It’s a Dark (and stormy) Knight
Christopher Nolan dusts off Batman, raises the stakes in Gotham and makes the butler cry
Cine-tourism: ’Savages’ and ’To Rome with Love’
Tripping from the drug war to la dolce vita with Oliver Stone and Woody Allen
Woody Allen capitalizes on Europe
The neurotic New Yorker travels out of his time zone and enjoys new-found success
In conversation: Oliver Stone
On Mexican drug cartels, movie violence and whether America is getting more pot-positive
’Take This Waltz’: Lust Tango in Toronto
Mixed emotions, and opinions, arise from Sarah Polley’s summer-in-the-city romance
Spider-Man defies gravity with gravitas
Powered by strong performances, this reboot is passionate, darkly thrilling and strangely grown-up
Marriage Polley style
The Canadian director waltzes in with a new man, a new baby and a bold new movie that hits pretty close to home
High concepts and a mixed bag
Brian D. Johnson on a Braveheart lassie, an apocalyptic Steve Carell, a vampire-slaying Abe Lincoln