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.

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Who will win at the Oscars

Film critic Brian D. Johnson on who will win, who should win, and the potential for surprise upsets

Culture

Antidotes to Valentine’s Day: ’Gloria’ and ’Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’

Skip the romcom and see these two smart indie films

Movies

’The Monuments Men’ falls short

Why Clooney’s band of heroes didn’t make Oscar grade

Movies

Labor Day turns up the heat

The film Maclean’s calls ’moist and romantic!’

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Writing the stars: 28 years covering showbiz

Brian D. Johnson on the nature of celebrity from Meryl to the Bieb

Movies

There’s no unravelling this ’Devil’s Knot’

Atom Egoyan tiptoes around the mystery of the West Memphis Three

Movies

TIFF unearths the Stones’ taboo sex-and-drugs doc

Beyond the scenes of group sex on a plane lies a lost masterpiece of vérité

Movies

Oscar nominations reward the broken American dream

Train-wreck tales of scam artists dominate

Movies

The best 26 films of 2013 in seven minutes

It’s montage season. Here’s one for your consideration.

Movies

’Watermark’ wins TFCA’s $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award

First Polley, now Burtynsky-Baichwal—Toronto critics love docs

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