Jackson Weaver

This climate morality tale suggests that director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and his audience are engaging in the same self-satisfied ritual that got us into this real-life mess in the first place. Of using high-minded entertainment to point out, and joke about, our impending doom, as if that alone is admirable. As if that could change anything at all.

Despite a major star's return to dramatic acting, a two-time best director winner at the Oscars and enough publicity to rival the moon landing, Digger looks set to become one of the biggest box-office disasters of the year.

Marvel's Avengers: Endgame has recaptured its title as the highest-grossing movie of all time this weekend (not accounting for inflation). It overtook James Cameron's biggest release with a gross of $2.9255 billion US, narrowly superseding Avatar's $2.9237 billion US.

Though Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning positions itself as endlessly relevant, it's so vapid and made with such disinterest that it resists serious hatred. The follow-up to 2010's Facebook-takedown The Social Network is an insulting bore with very little insight or opinion to disagree with, let alone productively hate.

Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour, fire-and-brimstone documentary Musk — on tech oligarch, worlds-richest-man Elon Musk — is not uplifting. Instead, it is one of the most depressing and terrifying pieces of public media since An Inconvenient Truth alerted a mostly unaware public to its imminent annihilation by climate change.

The genuinely unparalleled originality of Nathan Fielder's documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes who was jailed for defrauding investors, shows that the more you see — at least, when it comes to documenting frustratingly unknowable human beings — the less you know.

The Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything, from Canadian comedian and director Nathan Fielder, is taking the world by storm. A grocery list of Canadian creatives are behind it.

Sixteen years in the making, stop-motion animation company Laika's Wildwood is its single best movie ever.

Fjord director Cristian Mungiu and star Sebastian Stan talk to CBC News about their divisive and celebrated flick.

CBC News spoke with Queen of Canada director Cristian Gomes and journalist Mack Lamoureux about their new documentary, and why it focuses on Romana Didulo's past followers.