Eli Glasner

After months of sitting in the dark, CBC film critic Eli Glasner has winnowed it down to his 24 best movies and moments of 2024. From Wicked to wordless wonders and computer-generated documentary, we've got some great ways to fill up your holiday viewing playlist.

Twenty-four years after the first film premiered, director Ridley Scott and an A-list cast returned to Rome for Gladiator 2. With stars Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington, the film doesn't lack for talent. But CBC's Eli Glasner says it can't escape the shadow of its predecessor.

A maximum-security prison and a theatre company run by prisoners, those are the details of Sing Sing, a new drama starring Colman Domingo that CBC's Eli Glasner says is nothing less than a testament to the transformational power of art.

Raunchy and raucous, Deadpool & Wolverine finds Ryan Reynolds aiming his snark at Marvel, while both roasting and celebrating the state of superhero movies, says CBC’s Eli Glasner.

The first Inside Out movie is considered a modern-day animated classic. So how does the sequel justify its return? The reason caught our self-described grumbly film critic off-guard.

While The Fall Guy touts itself as a tribute to stunt performers, CBC's Eli Glasner says Ryan Gosling's role as a stuntman still pining for his ex is the most authentic part of the action-comedy from the director of Bullet Train.

Though the setting of Civil War is described as "near-future America," CBC's Eli Glasner says the reporter-led road movie feels like it could be tomorrow. He calls director Alex Garland's movie urgent and visceral — a film not so much about war, but the effect of it.

Part personal tale of grief, part academic exploration of race and discrimination, Ava DuVernay’s new film draws on everything she’s learned as a filmmaker. The award-winning director sat down to chat with CBC’s Eli Glasner about Origin, and why the globe-trotting tale about racism needed a personal angle.

A grizzled Gerard Butler, talkative teen turtles and a feminist Frankenstein are just a few of the cinematic delights of 2023 as CBC film critic Eli Glasner runs down 23 of his favourite films of the year.

Bradley Cooper, the director and star of A Star is Born, is back in Maestro, his new movie about Leonard Bernstein that CBC’s Eli Glasner say is a stunning portrait of a complicated love story.

Bottoms is not your average high school comedy, and that’s what makes its so refreshing. It’s also, extremely violent, unfliltered and frequently hilarious says CBC’s Eli Glasner.

What happens when fire meets water? It's not a science experiment, it's the start of a new movie from Pixar. The latest animated adventure from Pixar is filled with fantastical creations, but it's the director's own experience growing up the son of immigrants that could make this story special.

What’s behind the buzz over BlackBerry? Eli Glasner digs into the new movie that tracks the rise and fall of the phone company featuring a surprising turn by Canadian Jay Baruchel.

Kiefer Sutherland may have gotten his start with films like Lost Boys, but now the star of the 24 series is back playing a character who is more about saving himself than saving the world. CBC News senior entertainment reporter Eli Glasner chatted with the Canadian star about his new series Rabbit Hole.

Next week, Death on the Nile will be the first Hollywood film to open in China in months, a sign of increasingly strained relations between the two cinematic superpowers.

It was a year when theatres reopened, long delayed franchises returned and movies big and small welcomed fans back in the dark. The CBC’s Eli Glasner runs down the best films of 2021.

Actor Nicholas Campbell has apologized for saying the N-word while shooting a new film and is not returning to the CBC show Coroner pending an investigation.

Entertainment reporters Eli Glasner and Jackson Weaver compiled some of their top picks from the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2021 lineup.

The CBC’s Eli Glasner runs down his list of the best films of the year.

Lady Thor. Blade. The deaf speedster Makkari. As Iron Man and Captain America step off stage, Marvel’s plans for the next phase of films are challenging fanboy expectations while reflecting the growing face of the audience.