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Movie critic Peter Howell, a Star contributor, has been writing about film since 1996 for the paper, where he was on staff from 1988 to 2020. He was the Star's pop critic from 1991-96. He is past president of the Toronto Film Critics Association, a member of the Critics Choice Association and proud Canadian member of the “Gurus o’ Gold” Oscars panel on MovieCityNews.com.

Location :

Toronto

Reporting Focus:

Film

Honours and Awards :

Winner (Team) — Applied Arts Magazine, Graphic Excellence Award (2004)

Articles by Peter Howell

Animated versions of Shameik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld share a scene in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” already one of the biggest 2023 movies.

The best summer 2023 movies list is here — our critic picks the top 10 you can’t miss

Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke in “Strange Way of Life,” a queer western by Pedro Almodovar premiering at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

From the best Cannes Film Festival in years, our critic picks the top 10 movies

Scarlett Johansson in a scene from Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City.”

‘Asteroid City’ at Cannes: Wes Anderson achieves peak weirdness in film about alien encounter

Abel Tesfaye, left, and Lily-Rose Depp, at the Cannes Film Festival photo call for “The Idol,” play a mysterious club owner and talent manager and a pop star in the TV series.

Abel Tesfaye’s ‘The Idol’ is clearly not a family show, but is it an offensive one?

Indigenous actress Lily Gladstone plays the wife of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

Martin Scorsese’s crime epic ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ premieres to raves at Cannes

Harrison Ford stars as the adventuresome title archaeologist for the fifth and final time in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," which had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ neither triumph nor disaster

In “Strange Way of Life,” Jake (Ethan Hawke, right) is the former partner of Silva (Pedro Pascal) in mayhem and also in the bedroom.

At the Cannes Film Festival screen romance is fraught with risk