Film Review: CARDINALS (Canada 2016) ***1/2

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When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on – until the deceased’s son shows up at … See full summary »

CARDINALS is a thoroughly enjoyable dry comedy/suspense drama written by Grayson Moore and and directed by him and Aidan Shipley, both Toronto’s Ryerson University graduates.  It stars Sheila McCarthy who is always ever so good in movies like these, since she shot to fame in Patricia Rozema’s I’VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING.  McCarthy plays a mother, Valerie just out of prison from a drunken driving crime that killed her neighbour.  She is so good in CARDINALS that one cannot get enough of her.

The film is a bit disorienting.  For…

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