Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cats 2019

  ★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2019

  I didn’t think Tom Hooper was capable of artistry until I saw Cats. I stand corrected.

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  Minding the Gap 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Dec 2018

  A documentary conducting a vivisection on its own making and maker. Necessarily self-searching, overdetermined, raw, messy, captivating, imperfect.

Popular reviews

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  Firecrackers 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Sep 2018 3

  As electrifying a debut as any. Absolutely deserves to be mentioned in the same class of films as American Honey or The Florida Project (while traversing similar urban and psychical geographies as Gregoire and Weirdos). A must-see if you’re at all interested in the next generation of Canadian talent.

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  The Student 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Sep 2016 2

  Director Kirill Serebrennikov’s film The Student is a bitterly dark movie, one which shows the slow corruption of a society, primarily in this case through religion, but also through any number of prejudices and causes. The film is a deeply visceral look at hate, zealotry, and human callousness, told through the story of a Russian high school student who begins to quote from the Bible and espouse a vitriolic form of Christianity. The Student is exhausting, and to a certain…

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