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Silenced
(2026)
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Pat Mullen
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In some ways, Silenced might be a bit muddied by the fact that it contains so many stories, but there’s also a strength to the messiness. It’s a collective message to future silence breakers that they’re not alone.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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Time and Water
(2026)
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Pat Mullen
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Time and Water finds a fitting counterpoint to the bravura visuals and adrenaline-rush of Fire of Love as these images invite audiences to pause, consider the passage of time, and experience an elegiac sense of loss.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Nuisance Bear
(2026)
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Pat Mullen
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The feature furthers many of the ideas explored in the short, but with a cinematic eye that elevates the material on every level.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Seized
(2026)
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Courtney Small
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Seized is a poignant reminder that in times when fear and manipulation are used to keep us silent, it is important that journalists continue to speak truth power.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Birds of War
(2026)
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Courtney Small
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Birds of Wars is a touching love story that finds hope and heart in the bonds that bring people together, even during conflicts designed to keep them apart.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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To Hold a Mountain
(2026)
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Pat Mullen
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To Hold a Mountain is a quietly powerful feminist fable about our duty to protect each other and the land that sustains us.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
(2026)
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Jason Gorber
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We are witness to the recollections from the participants in this dramatic era of change, and equally was can see how these movements were birthed in the first place.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Ghost in the Machine
(2026)
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Jason Gorber
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The film itself is incredibly ambitious in terms of its intellectual scope, but its effectiveness would be buttressed by a bit more concision.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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American Doctor
(2026)
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Pat Mullen
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Riveting...a story of personal and collective action.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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The Last First: Winter K2
(2026)
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Jason Gorber
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The interviews are probing without overstepping their bounds, allowing each individual to share his or her story while permitting us as the audience to navigate the competing perspectives.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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Everybody To Kenmure Street
(2026)
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Barbara Goslawski
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Everybody to Kenmure Street is an important representation of the power of the people.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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A Private Life
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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At 96 years young, documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has a new credit to his résumé: scene-stealer
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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Yanuni
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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[The] enforcement missions play like something out of a war movie. The reality is that the fight in the Amazon is a war of its own kind and Yanuni shares a view from the front lines.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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State of Firsts
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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A vérité doc like State of Firsts marks a radical departure from films like Framing Agnes, No Ordinary Man, and The Nest that mix traditional documentary elements with drama and performance to question fissures in recorded history, among other themes.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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King Hamlet
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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To be or not to be a serious actor, that is the question that underlies this touching backstage documentary.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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Remaining Native
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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There’s a nice parallel between young Stevens’ outlook as a runner and Bethmann’s own positive framing of this story as the doc mirrors its star’s forward-looking eye towards healing.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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The Gas Station Attendant
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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Particularly for audiences within the diverse mosaic of American families, these home movies offer stand-ins for the countless stories that often go untold, but are no less meaningful in our personal and shared histories.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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76 Days Adrift
(2024)
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Pat Mullen
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For a film that relies so heavily on dramatic re-creations, the wealth of dramatic survival tales illustrate the film’s limitations by comparison. The visual design simply remains too adrift to emotionally engage a viewer.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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Clairtone
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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It’s a lo-fi approach for a hi-fi tale.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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Hudson is heartbreakingly good as she completely loses herself in Claire’s passion for the stage.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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Street Smart: Lessons from a TV Icon
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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At a time when major players in the media landscape are merging and pledges to diversity, equity, and inclusion are disappearing, there’s a lot to learn from Manzano’s story.
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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Steal This Story, Please!
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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Goodman’s story offers a compelling reminder that smart, honest, and accurate reporting is a duty, not a business.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Sons of Detroit
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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This deeply personal film sees Xido recognize and confront his blind spots when he comes back home to perform a play after being abroad for many years.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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But...le Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing B...
(2025)
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Courtney Small
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Channelling the band’s sense of artistic flare, Stern’s documentary intertwines plenty of playful visual moments into its conventional structure.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Roads of Fire
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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Roads of Fire offers a snapshot of a situation that’s only just beginning.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Afternoons of Solitude
(2024)
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Pat Mullen
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This ballsy documentary by Albert Serra steps into the ring to capture the beauty and brutality of a time-honoured, if increasingly controversial tradition.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes
(2025)
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Rachel Ho
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'We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes' honours the young women who answered the call of duty during WWII, and along the way, offers viewers a poignant retrospective of a bygone era.
Posted Nov 30, 2025
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Fiume o morte!
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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An ingenious reclamation of place and history.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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The Secret of Me
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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The film, while conventionally told in the fashion that many true crime docs are these days, arrives at a timely moment to add to the conversation about rights for people across the spectrum of gender identities.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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Take the Money and Run
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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Juncker tells Haaning’s story with a mix of cinéma vérité and interviews, but the former actually provides far more insight than the artist’s words do. This man is simply exhausting.
Posted Oct 27, 2025
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Just Sing
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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The stakes both dramatic and emotional play differently, in part thanks to A Capella’s whimsical charm and its ability to tug at heartstrings with an unabashed serving of heartfelt cheese.
Posted Oct 26, 2025
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Love, Harold
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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Love, Harold offers a difficult if productive exercise in breaking the stigma around suicide and conversations about mental health.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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Who Killed the Montreal Expos?
(2025)
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Rachel Ho
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[H]ighlights another aspect that one might not have fully appreciated: Loria and Samson were brash Americans coming into Canada assuming whatever rules of commerce applied down south translated cross-border.
Posted Oct 20, 2025
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A Life Illuminated
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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This spectacular adventure reminds one of how small we are in the ocean of life, and all we can do is marvel at the complexity of the world before our eyes.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5
(2025)
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Susan G. Cole
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[R]esonates in situations all over the planet today.
Posted Oct 01, 2025
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Peter Hujar's Day
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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The documentary-adjacent nature of Peter Hujar’s Day illustrates its genius in honouring lived experiences of working class artists. It’s an authentic and lived-in portrait an artist of whom few, if any, video interviews exist.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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The Tale of Silyan
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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It’s a beauty of a film—a wonder to behold with striking cinematography, poetic storytelling, and a soundtrack rife with avian clucking that warms the heart.
Posted Sep 16, 2025
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Below the Clouds
(2025)
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Barbara Goslawski
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Rosi nimbly crafts a vibrant and intricate homage to this region.
Posted Sep 16, 2025
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Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
(2025)
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Susan G. Cole
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But it’s the archival goldmine of interviews and performances discovered just as Pankiw thought she’d gathered everything that offers crucial insights.
Posted Sep 16, 2025
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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The world might have failed Hind Rajab, but this film ensures that her voice will be forever seared into your memory.
Posted Sep 16, 2025
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Cover-Up
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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The best investigative filmmaker in the biz turn her lens upon a cantankerous reporter who proudly personifies independent adversarial journalism.
Posted Sep 13, 2025
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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There’s a practical element at play in the film’s rudimentary aesthetic that conveys the difficulty of reporting during wartime, but also the basic daily challenges of life under occupation.
Posted Sep 13, 2025
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues never goes to 11, but it also doesn’t seem to try to crank it that high. It’s a comfortably enjoyable seven.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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It's the Stop Making Sense of Elvis movies.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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Love+War
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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This intense saga of courage under fire offers an all-too-timely reminder why the world needs independent eyes on the ground in times of conflict.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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A Simple Soldier
(2025)
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Courtney Small
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A Simple Soldier understands that there are no winners in war. It offers waves of hardship, destruction, and emotional and physical trauma that are far from simple.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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Powwow People
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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The film does for the ceremony what Fred Wiseman does for libraries and galleries in his films, although Fred might want to consider giving Ruben Little Head a gig.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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[I]t’s risky to present such a harrowing and moving story and remove it from the context in which the hero finds himself. And when the context for the story is the most complicated geopolitical situation of our time, that’s a big blindspot to reconcile.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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The Eyes of Ghana
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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Having two great filmmakers match each other’s brainwaves makes this excavation of cinematic history a deeply moving examination of the power of documentary films.
Posted Sep 09, 2025
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YOU HAD TO BE THERE: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
(2025)
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Pat Mullen
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The documentary offers a hugely entertaining record of Canadian cultural history worthy of time and celebration. And, in perhaps the most Canadian trait ever, it’s an American production.
Posted Sep 08, 2025
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