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Meadowlarks (2025) Alex Heeney This chamber drama, set over the course of a long weekend, is full of star power... As they figure out how to collectively grieve and start looking toward the future, we do indeed see the birth of a family.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Nika & Madison (2025) Alex Heeney Nika & Madison shows how terrifying the colonial justice system is, even at the best of times. Part procedural and part hangout movie, Nika & Madison is a showcase for Indigenous talent on screen and behind the camera.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Aki (2025) Alex Heeney Melding the activist sensibilities and attention to the land of Falls Around Her with the more overtly experimental approach of Stellar, Naponse’s first foray into documentary is a thrilling look at a year in the life of Atikameksheng.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Silent Friend (2025) Alex Heeney Brimming with ideas about human isolation and connection, the human fascination with trees and using science to understand the mysteries of the world, and how, as the saying goes, the more things change, the more they remain the same
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Lovely Day (2025) Alex Heeney Light on its feet like Falardeau’s best films, Lovely Day gently navigates the echoing trauma of immigration, the challenges of managing a broken family, and how wedding days are as much about the people around you as [the marriage].
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fence (2025) Alex Heeney Tensions rise, secrets are kept and unfolded, and the white men are in a complicated game of exploitation, perhaps even of each other. Blyth and McKenna-Bruce are key standouts in this very strong and seasoned cast.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Franz (2025) Alex Heeney Franz is an unconventional biopic for an unconventional writer...a very Gothic story — you can always feel the walls and ceilings boxing Franz in — which makes it also feel like Franz’s story seen through his lens on the world.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
The Currents (2025) Alex Heeney [The Currents] is a dreamy glimpse into the psyche of a woman...full of psychologically rich spaces: dark corridors, billowing curtains, and, of course, currents — the watery [and] the emotional ones.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Plainclothes (2025) Alex Heeney It’s a part of recent history ripe for revisiting, especially as audiences will have more compassion for these men than they have for themselves.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Choral (2025) Alex Heeney It’s gorgeous to look at, with Ralph Fiennes giving yet another magnetic performance. But the way it handles queerness — and race, class, and other marginalized identities — left me asking: is this progress, or just a sanitized version of history?
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Alex Heeney Sentimental Value circles back to themes Trier and Vogt have explored throughout their careers: siblings and parentification, houses as sites of memory and trauma, and the complicated roles that parents play in their children’s lives.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be (2024) Alex Heeney Tasovská’s film is formally ambitious and accomplished — creative nonfiction at its best. She crafts a dynamic narrative through clever sound and pacing despite being built solely on still photographs.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Elementary (2024) Alex Heeney "Keeping her camera at the height of the young students and close to them, Simon immediately helps us forge an empathic connection with the young people. The adults, by contrast, are giants whose top half often doesn’t fit into the frame."
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Annihilation of Fish (1999) Alex Heeney "The new 4K restoration of Charles Burnett’s delightful 1999 late-in-life screwball comedy offers this worthy film a new lease on life, much like its characters...The film’s zany premise gives way to a touching story of two lonely people."
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Nino (2025) Alex Heeney Pauline Loquès’s heartrending feature debut, Nino, beautifully and viscerally captures that strange limbo you enter when you get a serious medical diagnosis, like treatable cancer...Loquès finds a thoughtful cinematic language for Nino’s alienation
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Girl With the Needle (2024) Alex Heeney The world of The Girl with the Needle is a sinister one, where husbands can disappear in the war without a trace, and you can be thrown out of your home or your job with a moment’s notice...one of the year’s hardest watches and also one of its very best.
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
When Fall Is Coming (2024) Alex Heeney François Ozon’s latest confection, When Fall is Coming, is the rare film centred on the perspective of a retired octogenarian, Michelle (the marvelous Hélène Vincent), and her relationship with her grandson (Garlan Erlos).
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Langue Étrangère (2024) Alex Heeney Burger sensitively tackles teenage alienation, mental health, and sexual fluidity with tenderness and a propulsive pace...If it gets a little messy in the latter section, that’s partly by design because it thoughtfully deals with messy issues.
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Quiet Son (2024) Alex Heeney The actors do their best with weak material that never probes too deeply into not just the characters’ psychology but the systems around them that shape their behaviour.
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
This Life of Mine (2024) Alex Heeney Fillières’ hugely witty and very funny film tells Barberie’s story of trying to find a new lease on life with tenderness and aplomb.
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Crocodile Tears (2024) Alex Heeney An impressive debut film from Indonesian filmmaker Tumpal Tampubolon, Crocodile Tears is a horror-inflected story of a too-close relationship between a mother and her adult son...who is trying to break free from her clutches.
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Land (2024) Alex Heeney Collaboratively made with multiple directors, the powerful, urgent, and incisive No Other Land serves as an excellent introduction to the Israeli settler-colonial state in Palestine...The panoply of perspectives...is its greatest strength and weakness.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Alex Heeney Like a lesser Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavendar Hill Mob is lightly class-conscious about the desperation for money in post-war Britain, relies heavily on the immensely talented Guinness’s performance, is queer-coded, and a highly amusing caper.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Shoeshine (1946) Alex Heeney [Shoeshine] is still resonant, humanist, and infuriating today. It’s the story of a friendship torn apart by the cruel and indifferent adult world that cares little for children and less for the challenges of post-war poverty.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
July Rhapsody (2002) Alex Heeney Ann Hui’s July Rhapsody is a melodrama about marital discord with a light touch, where both partners explore other relationships.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Here (2023) Alex Heeney Bas Devos’s exquisite film of urban wanderings...is a quietly feel-good film of existential ponderings and fleeting connections.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Mambar Pierrette (2023) Alex Heeney Like her documentaries, Mambar Pierrette is not just a character portrait but a look at how colonialism continues to affect the lives of everyone in the country in ways big and small.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Green Border (2023) Alex Heeney Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border is an urgent, fiercely political film about the ongoing migrant crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border... [the] film is inherently humanist and weaves a portrait of the complexities of the problem for everyone involved.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) Alex Heeney A brutal and thoughtful critique of how capitalism destroys lives and bodies and then forces us to become complicit in the destruction of others...[Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World] is hugely inventive film as only Jude can deliver.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Music (2023) Alex Heeney Angela Schanelec continues her exploration with loose adaptations of classic texts...Schanelec is an incredible director of bodies in space: she is so attentive to how characters move and are placed within the frame and with respect to each other.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Fancy Dance (2023) Alex Heeney One of the best films at Sundance 2023...Tremblay develops the [central] pair’s background and deep relationship, the importance of family, the land, and Indigenous dance, as well as the challenges of navigating life under settler colonialism.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Challengers (2024) Alex Heeney I’ve spent more time thinking about Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers than most movies...this year...[especially] Josh O’Connor’s scene-stealing performance [which] elevates every scene partner and Luca Guadagnino’s impeccable blocking and directing
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
La Chimera (2023) Alex Heeney [La Chimera] plays like a fairy tale and a bit of a caper, but O’Connor adds depth to this conflicted man who isn’t sure if he wants to start a new chapter of life or stay frozen in his grief.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Nowhere Special (2020) Alex Heeney This warm and tender film that manages to be a feel-good movie, which only occasionally dips into sentimentality amidst the tragic subject matter.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Julie Keeps Quiet (2024) Alex Heeney The film is about coping with what happens when boundaries have been so irreparably breached you don’t even know what is appropriate anymore. Tennis, with its carefully outlined court and rules about what is in and out of bounds, is an excellent metaphor.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Winter in Sokcho (2024) Alex Heeney Japanese-French filmmaker Koya Kamura’s impressive feature debut, Winter in Sokcho, is a story about a place, a young woman’s search for identity and place in the world, and a brief encounter between a visiting French artist and a Korean hotel worker.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
My Father's Daughter (2024) Alex Heeney Egil Pederson’s My Father’s Daughter begins with a sort of Looking for Eric premise before expanding into a very thoughtful, often funny, coming-of-ager about the search for identity and the impossibility of ever really finding it.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
A Missing Part (2024) Alex Heeney This sensitively made feature from Senez is a character study about a father who isn’t allowed to be a father, an unjust system that won’t allow joint custody, and the people caught within it.
Posted Oct 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Slow (2023) Lindsay Pugh Slow is a tender, crushing film about two people in love who struggle to make their relationship work. Elena and Dovydas are instantly smitten with each other but run into a roadblock when Dovydas clarifies that he’s asexual.
Posted Jul 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) Alex Heeney The film’s conceit — [it] takes place in Grand Theft Auto gameplay – feels like a re-tread of 2022’s We Met in Virtual Reality...Although a neat idea, the film raises interesting questions that it never fully explores.
Posted Jul 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Silent Trees (2024) Alex Heeney It’s a moving story, but its adherence to a similar structure as Flee makes it feel like a story we’ve heard. I’m glad to see more and more of these refugee stories.
Posted Jul 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Pelikan Blue (2024) Alex Heeney Like Flee, the animation in Pelikan Blue anonymizes the forgers and their customers while also bringing us into the memories rather than merely listening to the documentary-recorded voices.
Posted Jul 07, 2024  Edit critic review
The Devil's Bath (2024) Lena Wilson Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s harrowing new drama makes their previous chillers, Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge, look like episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
Posted Jul 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Lena Wilson You’d be justified in thinking that leads Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian are headed for a bad romance. They are. They’re also impeccable players in a wry, drug-fueled thriller where the obsessive rush of first love is the real narcotic.
Posted May 02, 2024  Edit critic review
The Old Oak (2023) Alex Heeney "If The Old Oak is, as Loach has been threatening, really Loach’s final film, it will be a strong summation of his work: a film about community and solidarity in places you wouldn’t expect from people who can barely care for themselves."
Posted May 01, 2024  Edit critic review
I Don't Know Who You Are (2023) Alex Heeney "I Don’t Know Who You Are, the first feature film from M. H. Murray, does for access to PEP what Never Rarely Sometimes Always did for abortion access."
Posted May 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Humane (2024) Alex Heeney "By presenting us with heroes we can’t care about and a de facto villain who is the only character with a pulse in the film, Cronenberg keeps a film about a politically charged topic apolitical and hard to invest in."
Posted May 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Along Came Love (2023) Alex Heeney Although Along Came Love has some major flaws, it’s a well-directed, well-acted piece that I’m glad I could see...Quilléveré is more successful in her story of Madeleine (Demoustier), perhaps because it’s the story closest to her.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
All Your Faces (2023) Alex Heeney The plot of All Your Faces is schematic and mostly predictable, and you can feel the gears clicking into place. But Henry compensates for this with well-written, complex characters and excellent performances.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Out of Season (2024) Alex Heeney Stéphane Brizé’s latest entry in his cinema of sad, desperate men (The Measure of a Man, At War), Out of Season, is a lovely little film about a depressed actor, Mathieu. who temporarily rekindles an old flame while decompressing at a spa in Quiberon.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
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