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Simon Houpt

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Offside: The Harold Ballard Story (2022) EDIT “Offside is a reminder of what reality often actually looks like -- raw, ribald, uncomfortable, unvarnished -- when there are no teams of image consultants ensuring someone doesn’t stray off-brand.” – Globe and Mail Jan 23, 2023 Full Review Totally Under Control (2020) 99% 3/5 EDIT “Do you enjoy watching slow-motion footage of car crashes? Would you like to feel the anxious rush induced by two hours of doomscrolling without actually going on Twitter? Then buckle up for Totally Under Control...” – Globe and Mail Oct 13, 2020 Full Review This Is Not a Movie (2019) 100% 3/4 EDIT “[A] laudatory, engaging profile of [Robert Fisk]...” – Globe and Mail May 20, 2020 Full Review Synonymes (2018) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “[Synonyms] is relentless, brutal, disorienting...” – Globe and Mail Nov 3, 2019 Full Review Mike Wallace Is Here (2019) 95% 2/4 EDIT “Belkin floats the notion that Wallace's sharp-tongued style paved the way for the lying loudmouths who now populate our fractured media landscape, but it feels like a half-hearted bid for contemporary relevance. At least his prickishness had purpose.” – Globe and Mail Aug 7, 2019 Full Review Stockholm (2018) 70% 2/4 EDIT “Budreau asserts a kind of tortured primness, as if chastened by the realization that this all actually happened to real people. And they seem to be having more fun than we are.” – Globe and Mail Apr 12, 2019 Full Review The Hummingbird Project (2018) 57% 3/4 EDIT “And so you will get no Scorsesian tracking shots of firecracker trading floors, no giddy frat boy Champagne-shaking antics; this is a slow-boil thriller coursing with melancholy.” – Globe and Mail Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (2018) 90% 3/4 EDIT “It's naive to blame the current cancerous state of American politics on a single carcinogen, but don't let that stop you from pointing fingers at Roger Ailes.” – Globe and Mail Dec 7, 2018 Full Review Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) 98% EDIT “Blowsy and boozy, Israel is as nubbly as her sweaters, but her longing for human attachment pierces through, up from beneath her own encrusted armour.” – Globe and Mail Oct 26, 2018 Full Review American Chaos (2018) 65% 2/4 EDIT “Would you like to be punched in the face for 90 minutes? Then do I have the film for you!” – Globe and Mail Oct 12, 2018 Full Review Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) 82% 3/4 EDIT “It doesn't all hang together, but its furious, ramshackle energy does the job, and maybe that's all that matters.” – Globe and Mail Sep 10, 2018 Full Review Shoplifters (2018) 99% 4/4 EDIT “Sometimes, the films of the Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda remind me of the novels of Paul Auster, deceptively simple prose that builds slowly into a puzzle piece of quietly explosive force.” – Globe and Mail Sep 7, 2018 Full Review Mouthpiece (2018) 91% 3/4 EDIT “In revealing Cassandra's interior life, Rozema lays bare the modern female condition in an epic battle that is by turns lacerating, soothing and heartbreaking.” – Globe and Mail Sep 7, 2018 Full Review The Grizzlies (2018) 87% 3/4 EDIT “It's a fascinating puzzle: a film that is simultaneously an indictment of the toxic legacy of cultural imperialism and a weepie that employs the familiar tropes of Hollywood, one of the biggest machines of cultural imperialism on the planet.” – Globe and Mail Sep 6, 2018 Full Review The Cleaners (2018) 93% 3/4 EDIT “[A] brisk, disquieting doc...” – Globe and Mail Jun 22, 2018 Full Review Eye on Juliet (2017) 20% 1.5/4 EDIT “Nguyen opts for a mildly ironic tack - all this communication technology, and we're more disconnected than ever - but his earnestness gets the better of him.” – Globe and Mail Apr 20, 2018 Full Review The China Hustle (2017) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “In horror movies, monsters often lose their power to terrify once they come fully into the frame. But as Rothstein reveals the full shape and size of an ogre that has slipped into our financial markets, just try to calm your growing dread.” – Globe and Mail Mar 30, 2018 Full Review The Final Year (2017) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Call it Requiem for a Globalistic Dream.” – Globe and Mail Jan 19, 2018 Full Review American Made (2017) 85% 2.5/4 EDIT “There's an aspirational pleasure in seeing Cruise, now in his mid-50s, jump through these hoops. He knows we prefer him when he shades his easy charm with self-doubt, and Barry has a pleasingly sweaty desperation. But not enough ...” – Globe and Mail Sep 29, 2017 Full Review Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016) 87% 3/4 EDIT “Gere delightfully soft-shoes his way through Norman, surfacing the character's loneliness without unduly exploiting it.” – Globe and Mail Apr 28, 2017 Full Review Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press (2017) 91% 3/4 EDIT “[A] fast-paced, galling narrative of abusive power.” – Globe and Mail Apr 26, 2017 Full Review PACmen (2017) 64% 1/4 EDIT “Mundane if competently made.” – Globe and Mail Apr 26, 2017 Full Review Black Code (2016) 89% 3/4 EDIT “They're seductive, those modern conveniences that connect you to the world - your computer, your phone, your Facebook page - but they betray you at every moment ...” – Globe and Mail Apr 14, 2017 Full Review The Skyjacker's Tale (2016) 63% 2/4 EDIT “Kastner elides key details that might have given viewers a more complex portrait of both the setting and his anti-hero's role in the drama.” – Globe and Mail Jan 20, 2017 Full Review All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016) 93% 3/4 EDIT “It lucidly argues that powerful interests have been creating supercharged fake stories for decades to advance their own nefarious interests. And the institutional media have too often blithely played along.” – Globe and Mail Dec 9, 2016 Full Review
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