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The Thief Collector (2022) Rachel Ho The Thief Collector engages those who are looking to have some fun by playing detective and drawing tenuous conclusions about the Alters, but if you’re looking for something beyond that, this film will have just stolen 90 minutes of your life.
Posted May 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Aki (2025) Rachel Ho Aki almost feels like a declaration from [Darlene] Naponse: Mother Nature will prevail, regardless of how hard we try to take her for all she’s got.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Ghost in the Machine (2026) Victor Stiff Ghost in the Machine calls AI’s viability and morality into question by revealing the toxic source code powering an idealized vision of tomorrow.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Love Apptually (2026) Victor Stiff Love Apptually delivers a thoughtful, poignant, and often incensing look at the collision between technology, capitalism, and modern love.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) Pat Mullen It’s a living archive of a film that observes the ways in which past and present collide in this very specific site of memory.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) Pat Mullen The film radically reflects the fine line between journalism and documentary as Loktev’s observational reportage captures a collective effort to speak the truth.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Tough Old Broads (2026) Pat Mullen Tough Old Broads encourages audiences to see acts big and small as significant contributions to social change.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Silver Screamers (2025) Pat Mullen Silver Screamers finds a novel premise for a documentary. Instead of identifying a story and going out into the field to shoot it, Cisterna creates an opportunity through available funding and centres a documentary on that process.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Lorne (2026) Jason Gorber Even the moments captured during the taping of the show are seen through a unique lens, providing a kind of vérité gaze on the mayhem of doing live television that’s truly welcome.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Speechless (2026) Pat Mullen Fearlessly accepts the challenge that nobody wants to undertake these days: having a conversation.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
It's Dorothy! (2025) Pat Mullen It's Dorothy! beautifully captures the ways in which classic works assume new meanings generation by generation and endure by fuelling the cultural conversation by becoming more accessible to more factions of the audience.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sandbox (2026) Pat Mullen The documentary’s visual style evocatively considers the liminal spaces people navigate in search of new lives.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Ballad of Judas Priest (2026) Jason Gorber Despite all the pomp and silliness, there’s a deep humanity expressed in this telling.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Tower That Built a City (2026) Jason Gorber The film provides an unabashedly celebratory look at the various facets of what it means to live and work in Toronto.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Ceremony (2026) Pat Mullen t’s a thoughtful character study rooted in concerns of the land and its history, driven by the voices of participants with real stakes in the rich cinematic geography it traverses.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
House of Hope (2025) Susan G. Cole House of Hope offers a nuanced portrait of the impact of occupation.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Maintenance Artist (2025) Pat Mullen Maintenance Artist lets audiences explore an oeuvre that’s inherently ephemeral as Ukeles’ art defies the traditional archive.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Saigon Story: Two Shootings in the Forest Kingdom (2026) Rachel Ho It’s the meaningful connections storytellers like Nguyen find that enrich our conversation with history so that we, and our ancestors, may find some sense of peace with the past.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Let Our Mountains Live (2026) Courtney Small Let Our Mountains Live makes it clear that community speaking truth to power is the purest way to stand up to those whose abuse of power often goes unchecked.
Posted May 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Chavela (2017) Pat Mullen Vargas’ biography, like her music, is awfully melancholy. But it’s also told so sincerely and beautifully that one feels joy and admiration in lieu of sadness.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Barbara Forever (2026) Barbara Goslawski By relying so heavily on Hammer’s voice, [O'Connor] allows the artist to tell her own story and to elaborate on her modus operandi. This is a powerful element of the film.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Pat Mullen The AI Doc takes a pragmatic approach to the existential crisis at hand.
Posted Mar 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The King of Color (2025) Pat Mullen For every shade of red that Herbert beams with pride, there’s a Pantone colour to match it.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Runa Simi (2025) Pat Mullen More audiences can now know that "Hakuna Matata" translates to "Hakuchu Munayta" in Quechua. But no matter the language, accessible cinema ain’t no passing craze.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Melania (2026) Pat Mullen There’s no mistaking it: Melania is reputation-saving hokum. But it’s mostly just pathetic.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026) Jason Gorber Provides a welcome showcase of a talent more than deserving of such a stylish, considerate, well-crafted portrait.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Joybubbles (2026) Jason Gorber Unfortunately, while the elements are present for an evocative, engaging, and even entertaining film, Joybubbles itself feels undercooked.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Closure (2026) Pat Mullen The striking cinematography captures the weight of grief the father carries, but there’s something respectful about the level of polish with which Closure presents its tale.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
All About the Money (2026) Jason Gorber Chambers’ tale is most engaging when there’s overt recognition of this paradoxical situation.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Public Access (2026) Pat Mullen Public Access could easily explore beyond the obvious. That’s an inadvertent pitfall of getting stuck in the archives.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
One in a Million (2026) Pat Mullen This deeply moving film asks how one conceives of a homecoming when the very idea of home shatters.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
The Oldest Person in the World (2026) Jason Gorber Despite literally being a film about life and death, The Oldest Person in the World feels slight at best and trivial at its worst.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Jaripeo (2026) Pat Mullen It defies traditional containers of cinematic expression.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Broken English (2025) Jason Gorber Beautifully shot, musically rich, ambitiously framed in a way that miraculously avoids being pretentious or pompous, Broken English is a film that should inspire even if one doesn’t care about a single note played.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (2026) Pat Mullen Aanikoobijigan testifies to the necessity of laying these bones to rest.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Troublemaker (2026) Jason Gorber Troublemaker feels like the start of a reconciliation between the myth and the man.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
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Cookie Queens (2026) Jason Gorber Delicious. An exceptional work that’s greater than its ingredients, sandwiching politics, commerce, and the joys of childhood all into one package.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Soul Patrol (2026) Courtney Small A moving and captivating work, Soul Patrol honours those whose legacy and sacrifice should never be forgotten.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
(undefined) Courtney Small Kikuyu Land is effective in speaking loudly against the corruption it observes, but it struggles with deciphering whose story needs to be heard most.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lake (2026) Pat Mullen From the very first visuals of The Lake, it’s impossible not to feel compelled to learn about the problem and any solutions.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Silenced (2026) Pat Mullen 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  Edit critic review
Time and Water (2026) Pat Mullen 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  Edit critic review
Nuisance Bear  (2026) Pat Mullen 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  Edit critic review
Seized (2026) Courtney Small 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  Edit critic review
Birds of War (2026) Courtney Small 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  Edit critic review
To Hold a Mountain (2026) Pat Mullen 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  Edit critic review
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) Jason Gorber 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  Edit critic review
Ghost in the Machine (2026) Jason Gorber 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  Edit critic review
American Doctor (2026) Pat Mullen Riveting...a story of personal and collective action.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Last First: Winter K2 (2026) Jason Gorber 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  Edit critic review
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