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Whatever investigation it's attempting, the movie is leaden in its pacing - the first 15 minutes feel like an hour - and its constricted shooting style, practically all hand-held almost close-ups, is transparent in its contrivance of realism. Feb 16, 2017 | Full Review…
Whatever investigation it's attempting, the movie is leaden in its pacing - the first 15 minutes feel like an hour - and its constricted shooting style, practically all hand-held almost close-ups, is transparent in its contrivance of realism.
Glenn Kenny
Radwanski creates a visceral, impossible-to-ignore document of one man's fraught reality. It is creative, bold and even dangerous filmmaking. Aug 12, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Radwanski creates a visceral, impossible-to-ignore document of one man's fraught reality. It is creative, bold and even dangerous filmmaking.
Barry Hertz
[A] drama that watches what happens when adolescence ignores the calendar. Aug 11, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
[A] drama that watches what happens when adolescence ignores the calendar.
Peter Howell
The pic burrows into a style as oppressively confining as its subject's view of marriage. Aug 11, 2016 | Full Review…
The pic burrows into a style as oppressively confining as its subject's view of marriage.
John DeFore
In his tale of repressed game-addicted dad Erwin (Erwin Van Cotthem), Radwanski looks not for a simple tabloid scapegoat, but digs deeper into what drives a middle-aged, middle-class man to near-paralysing regression. Aug 25, 2018 | Full Review…
In his tale of repressed game-addicted dad Erwin (Erwin Van Cotthem), Radwanski looks not for a simple tabloid scapegoat, but digs deeper into what drives a middle-aged, middle-class man to near-paralysing regression.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
In just two features and several shorts, co-conceived with producing partner Dan Montgomery, Radwanski has proven himself a gentler, Southern Ontarian answer to Dardennes-style social realism. Nov 13, 2017 | Full Review…
In just two features and several shorts, co-conceived with producing partner Dan Montgomery, Radwanski has proven himself a gentler, Southern Ontarian answer to Dardennes-style social realism.
Angelo Muredda
Canadian director Kazik Radwanski's sophomore feature How Heavy This Hammer is a sympathetic yet unsentimental portrait of contemporary masculinity in crisis. Aug 14, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Canadian director Kazik Radwanski's sophomore feature How Heavy This Hammer is a sympathetic yet unsentimental portrait of contemporary masculinity in crisis.
Mary Angela Rowe
At only two feature films, Toronto-based writer-director Kazik Radwanski has already formed a clear thematic through line. Aug 11, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
At only two feature films, Toronto-based writer-director Kazik Radwanski has already formed a clear thematic through line.
Ethan Vestby
Radwanski's depiction of Erwin's ordinariness is so concentrated and intense to the point that we're led to see nothing but ourselves in his predicament. Aug 11, 2016 | Rating: Recommended | Full Review…
Radwanski's depiction of Erwin's ordinariness is so concentrated and intense to the point that we're led to see nothing but ourselves in his predicament.
Ian Barr
How Heavy This Hammer seems to be driven sincerely by human compassion and curiosity, and firmly establishes Radwanski as one of Canada's best working filmmakers. Aug 11, 2016 | Full Review…
How Heavy This Hammer seems to be driven sincerely by human compassion and curiosity, and firmly establishes Radwanski as one of Canada's best working filmmakers.
Adam Cook
Only by being fully immersed in Erwin's world can we root for him to find his way out. Aug 11, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Only by being fully immersed in Erwin's world can we root for him to find his way out.
Norman Wilner
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