Nitram: Acclaimed Fact-Based Drama on Australian Tragedy Soars on Riveting Performances
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekDrama, fact based drama, Australia, Nitram, Shaun Grant, Justin Kurzel, Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Anthony LaPaglia, Essie Davis, Sean Keenan
Peace by Chocolate: A Sweet, Light Confection About a Real-Life Refugee Success Story
Stanleyville: Odd Directorial Debut Like an Episode of Survivor… Only Weirder and Less Fun
ReviewJim SlotekStanleyville, Canadian feature debut, Drama, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Julian Riching, Susanne Wuest, Adam Brown, Christian Serritiello, George Tchortov, Cara Ricketts
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Saving the universes, one trope at a time
Hot Docs ‘22: Even More Brief Encounters With the Best Told Real-Life Stories on the Planet
By Original-Cin Staff
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ReviewJim SlotekHot Docs 2022, Attica, Relative, SAM NOW, Sexual Healing, Shabu, documentary, Film Festival, Documentary Film Festival, My Two Voices
Children of Sin: Bible-Thumping Horror We've Seen Before
Memory: Liam Neeson plays a hitman with memory problems, in another forgettable thriller
Hot Docs ‘22: More Brief Encounters With the Best Told Real-Life Stories on the Planet
By Original-Cin Staff
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ReviewJim SlotekDon't Come Searching, Hot Docs 2022, Framing Agnes, I Didn't See You There, Make People Better, My Old School, Navalny, The Art of Silence, The Exiles, The Killing of a Journalist, We Feed People
Hot Docs '22: Brief Encounters With the Best-Told, Real-Life Stories on the Planet
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs 2022, A House Made of Splinters, Beautiful Scars, Bernie Langile Wants To Know What Happened To Bernie Langile, Blue Island, Delikado, Million Dollar Pigeons, Scrap, Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children
The Sadness: Not Technically a Zombie Movie, But Gory Enough For Greatness
A Taste of Hunger: Film about Restauranteurs Fraying Over Elusive Michelin Star Could Use More Salt
By Karen Gordon
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Hot Docs '22: Our Picks for the World’s Biggest & Best Documentary Film Festival
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs, Hot Docs 2022, Batata, Category: Woman, The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks, Attica, SAM NOW, Relative, We Feed People, Million Dolla Pigeons, Make People Better, Framing Agnes, The Killing of a Journalist, Into the Weeds, Still Working 9 to 5, How Saba Kept Singing
Navalny: Portrait of an Enemy of Tyranny, and the Unraveling of a Political Poisoning
The Automat: A Warm Memory of a Dining Concept that Defined a Century of American Culture
By Karen Gordon
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Hit The Road: An Iranian Family Road Trip Movie With A Deft Touch
ReviewJim SlotekHit The Road, Iranian film, Panah Panahi, Hasan Majuni, Pantea Panahiha, Amin Simiar, Rayan Sarlak, Abbas Kiarostami, Road trip, Drama, Family
The Northman: Robert Eggers and his Marquee Cast Go for Full-On Viking Glory
By Karen Gordon
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The Nicolas Cage Experience Goes Meta
ReviewJim SlotekNicolas Cage, Sean Penn, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Meta movies, Actors playing themselves, Jean-Claude Van Damme, JCVD, Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz, Tom Gormican
Paris, 13th District: The Complexity of 'Uncomplicated' Sex, Buoyed by Formidable Scripting
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekParis, 13th District., Movies about casual sex, Jacques Audiard, Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Noémie Merlant, Movies based on graphic novels, Adrian Tomine, Céline Sciamma, Léa Mysius
Islands: A Filipino-Canadian Film About Taking Care
Marlene: The Muddled Melodrama of The Woman Behind Steven Truscott
