The Falls (2012)
“If the film suffers from some uneven performances, Nick Ferruci hits every right note as Elder Smith, especially when he uses compassion and humour to leverage a human response out of his starchier and more nervous companion.” –
Georgia Straight
Oct 23, 2024
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Grand Unified Theory (2016)
“... this Theory really works because Ray obviously loves his characters and, sure enough, so do we.” –
Georgia Straight
Dec 22, 2020
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Tapeworm (2019)
86%
“Tapeworm's deadpan tone is the real attraction here, climaxing with a cosmically cruel punch line...” –
Georgia Straight
Oct 8, 2020
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The Lodge (2019)
75%
“Where The Lodge succeeds is in its patient atmosphere-building and downer psychedelic style, delivering neatly staged and effective shocks.” –
Georgia Straight
Mar 4, 2020
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Come to Daddy (2019)
87%
“A fabulously entertaining comic thriller poised somewhere between Alfred Hitchcock and vintage John Waters.” –
Georgia Straight
Feb 6, 2020
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Rabid (2019)
55%
“Outlandish fun, with lashings of gore and extravagantly disgusting practical effects compensating for the ripe dialogue and Mackenzie Gray's camped-out performance.” –
Georgia Straight
Jan 30, 2020
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Color Out of Space (2019)
86%
“An uncaged Cage is no deal-breaker, and the suggestion that Lavinia's bad magic is responsible for drawing down the magenta-hued visitor from space gives the film an emotional weight that eventually pays off.” –
Georgia Straight
Jan 23, 2020
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Watergate (2018)
78%
“The sordid tale is a deftly structured true-crime saga, with writer-director Charles Ferguson narrating.” –
Georgia Straight
Jul 31, 2019
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Melody Makers (2016)
78%
“Although a tad threadbare in the talking-head department (here comes Eric Burdon, again), this cheerful history of the British music weekly Melody Maker has enough inside dope to maintain interest.” –
Georgia Straight
Jul 30, 2019
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Peterloo (2018)
67%
“When that climax comes, helped along by a hasty reading of the riot act, ale for the troops, and the provocateuring of Home Office spies, Peterloo explodes into epic cinema-and epic rage.” –
Georgia Straight
Jul 24, 2019
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Nightmare Cinema (2018)
77%
“Starts with it strongest short and ends with its weakest.” –
Georgia Straight
Jun 12, 2019
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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2018)
92%
“There's so much here to recommend.” –
Georgia Straight
May 9, 2019
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
91%
“Few 20th century artists lived more completely in the process, and Stanley Nelson's film, brimming with fabulous footage, doesn't fail to impart that crucial aspect of the story.” –
Georgia Straight
May 8, 2019
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Dark Suns (2018)
100%
“Shot in luminous black-and-white and edited to perfection, this 154-minute Canadian production might be the definitive take on the subject.” –
Georgia Straight
May 6, 2019
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Gods of Molenbeek (Aatos ja Amine) (2019)
“A crisp and absorbing doc from Reetta Huhtanen.” –
Georgia Straight
May 4, 2019
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Dive: Rituals in Water (2019)
“This isn't the most information-dense of movies, given its 72-minute running time, but every one of those minutes is a joy.” –
Georgia Straight
May 3, 2019
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“Those of us tuned to the very tiny subgenre of docs about the death industry will find this contemplative piece closer to 1979's haunting Des Morts than, say, the mondo autopsy porn of Death Scenes.” –
Georgia Straight
Apr 27, 2019
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Amazing Grace (2018)
99%
“Mosco Levi Boucault's film is absorbing and unfussy, flashes of wit aside.” –
Georgia Straight
Apr 27, 2019
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Roar (1981)
72%
“Such unusual challenges rob the film of its coherency at times, but so what? Who's going to tear their eyes away from that big, beautiful cat?” –
Georgia Straight
Apr 26, 2019
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Buddy (2018)
96%
“This amounts to about 90 minutes of going "Awwww..."” –
Georgia Straight
Apr 25, 2019
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Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (2017)
93%
“Its greatest achievement is the way Hagazussa becomes more powerfully hallucinatory and yet more bluntly real as it unfolds.” –
Georgia Straight
Apr 25, 2019
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“This is a beautiful film: modest, warm, and unflashy in all ways, not counting its sometimes startling photography.” –
Georgia Straight
Apr 4, 2019
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Mia and the White Lion (2018)
88%
“Mia and the White Lion is loaded with such unforgettable moments, constituting perhaps the cat video to end all cat videos.” –
Georgia Straight
Apr 4, 2019
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Diamantino (2018)
87%
“Here's a movie very satisfied with its own zaniness.” –
Georgia Straight
Apr 3, 2019
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Giant Little Ones (2018)
93%
“It's all so beautifully executed that we can forgive certain narrative conveniences.” –
Georgia Straight
Mar 28, 2019
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