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Barbara Goslawski

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Biography:

Barbara has worked as a freelance writer and film critic for the past 30 years. Her career began as co-host and co-producer for CKLN radio’s film show, Frameline, which now continues as a podcast. She has also contributed to numerous dailies and magazines including The Globe and Mail and TIFF’s Canadian Film Encyclopedia, as well as to several books. A veteran of the Canadian film industry, Barbara has worked in many key areas including distribution and programming and has also served on various festival juries.

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The Alto Knights (2025) 40% 5/10 “Robert De Niro is a force of nature, even in the worst of films.” – Exclaim! Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Thank You Very Much (2023) 90% “Mostly, Thank You Very Much serves as a fitting tribute to Andy Kaufman's work. It's fun to reminisce about his wild antics and even more so to realize that the filmmaker may be up to his own. ” – ScreenAnarchy Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Uvalde Mom (2025) “This stirring documentary grows from its singular focus into an investigation of a broken system, a fractured society and the unforeseen consequences of being a media celebrity.” – ScreenAnarchy Mar 31, 2025 Full Review SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (2025) 92% 9/10 “It confirms Sly's legacy will live on through the discussions the film engenders, ensuring our participation in its preservation.” – Exclaim! Mar 4, 2025 Full Review Small Things Like These (2024) 94% 7/10 “There's a quiet but gripping trepidation that lurks beneath the surface.” – Exclaim! Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Cutting Through Rocks (2025) 100% “There’s an alchemy at work that transforms this individual focus into a frightening expression of reality.” – POV Magazine Feb 3, 2025 Full Review Khartoum (2025) 92% “Revelling in its originality, Khartoum becomes a uniquely poignant hybrid documentary about a war-torn nation and its people. ” – POV Magazine Feb 3, 2025 Full Review Beatles '64 (2024) 95% 6/10 “In music, passion overrules reason, and sometimes that's just as important as anything else.” – Exclaim! Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Universal Language (2024) 96% “Already celebrated for his unique brand of cinematic playfulness, Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century) crafts another brilliant blend of wit and formal rigour with his second feature, Universal Language.” – That Shelf Sep 22, 2024 Full Review A Sisters' Tale (2024) “A Sisters’ Tale is one of those intimate docs that can leave a viewer wondering whether they should keep watching. It’s like disturbing a sanctuary. ” – POV Magazine Sep 18, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% “Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Sean Baker’s Anora is a lively tour de force that hits in unexpected ways. The film is many things at once and yet so decisively unified.” – That Shelf Sep 6, 2024 Full Review It Ends With Us (2024) 54% 4/10 “Trauma is not a plot device to dangle around in order to amp up the drama.” – Exclaim! Aug 14, 2024 Full Review Standing Above the Clouds (2020) “Standing Above the Clouds represents a communal act of resistance to forces that are threatening to destroy a cultural way of life.” – POV Magazine Jun 26, 2024 Full Review Life Is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza (2023) “While the film is a chronicle of Jabaly’s determination to both grow as an artist and to share stories of life in the Palestinian territory, Life Is Beautiful moves from a diary film to a statement on the idea of home as an unbreakable bond.” – POV Magazine Jun 26, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% 5/10 “Lanthimos can't be blamed for trying something new — it's just that not all experiments work.” – Exclaim! Jun 26, 2024 Full Review Wicked Little Letters (2023) 80% 6/10 “Wicked Little Letters would've been more interesting if it had just scratched below the surface.” – Exclaim! Apr 4, 2024 Full Review The Promised Land (2023) 97% 8/10 “In its interrogation of civilization versus barbarism, the film provides penetrating insight on the nature of true savagery.” – Exclaim! Apr 4, 2024 Full Review Society of the Snow (2023) 90% 7/10 “Society of the Snow rises above a run-of-the-mill survival story.” – Exclaim! Apr 4, 2024 Full Review Queens (Reinas) (2024) 88% “Reinas is a charming film, a marvel of simplicity, made profound by the director’s subtle cinematic dexterity.” – That Shelf Jan 31, 2024 Full Review In the Land of Brothers (2024) 100% “In The Land Of Brothers is a gripping portrait of resilience amidst intolerable circumstances.” – That Shelf Jan 31, 2024 Full Review Desire Lines (2024) 81% “... unforgettable in the way it mixes personal stories with history to successfully blow apart entrenched assumptions.” – That Shelf Jan 31, 2024 Full Review Black Box Diaries (2024) 98% “Black Box Diaries ultimately interrogates the nature of truth, developing a cogent analysis of the meaning of an action and revealing its consequences.” – POV Magazine Jan 25, 2024 Full Review Frida (2024) 89% “Frida has so many threads going and it is ultimately incapable of tying them together to create any one satisfying point.” – POV Magazine Jan 19, 2024 Full Review The Mother of All Lies (2023) 100% “This filmmaker faces an impossible task, riddled with roadblocks, in which all visual evidence has been destroyed. But El Moudir remains steadfast, ingeniously employing tricks of the cinematic trade.” – POV Magazine Jan 10, 2024 Full Review The Stones and Brian Jones (2023) 92% “Broomfield creates a poignant autobiography of the musician and a competent history of the early days of the band, but the film doesn’t answer claims that even it brings up.” – That Shelf Dec 6, 2023 Full Review
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