Freeland, of course, is a tour de force showcase for Fairchild — an overnight sensation several decades in the making.

| May 15, 2023

It's pretty easy to overcome these flaws when you have a central performance as good as Fairchild's. The type of work that, if it had more eyeballs, would be considered for any and every award, she is masterful as Devi.

| Dec 16, 2021

It's painful what we see - memories of a happy past, the acute awareness of a dark present and the fear of an unknown future.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 28, 2021

A film had to be made about how greed on the state-level regulatory level destroyed the most creative marijuana ecosystem in history.Freelandis that movie.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 20, 2021

Directors Mario Furloni and Kate McLean definitely capture the beauty of Northern California, and how idyllic it can be to essentially make a living off your land.

| Nov 19, 2021

Though the script is weak, the performance by Krisha Fairchild is a shout out to all stoners to continue to pass the joint around.

| Original Score: B | Nov 18, 2021

Fairchild is magnificent, and the cinematography is absolutely staggering.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 18, 2021

Fairchild commands the screen [and] her downfall is heartbreaking to observe, all the more so as Furloni and McLean contextualize it as the last gasp of a long diminished counter-culture dream.

| Oct 29, 2021

Engrossing, lyrical and poignant with a radiant, tour de force performance by Krisha Fairchild.

| Original Score: 8.73284/10 | Oct 16, 2021

A contemplative film that manages to whisk the audience away to an unfamiliar land whose off-the-grid survival you can't help but root for.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2021

Freeland has precious little dialogue, so Fairchild conveys her unspoken inner feelings using only her face and eyes. In this she excels, radiating calm, outrage, despair, and melancholic memories.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2021

Though it takes a peculiar turn into thriller territory in its third act, the movie gains propulsion as it moves along, aided by Devi's stone-faced determination to survive changing circumstances on her own terms.

| Original Score: B | Oct 14, 2021

A beautifully made debut feature about a generation of Californians who are being left behind by progress.

| Oct 13, 2021

Writer-director Mario Furloni and Kate McLean evince a masterful grasp of storytelling that's subtle and rich in innuendo.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 12, 2021

Krisha Fairchild takes every new development and plot direction as an acting challenge to be crushed

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2021

The reminder in 'Freeland' of the individual human cost of social progress is empathetic, prescient and needed.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 11, 2021

It's not okay, Boomer.

| Oct 19, 2020

A really empathetic look at a life left behind.

| Oct 13, 2020

Freeland becomes an intriguing look at a culture for which we're familiar impacting an industry of which many are not.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 13, 2020

An interesting look into the pot business from a unique perspective

| Aug 12, 2020