...what we get is a relationship handled with grace, humor and sexiness. On the surface, this may appear to be a fetish film, but really, it's a coming-of-age love story.

| Jun 30, 2020

...there's something lacking at Gerontophilia's core.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 7, 2015

This is a comedy that encourages viewers to be impulsive, and pointedly seek love and acceptance outside of "normal" social institutions, especially when it comes to family and romance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2015

Mr. Borden, an acclaimed Canadian stage actor and playwright, turns in a slyly entertaining performance. But the relationship between Lake and Melvyn feels a bit more one-sided than perhaps was intended.

| Apr 30, 2015

Gerontophilia is rather reminiscent of a student film, and I don't mean that it has the fire of youth. It is restrained by a rank amateurism that borders on embarrassing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2015

There are the makings of a poignant Harold and Maude-style drama here, but the movie is so amateurish and eager to be shocking, it just winds up feeling creepy.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 29, 2015

Katie Boland is ... a force of nature as Lake's feminist ex - who gets off on reciting the names of her favorite female revolutionaries. But neither she nor Borden can mitigate this film's ultimately creepy premise.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 28, 2015

LaBruce ... [is] angling either for tragedy or an arch jab at the coldness of sexual conquest. I only wish he had let his conceit ripen long enough for us to tell.

| Apr 28, 2015

Better camerawork and a lower gross-out factor than usual seem to have taken the oomph out of bad boy Bruce LaBruce, whose Gerontophilia sports a great title and a funny opening before going all limp.

| Apr 27, 2015

This tonally uncertain romance is both surprisingly conventional and tame.

| Apr 27, 2015

The film surfs smoothly on good vibes and lulling moods; Borden, a majestic presence, deserves sterner stuff to wrangle with.

| Apr 27, 2015

It chooses the delicateness of a fable instead of the narrative recklessness we've come to expect from Bruce La Bruce.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 26, 2015

The cast does a good job at playing it straight; Walter Borden is surprisingly tender as the catty octogenarian who steals the young man's heart.

| Sep 18, 2014

The film seems to be about the wrong character.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2014

Gerontophilia is a simple romance and a rather sweet one if you can get your head around a handsome young man and an old duffer swooning and spooning.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 3, 2014

While Gerontophilia hints at serious issues in the way we treat our senior citizens, it keeps things light-hearted, with the high camp of Lake's über-feminist girlfriend and his alcoholic mother providing the laughs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2014