Levack carefully plants the seeds of her film’s serious turn throughout, so that when "I Like Movies" steers hard into its coming-of-age rough patch, the tonal shift feels natural.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 25, 2025

An undiscovered Canadian gem, if you've ever felt or remember feeling of outsider awkwardness, this story mines the emotional gold therein. With a nod to A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, writer/director Levack, actor Lehtinen & the supporting cast brings it home.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 12, 2025

A sharp, touching film which earnestly highlights the highs and lows that emerge when one makes cinema such a prominent part of their personality during those formative, socially awkward teenage years.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 21, 2024

A combination of Superbad, Clerks and Licorice Pizza that’s also not only, as the title suggests, catnip for those who love to flout their film knowledge and opinions, but also a look back at what it was like to be an awkward suburban teen in 2002.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2024

Affable, genial and so, so kind, the kindly take on potential cringe you’d expect from a young Canadian filmmaker... Indie cinema lives and thrives. Honesty rocks. Passion rules.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

Has a terrific understanding of how change happens, respecting what’s often a hard and painful process with an uncommon willingness to break through illusions.

| Original Score: B+ | May 12, 2024

Simultaneously a love letter and a critique of the artform we all love, I Like Movies is for anyone who’s ever lost themselves in the silver screen.

| May 7, 2024

I Like Movies speaks clearly to those who’ve erected protective walls of pop cultural passion, without sacrificing the prickly parts that make its observations so sharp.

| Original Score: 7.0/10 | Apr 18, 2024

It’s enough to restore one’s faith in the near-extinct subgenre once known as the teen comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 23, 2023

A solid, if slightly pedestrian, indie comedy-drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2023

[It] starts out as a goofy teen movie and would have been perfectly watchable if it had stuck with that tone. But midway through, Levack's movie [plunges] into darker territory as it locates the source of Lawrence's anger, and is all the better for it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2023

I Like Movies is bittersweet, funny, sad, and ultimately kind. You’d be a curmudgeon to not like this movie.

| Sep 6, 2023

Through some very effective quirky deadpan humour, and endearing performances from both Lehtinen and D’Ugo, I Like Movies manages to strum all the right cords in a truly unique celebration of cinema itself.

| Aug 25, 2023

It rests solely on Levack’s sharp and poignant script and fantastic performances by Lehtinen and D’ugo.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jun 27, 2023

Sweet without being saccharine, humorous while still having plenty of its heart, and painful without losing its playfulness, it is a quietly truthful triumph of independent film. Eat your heart out, Blockbuster.

| May 15, 2023

The film reeks of independent flair -- in a good way -- from early, current-millennium vibes to a committed cast of unknown players, headed by young Isaiah Lehtinen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2023

I Like Movies works because there is talent all through it.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 14, 2023

It authenticates catharsis through the fantastical world of cinema while giving us a vital lesson in the real-world toxicity that can feed into that culture. I Like Movies is a pitch-perfect coming-of-age story.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 13, 2023

A heart-tugging, film-loving smartypants with a wicked tongue rules! The character study, tell-all and comedy-drama seems fun ‘n’ games to start but develops complexity and emotional power. Terrific stuff!

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 10, 2023

Feels like a tribute to the kind of passion for film which it addresses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2023