It's a worthy subject but I wish the interviewing was better

| Apr 7, 2025

Sugarcane succeeds on every level...

| Original Score: 19.5/20 | Feb 12, 2025

I think that familial, personal connection allows Sugarcane to go to the dark places in which these types of journalistic exposés aren't often able to go. You need a ton of trust to go on-the-record and revisit a nightmare.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 17, 2025

This is a big subject, but this film succeeds by making it very personal, especially the very emotional personal cost of what happened at this school. The attempts to confront the past include a number of churches burned by those angry about this issue.

| Original Score: A | Jan 16, 2025

The film is constructed with a sense of understanding and urgency, at times with a western aesthetic...[Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2025

Stunning in every sense of the word, the new documentary film explores the lasting pain caused by a culture of silence in the Catholic church.

| Jan 13, 2025

Often difficult, always respectful, and reflecting personal histories through their communal connection, Sugarcane is a masterful documentary that comes upon the heels of a major period of reflection in Canadian society.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 9, 2025

It’s not the easiest to watch, but it’s a compelling documentary.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 8, 2025

Unforget­table storytelling and a compas­sionate testament to resiliency.

| Jan 3, 2025

Intimately shot and beautifully assembled, the film skilfully captures the mix of traditions and modern realities for North America's indigenous peoples. This is a stunner of a documentary; it's urgent, moving and essential.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2024

Everyone who wants to understand the history of North America should watch this documentary and then look into their local history. The findings are heartbreaking. The repercussions, hard to measure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2024

Kassie and NoiseCat marry rigour with compassion, giving the survivors the platform to talk while understanding that some things are too hard to put into words.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 23, 2024

With its blend of documentary styles and its skilful journalistic structure, this is a difficult but remarkably clear-eyed film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2024

The atrocities perpetuated upon Canada's indigenous is yet another stain on a Catholic Church which has covered up the sexual crimes of priests around the world and allowed the abuse and deaths of single women in Ireland's notorious Magdalene Laundries.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 26, 2024

It defies more traditional documentary techniques. There are conversations rather than interviews. There is reporting, but no hard findings. It never flinches from horror, but it also knows how to find wonder.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 30, 2024

The damaged, rising community depicted in Sugarland are in no mood for apologies. They want accountability.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2024

It’s a remarkably courageous and exposed work, particularly for co-director Julian Brave NoiseCat and his father, Ed Archie NoiseCat, whose painful journey together in search of healing is the film’s spine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2024

A standout documentary about resilience and pride in the face of evil.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 19, 2024

Deeply disquieting and indeed enraging.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

The emotional scars of abuse and neglect continue in the present, and that makes Sugarcane an ongoing and essential story...

| Sep 18, 2024