I loved the way it uses expressionist tropes and subverted thing...a little bit Monty Python...

| Feb 25, 2021

Finally, the film dissolves in silliness and whimsy, but not before it's given us some surreal spectacle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2021

It ends up being a smashingly good and goofball history of the non-world of Canadian history and flim-flammery, deeply committed to its own colonial crazy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2020

"The Twentieth Century" lacks the demented, all-encompassing artistic vision of a Maddin movie... but it's a welcome diversion and Rankin's send-up of Great White North Great-Man pieties is at times inexplicably hilarious.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 26, 2020

At a time when normalcy has routinely backflipped into a pool of insanity, The Twentieth Century makes perfectly perverse sense.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 20, 2020

These performances and several others resonate against Dany Boivin's sets like echoes, and that cohesiveness allows "The Twentieth Century" to achieve a degree of centrifugal force that holds your attention even after your eyes glaze over.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 20, 2020

Rankin has given a rare, precious gift to fringe-trawlers starved for the next worthy cult film, its sick salaciousness supported by substance.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 20, 2020

[O]ne of the more vivid and amusing excursions in a year marked by unclassifiable realities and the need for diverting art.

| Nov 20, 2020

An exuberant feat of visual design, it's meticulously weird and full of rambunctious humor.

| Nov 19, 2020

Even without prior knowledge of our neighbor to the north, it can be enjoyed for its combination of supreme creativity, jaw-dropping audacity and amusing tongue-in-cheek dialogue.

| Mar 7, 2020

The jokes are often ridiculous, as is pretty much everything else that happens, but there's a palpable energy and visual inventiveness on display that keeps things watchable

| Sep 27, 2019

Take those Canadian history books, pile them up with maple-tree bark and set them ablaze.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2019

A killer ensemble featuring Sean Cullen, Sarianne Cormier and Louis Negin rounds out this bizarrely beautiful biopic for a history lesson you'll never forget.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 7, 2019