I Am Greta is part of the problem it portrays
Nathan Grossman’s I Am Greta about teen climate activist Greta Thunberg tells the story of the girl behind the figurehead but fails to take an interest in what matters most to her.
Food is the language of love in Coming Home Again
Wayne Wang’s Coming Home Again is a heartfelt story of a first generation Korean-American grieving as he takes care of his mother as she dies of cancer.
On the Rocks is a retrograde disappointment from Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola’s latest, On the Rocks, is a vague and out of touch depiction of a working mother’s relationship crisis.
ImagineNative 2020 highlights great Indigenous films
The 2020 ImagineNative Film Festival is entirely online this year, and highlights include: Monkey Beach, Inconvenient Indian, and shorts like Lichen and Becoming Nakuset.
Shadow of Dumont: A road trip through familial Indigenous history
Trevor Cameron takes a road trip through the history of his great-great-uncle, Gabriel Dumont, in his documentary Shadow of Dumont.
Mangrove and Ultraviolence are two angles on UK police brutality
Films about police brutality in the UK are sorely lacking, but this year’s London Film Festival gave us two: Ken Fero’s mishandled Ultraviolence and Steve McQueen’s brilliant Mangrove.
