Agnieszka Holland’s Charlatan tells the story of Czech herbalist and healer Jan Mikolášek to draw parallels with post-war communism.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Sophie Dupuis explores masculinity in a Quebec mine in Souterrain
Sophie Dupuis’s second film, Souterrain, is a thoughtful exploration of the emotional lives of men working in a Quebec mine.
Education Review: Small Axe ends on a note of bittersweet hope
Education, the final film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, explores systemic racism in the British schooling system and the West Indian women who organised to combat it.
Helicopter parenting reaches new extremes in Chasing Childhood
In Margaret Munzer Loeb and Eden Wurmfeld’s documentary Chasing Childhood, American parents navigate how much freedom to give their children.
Anne Fontaine’s psychological drama Night Shift (Police)
Night Shift looks at the inner lives of three police officers who take the night shift together. The film screens at Cinemania across Canada on Nov 22. Tickets are available here.
Antoinette dans les Cévennes is a showcase for Laure Calamy
Caroline Vignal’s Antoinette dans les Cévennes is a mid-life coming-of-age comedy starring the great Laure Calamy.