Felix van Groenigen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains is about the ebbs and flows of time and the friendship between two unlikely friends over decades.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Falcon Lake explores the threshold between childhood and adolescence
Charlotte Lebon’s feature debut is a sensitive look at a pair of teenagers caught between childhood and adulthood, friendship and romance.
I Used to Be Funny is a thoughtful dramedy about PTSD
Ally Pankiw’s I Used to Be Funny addresses coping with PTSD with a light touch, in this story of a struggling female comic.
Joan Micklin Silver’s Chilly Scenes of Winter and women in the Criterion Collection
Alex Heeney reviews the new Criterion Collection Blu-Ray release of Joan Micklin Silver’s Chilly Sc.enes of Winter
Philippe Faucon’s Les Harkis tackles colonial violence towards Algerian soldiers during the Algerian War of Independence
In Philippe Faucon’s film Les Harkis, set in the final years of the Algerian War of Independence, it’s a losing battle for the Algerian soldiers in the French Army.
Whistler Reviews: Jason James’ Exile and Bruce Miller’s Conviction
Jason James’s feature Exile and Bruce Miller’s short Conviction both tell stories of a previously incarcerated Indigenous man struggling to set himself free.