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Alex Heeney / February 23, 2024

The 20 best films of 2023

Alex Heeney reflects back on the best films of 2023.

Alex Heeney / February 1, 2024

Film Review: Martha Coolidge’s Not a Pretty Picture

Martha Coolidge excavates her sexual assault in her creative nonfiction film Not a Pretty Picture, recently restored in 4K by Janus Films.

Alex Heeney / November 1, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s creative nonfiction documentary Pictures of Ghosts is an ode to the public and private spaces where we live our lives and how they hold our memories.

Alex Heeney / July 14, 2023

The 17 best films of 2023 so far

Alex Heeney reflects back on the 17 best films at the 2023 so far

Alex Heeney / May 2, 2023

Visions du Réel Review: Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski’s In Ukraine

Tomasz Wolski’s observational documentary In Ukraine is the best and most harrowing film I’ve seen about the Ukraine War because it focuses on the banal.

Alex Heeney / April 27, 2023

Visions du Réel & HotDocs Review: Erik Gandini’s After Work

Erik Gandini works with documentary images and sounds as if he’s making a musical in his creative nonfiction film After Work, a look at varying attitudes to work around the world.

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