Articles by Liam Lacey

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  True or False

  Have documentaries become propaganda in the age of Donald Trump and Fake News?

  Features By Liam Lacey • Published January 20th, 2021

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  Hot Docs Review: ‘Under the Same Sun’

  Under the Same Sun is an oddly irresolute portrait of the Armenian-Azerbaijani ethnic conflice.

  Film Reviews By Liam Lacey • Published June 10th, 2020

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  Hot Docs Review: ‘Don’t Worry, the Doors Will Open’

  Oksana Karpovich’s Don’t Worry, the Doors Will Open is an assured debut.

  Film Reviews By Liam Lacey • Published May 30th, 2020

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  Hot Docs Review: ‘Bulletproof’

  Todd Chandler’s Bulletproof is this year’s winner of Hot Docs’ Emerging International Filmmaker Award.

  Film Reviews By Liam Lacey • Published May 28th, 2020

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  Hot Docs Review: ‘Love & Stuff’

  Love & Stuff has a whiff of navel-gazing home-movie filmmaking.

  Film Reviews By Liam Lacey • Published May 28th, 2020

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  Hot Docs Review: ‘Eddy’s Kingdom’

  Portrait of Eddy Haymour is an oddly chipper story about Canadian provincial government abuse and terrorism.

  Film Reviews By Liam Lacey • Published May 28th, 2020

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  From Kenya with Love and Fear

  Director Sam Soko’s Softie profiles photojournalist and activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi.

  Features By Liam Lacey • Published May 25th, 2020

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  Attack of the Unfinished Zombie Movies

  How do we respond to “lost” films like Shirkers and The Other Side of the Wind? Make docs about them.

  Features By Liam Lacey • Published January 7th, 2020

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  Doc of Ages

  Robbie Roberson and his fellow Band members made brilliant roots rock music, playing as if they were brothers. What happened?

  Features By Liam Lacey • Published August 31st, 2019

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  Review: ‘Advocate’

  Advocate is a lively exercise in documentary advocacy.

  Film Reviews By Liam Lacey • Published April 28th, 2019