Articles – Film Reviews
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Review: ‘Dawson City: Frozen Time’
Anyone with the slightest interest in film history simply must see Dawson City: Frozen Time.
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Review: ‘Little India: Village of Dreams’
Nina Beveridge’s Little India: Village of Dreams shows why Toronto earns the distinction as ‘the most diverse city in the world’.
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Review: ‘In the Name of All Canadians’
The Hot Docs original production In the Name of All Canadians does away with the navel-gazing, backslapping, and self-congratulation of Canada 150 to force the next part of the national conversation.
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Review: ‘The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography’
In The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography, Errol Morris allows his viewers, and himself, to look precisely at the quite different beauty of Polaroid, portrait photography and Elsa Dorfman.
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Review: ‘In Search of Israeli Cuisine’
In Search of Israeli Cuisine tours the kitchens of Israel in an effort to define a national flavour.
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Review: ‘Manifesto’
Cate Blanchett plays a baker’s dozen of characters who perform artistic manifestos in this one-of-a-kind hybrid film.
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Review: ‘The Babushkas of Chernobyl’
Holly Morris and Anne Bogart’s The Babushkas of Chernobyl captures the essence of a small, estranged and exceptionally strong community.
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Review: ‘Things Arab Men Say’
Nisreen Baker’s NFB doc Things Arab Men Say offers a corrective to one-dimensional Arab characters.
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Review: ‘Night School’
Andrew Cohn’s Night School follows three students as they return to class in search of second chances.
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Review: ‘Abacus: Small Enough to Jail’
Steve James finds the ultimate David and Goliath tale of the 2008 financial crisis in Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.
