REVIEW: A Woman Like Me
A Woman Like Me is one of the most freeing and cathartic experiences a filmmaker could ever make about death.
REVIEW: Listen to Me Marlon
Stevan Riley's Listen to Me Marlon is an acutely intimate film that wants us to experience his subject’s many dimensions.
REVIEW: Love Between the Covers
Laurie Kahn’s Love Between the Covers plays as a celebration of the often-maligned world of romance fiction.
REVIEW: The Nightmare
Rodney Ascher's The Nightmare is a not-so-terrifying follow-up to Room 237, and ultimately one of the festival's disappointments.
REVIEW: What Happened, Miss Simone?
What Happened, Miss Simone? is a fascinating study of a music icon and is one of Liz Garbus’s best documentaries.
REVIEW: From This Day Forward
From This Day Forward succeeds as a contemporary telling of self-acceptance, unpacking family resentments, and enduring spousal love.
REVIEW: Exotica, Erotica, Etc.
Erotica, Exotica, Etc. is an expressionistic meditation on the sea, the men who work it, and the women who love those men.
REVIEW: Over the Rainbow
Over The Rainbow is a heartwarming, it’s-never-too-late, portrait of Leny, a Dutch woman who discovered her sexual identity at 68.
REVIEW: Danny
In Danny, William D. MacGillivray and Justin Simms offer a rousing portrait of former Newfoundland premiere Danny Williams.
REVIEW: Stay Awhile / Home Cooked Music
Jessica Edwards' portrait of The Bells, Stay Awhile, and Mike Maryniuk's animated Home Cooked Music bring two musical portraits to Hot Docs.