Degrassi: Whatever It Takes is a masterful documentary without an opinion that quietly exposes 35 years of child exploitation. For any kid whose childhood was shaped by Degrassi, you should watch this documentary with some Gravol by your side because the disgusting...
In this deeply uncomfortable film, Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins) is broke, in massive debt, has a problem with alcohol and is about to have his home (with deep generational history) foreclosed. His problems seem to go away when a suspicious man named Anniston Bennet...
Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery, directed by Ally Pankiw, is a film that will bring you to your knees, praying for a time machine to take you back to 1997. Opening with Sarah McLachlan’s most nostalgic hit, audiences are transported to a pocket in time that feels too...
Adulthood, directed by Alex Winter and starring Josh Gad and Kaya Scodelario, is a film that hilariously oscillates between suburban family crisis and sheer chaos. Winter refuses the audience any comforts of moral clarity; instead, he takes you into the day-to-day...
Directed by Benny Safdie, The Smashing Machine reimagines the life of MMA fighter Mark Kerr in a way that reframes his life beyond punches and wins. Starring Dwayne Johnson as the legendary fighter, we understand Kerr as a man under immense pressure to be perfect, not...
Just in time for spooky season, Rian Johnson delivers another chapter in the best franchise in Hollywood. This time, we are gifted with a gothic tale of morality and a meditation on the power of hate speech. This film is certainly the darkest out of the three, and it...
Directed by Idris Elba, Dust to Dreams has more heart than narrative precision, which is exactly what I would hope for in such a complex story. The story begins with Millicent (Nse Ikpe-Etim), the owner of a vibrant nightclub in Lagos. She is ill and reaching the end...
In Honey Bunch, directors Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli take viewers on one hell of a messy and mind-bending ride. The film follows married couple, Diana (Grace Glowicki) and Homer (Ben Petrie), on what seems to be a medical retreat to heal Diana’s leg...
In one of the most important films of the year, Annemarie Jacir offers a raw and heartbreaking portrait of the early foundations of the illegal state of Israel. For those reading who do not know, no Jewish government ever existed in Palestine before 1948. However,...