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Reviews: The President’s Cake

March 11, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 The vast majority of American kids stand at the start of their school day and say the Pledge of Allegiance to…

Reviews: Sundance Shorts Round Up

March 5, 2026

Sundance 2026 has come and gone with a lot of word of mouth for many of the films screened during the festival. Their virtual…

Reviews: Scarlet

February 4, 2026

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Mamoru Hosoda takes his interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet into the Otherworld, a life after death that offers a wealth of…

Reviews: Paying For It

January 28, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 Ed. note: read our original reviews of Paying For It from TIFF and VIFF. The contrasts in Paying For It start…

Reviews: The Choral

January 7, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 When many of the young men in Yorkshire enlist to fight in World War I, it leaves a lot of vacancies…

Reviews: Meadowlarks

November 25, 2025

In Meadowlarks, four adult indigenous siblings meet for the first time after being victims of the 60’s Scoop in Canada.

Reviews: Heaven – Restoration

November 20, 2025

Heaven, the directorial debut of Diane Keaton, is a documentary asking everyday people their thoughts on the afterlife that originally came out in 1987.