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Reviews: Moneyball – Physical Release

May 28, 2026

Final Rating: 5/5 Blu-Ray Recommendation: Recommend How can you not be romantic about baseball? Moneyball is a 2011 film, directed by Bennett Miller, chronicling…

Reviews: Best Boy

May 27, 2026

Final Rating: 3.5/5 Best Boy is a darkly comic story of familial turmoil from director and screenwriter Jesse Noah Klein. After their father’s (Dylan…

Reviews: 2026 Hot Docs Round Up – Part 3

May 25, 2026

In four stories that span the globe, individuals and entire societies face down four different challenges to their continued right to self-determination – whether…

Reviews: Gimme Truth from Hot Docs 2026

May 22, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 In today’s digital age where everyone can be connected in an instant, find communities for anything regardless how niche it might…

Reviews: 2026 Hot Docs Round Up – Part 2

May 15, 2026

Children of War (in 5 Films) – a Hot Docs 2026 Round-Up As the world grapples with wars raging around the globe, filmmakers capture…

Reviews: Hex from Hot Docs 2026

May 14, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 Hex follows the Norwegian feminist black metal band Witch Club Satan through their earliest days of touring leading up to the…

Reviews: This Above All: The Theatrical Life of Antoni Cimolino from Hot Docs 2026

May 13, 2026

Final Rating: 2/5 The Stratford Festival debuted back in 1953 as a way for a local journalist, Tom Patterson, to help the flailing community…

Reviews: The Tower That Built A City from Hot Docs 2026

May 12, 2026

Final Rating: 2/5 A new documentary argues that Toronto owes much of its status as a cultural centre to the CN Tower. The Tower…

Reviews: Omaha

May 11, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 The best thing about Cole Webley’s Omaha is how few questions it answers. In an age when films are so beholden…

Reviews: Myspace from Hot Docs 2026

May 9, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 Early in the documentary Myspace, directed by Tommy Avallone, one of the most interesting questions gets posed to some of the…