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Reviews: Missing From Toronto Japanese Film Festival 2024

June 19, 2024

Miu, the daughter of Saori and Yutaka has been missing for six months. Every day, the couple spend their time after work distributing flyers in the town square.

Reviews: The Acolyte

June 5, 2024

The Acolyte spends a lot of its time trying to build a mystery in its story but it doesn’t allow much time for those mysteries to simmer.

Reviews: SIFF Documentary Round Up – Part 2

May 30, 2024

In this batch of capsule reviews from the Seattle International FIlm Festival, we’ve chosen to focus on two documentaries.

Blog: A Collection of Canadian Screen Award Reviews

May 29, 2024

Covering and supporting Canadian film is a core tenet of Contra Zoom. Check out the collected reviews of CSA nominated films.

Reviews: SIFF Documentary Round Up – Part 1

May 27, 2024

In this batch of capsule reviews from the Seattle International FIlm Festival, we’ve chosen to focus on two documentaries.

Reviews: Madame Web – Physical Release

May 24, 2024

Even at its worst, Madame Web is fascinating. The choices are almost uniformly bad, but in interesting ways that inspire more reflection.

Reviews: river

May 23, 2024

In River, the inhabitants of a small inn in the Japanese countryside suddenly find themselves in a time loop, River restricts the loop to two minutes.

Reviews: Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox from SIFF 2024

May 22, 2024

Tim Travers creates a time machine, and a paradox when he steps through the machine over and over again creating many Tim’s.

Reviews: Hitchcock’s Pro-Nazi Film from SIFF 2024

May 20, 2024

Hitchcock’s Pro-Nazi Film looks at whether or not the esteemed director’s 1944 film Lifeboat was helping the war effort or potentially aiding the enemy.

Reviews: Ru

May 17, 2024

Ru follows the tale of Tinh, who with her family is one of many “boat people” from Southern Vietnam that relocate to Quebec.