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Barry Hertz

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Lorne (2026) 67% EDIT “Perhaps realizing that his subject isn’t much of a talker, the director deploys a number of framing devices to the doc to enliven things, though many fall flat.” – Globe and Mail Apr 15, 2026 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 97% EDIT “The Christophers finds director Steven Soderbergh continuing his insatiable journey of cinematic exploration, and seemingly having the time of his life.” – Globe and Mail Apr 15, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% EDIT “Goldhaber, whose previous film was the highly charged 2023 eco-minded docu-heist thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline, has managed again to use the entertainment-first hallmarks of genre filmmaking to tap into the nervous energy of the moment. ” – Globe and Mail Apr 15, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 92% EDIT “The concept might work for especially patient gamers, but rendered cinematically by director Genki Kawamura, the result is a frustrating and ultimately boring exercise in audience endurance.” – Globe and Mail Apr 15, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 78% EDIT “There is some drama here, all right. But the curtain can’t draw down soon enough.” – Globe and Mail Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Agatha's Almanac (2025) EDIT “Blessedly, it avoids the too-crisp digital sheen of contemporary docs, with the director enlisting cinematographer Rhayne Vermette to capture Agatha on 16mm film, the images so gritty in texture and saturated in colour that they feel unearthed.” – Globe and Mail Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Silver Screamers (2025) 90% EDIT “The resulting drama, while perhaps predictable in an American Movie meets Cocoon kind of way, is still awfully sweet and warmhearted. ” – Globe and Mail Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Dead Lover (2025) 86% EDIT “If you want to walk away from a film with its particular aroma still sticking to your clothes, then set a date in stone for Dead Lover.” – Globe and Mail Apr 1, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 43% EDIT “Whereas a cosmic beast like Cthulhu or Azathoth at least possess all-knowing knowledge in addition to their sanity-breaking powers of terror, a horror like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie retains no vaguely redeeming qualities.” – Globe and Mail Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) 89% EDIT “Even when there are contextual blind spots, such as the film’s too-brief look at the environmental effects of AI data centres, the information that is here is all packaged in a highly entertaining manner.” – Globe and Mail Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Alpha (2025) 58% EDIT “Alpha will have either strapped you into the mercy seat, ready to face your final days, or left you itching to escape. Either way, you’ll feel more alive than you have in ages.” – Globe and Mail Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Nika & Madison (2025) 100% EDIT “A Canadian spin on Thelma & Louise, the ambitious new drama Nika & Madison has all the fiery spirit of its made-in-Hollywood inspiration, if not quite the narrative dynamism and endless resources.” – Globe and Mail Mar 19, 2026 Full Review The Things You Kill (2025) 94% EDIT “In its bold aesthetic courage and rigid thematic spine, Khatami’s movie is a full-body experience that leaves you fully alive.” – Globe and Mail Mar 19, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 73% EDIT “While writer-director Ian Tuason’s feature debut boasts an eyebrow-raising -- or rather, ear-twitching –--concept, the movie never quite manages to turn up the volume loud enough to drown out the skeptics.” – Globe and Mail Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% EDIT “It goes, in other words, where plenty of men have gone before. The good news, again, is that the film moves so impressively fast that you won’t mind much of anything. ” – Globe and Mail Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Hair of the Bear (2025) EDIT “Hair of the Bear never fully realizes its potential at the same time that it fails to escapes its own self-imposed limitations.” – Globe and Mail Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Youngblood (2025) 65% EDIT “For a game of fire and ice, this new Youngblood feels decidedly lukewarm.” – Globe and Mail Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Sweetness (2025) 90% EDIT “A movie that is half locked-room thriller, half enjoyably bitter coming-of-age drama, Higgins’s film zeroes in on what can happen when young people grow up in an environment that encourages, even rewards obsession.” – Globe and Mail Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 58% EDIT “The Bride! is the kind of big-budget swing that everybody in Hollywood secretly wishes that they could make, too.” – Globe and Mail Mar 5, 2026 Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 99% EDIT “Shot entirely in the director’s home country with a largely amateur, untrained cast, the film blends a striking sense of street-level realism, political commentary and poetic nostalgia for the naive innocence of youth.” – Globe and Mail Feb 26, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 43% EDIT “How to Make a Killing is a Rian Johnson-lite concoction that is neither all that funny nor moderately twisty, the entire affair landing too close to its title and feeling, simply, DOA.” – Globe and Mail Feb 23, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 82% EDIT “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is neither lucky nor fun ... although it might make you want to play dead for at least a few minutes.” – Globe and Mail Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% EDIT “It will steal you away for an evening, but you can’t retire on it.” – Globe and Mail Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 58% EDIT “No amount of meticulously composed shots trained on aspic-entombed prawns or freakishly large glazed strawberries can distract from the gaping holes in absolutely everything else on the screen, including its frequently drenched stars.” – Globe and Mail Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% EDIT “Even the most Netflix-gagged romcom fan will realize that Lighton’s film is exactly the shot in the arm the genre needed. May we all live so happily ever after.” – Globe and Mail Feb 10, 2026 Full Review
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