By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Sam Now is a cinematic documentary that has been 25 years in the making. As kids, director Reed Harkness used to make scrappy… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Sam Now
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Director Sara Taksler’s touching documentary How Saba Kept Singing introduces us to Holocaust survivor David Wisnia. David, whose family affectionately calls him Saba,… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: How Saba Kept Singing
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 28th film in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is simultaneously a direct sequel to the 2016 film Doctor Strange, a followup to the most recent MCU entry Spider-Man: No Way Home, and a continuation of the Disney+ series WandaVision. But,… Read More Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Director Marek Kozakiewicz’s film Silent Love works as a quiet family portrait, but one where the threat of homophobia and the lack of… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Silent Love
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The documentary My Old School wonderfully recounts the story of Brandon Lee, an odd high school student in 1993 who enrolled himself at… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: My Old School
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Filmmaker Barri Cohen’s perception of her happy family was shattered when her father revealed that he had two other children from a previous relationship,… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Despite around half a million people being infected with Lyme disease every year in the United States alone, the tick-borne illness has been… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: The Quiet Epidemic
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In her documentary Hunting in Packs, director Chloe Sosa-Sims follows a trio female politicians across three countries whose views vary across the political… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Hunting in Packs
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Early on in director Andrew Moir’s quietly heartbreaking documentary Don’t Come Searching, main subject Delroy Dunkley sings John Denver’s “Leaving on a… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Don’t Come Searching
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In 1958, a trans woman under the pseudonym Agnes Torres convinced the gender clinic at UCLA that she had been born intersex in… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Framing Agnes
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Director Tracey Arcabasso Smith digs deep into her own personal life and family history in her documentary Relative, weaving a nuanced portrait of… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Relative
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