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 Shalini Kantayya previously explored the racial biases of algorithms in her documentary Coded Bias. Now she returns with TikTok, Boom., which explores… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: TikTok, Boom.
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. The documentary Girl Gang opens with images of a packed crowd of young girls waiting for a celebrity appearance at the mall. Security… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Girl Gang
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. Pleistocene Park is the name of the property in remote Siberia where eccentric Russian geophysicist Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita are trying… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Pleistocene Park
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
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 ASD Band is a musical group made up of guitarist and vocalist Jackson Begley, lead singer Rawan Tuffaha, drummer Spenser Murray, and… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Okay! (The ASD Band Film)
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 Cathryne Czubek’s documentary Once Upon a Time in Uganda takes us behind the scenes of Wakaliwood, the low-budget, high-spirited action movie studio… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Once Upon a Time in Uganda
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. Who knew racing pigeons was such a lucrative sport? Director Gavin Fitzgerald’s documentary Million Dollar Pigeons takes us into the increasingly competitive world… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Million Dollar Pigeons
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 Stacey Tenenbaum’s documentary Scrap opens in White, Georgia, which is the site of Old Car City. Known as the world’s oldest… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Scrap
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. Back in 2018, filmmaker Jackie Torrens premiered her short film Bernie Langille Wants to Know Who Killed Bernie Langille at Hot Docs,… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille
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. Swedish filmmaker Magnus Gertten’s new documentary Nelly & Nadine reveals the unlikely love story between Nadine Hwang, the Spanish-born daughter of a Chinese… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Nelly & Nadine
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