By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta turns her attention to another director in Searching for Ingmar Bergman, offering an engaging and often insightful portrait of the late Swedish master as a filmmaker, an artist and a father. An accomplished auteur in her own right, who was inspired by Bergman’s work… Read More Review: Searching for Ingmar Bergman

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Being a tribute artist can be a lucrative and demanding business, even if your fame largely comes from pretending to be someone else. That’s the main takeaway of Almost Almost Famous, a fairly entertaining documentary that follows a group of classic rock impersonators who are on tour together… Read More Review: Almost Almost Famous

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) From ending up in someone’s engagement photos, to serving drinks at a bar, and even doing the dishes at a random house party, there are a lot of urban legends that exist on the internet about encounters that random people have had with Bill Murray. Colloquially known as… Read More Review: The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Gaining fame as a champion weightlifter and bodybuilder, and also serving in the US Marines, Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski was seen as a symbol of stereotypical masculinity, and came across as a classic “strong man.” But Matt always felt there was something different about himself, which he tried to keep… Read More Review: Transformer

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by her longtime friend Steve Loveridge, and featuring a wealth of her own personal videos alongside concert footage, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. is an engaging and often exciting look at the life and career of the socially conscious Tamil hip hop star M.I.A., and the controversies that she has courted.… Read More Review: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Filmmaker Bing Liu returns to his hometown of Rockford, Illinois in his remarkably powerful documentary Minding the Gap, to tell the stories of himself and two other young guys who all grew up together skateboarding around the city. There’s Zack Mulligan, who is struggling to come to terms with… Read More Review: Minding the Gap

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) How did America get to the point in 2016 where the ubiquitous businessman turned realty show star Donald Trump was able to win the presidency? This is the basic question fuelling Michael Moore’s latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9, a sometimes engaging but mostly frustrating and ultimately overly simplistic and… Read More Review: Fahrenheit 11/9

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) An excellent portrait of the late comic superstar Gilda Radner, Love, Gilda is a documentary that strikes just the right balance between being funny and moving. The film takes us through the entirety of her career, from her early start in the star-studded Toronto production of Godspell, to her big break… Read More Review: Love, Gilda

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A disappointingly shallow followup of sorts to her excellent 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, Generation Wealth finds photographer and documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield painting a much broader portrait of the destruction that can be caused by affluence and greed in modern society. The film serves as a… Read More Review: Generation Wealth

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) What if the rise and fall of Elvis Presley could be seen as a microcosm of America itself, symbolizing nothing less than the birth and death of the American Dream? This is the basic concept behind The King, a damn near stunning new documentary from director Eugene Jarecki,… Read More Review: The King

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When the 19-year-old Bobby arrived at college in 1980, he was treated like a familiar face, despite the fact that he didn’t know anyone. As it turns out, they had mistaken him for Eddy, an identical twin that he never knew existed. The story of these two long… Read More Review: Three Identical Strangers

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The Carlyle has seen its share of famous guests over the years, ranging from actors and rock stars to politicians and royalty, and now the famous New York City hotel is the centre of attention in Matthew Miele’s glossy new documentary Always at the Carlyle. Situated in the… Read More Review: Always at the Carlyle

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) An ambitious mix of documentary and narrative storytelling, American Animals recounts the true story of four average young guys from middle class suburbia who plotted to steal original editions of books by John Audubon and Charles Darwin from a college library in Lexington, Kentuckey. It’s bored college student… Read More Review: American Animals

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) While social media sites like Facebook and Twitter sell themselves as being open for anyone to post anything, they in reality all have strict guidelines that are heavily enforced by anonymous content moderators. The majority of the work these “cleaners” do is outsourced to other countries like the… Read More Review: The Cleaners

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Directed by Morgan Neville, following his Oscar-winning 20 Feet from Stardom and the excellent Best of Enemies, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? looks at the life and career of Fred Rogers, the unlikely star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. With his soft voice and gentle way of speaking, Fred Rogers had a true knack for… Read More Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Focusing on the 2015 trial of Oskar Gröning, a former SS guard who served as a bookkeeper at Auschwitz and was put on trial in Germany at 94 years old for his involvement in the Holocaust, The Accountant of Auschwitz is a fascinating and multilayered documentary. Facing charges for the murder of… Read More Review: The Accountant of Auschwitz

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest from Toronto filmmaker Maya Gallus, The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution focuses on a selection of female chefs in Toronto, New York, London and France who are fighting for equal representation in the restaurant business. The chefs talk about their experiences as women in what is still largely seen as a… Read More Review: The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution