By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In his first feature documentary 2nd Chance, filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo) introduces us to Richard Davis,… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: 2nd Chance

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. There is broad scientific consensus that rising carbon emissions are exacerbating climate change, but there is less agreement on what the best alternative… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Atomic Hope – Inside the Pro-Nuclear Movement

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 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. 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 ★★★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 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