film reviews

‘The Inconvenient Indian’ at 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

October 6, 2020 By Bill Meyer

The jury that awarded the 90-minute film Best Canadian Feature described it as “a deeply thought-provoking and scorching indictment” of the treatment of First Nation people.

Review: ‘Crip Camp,’ an inspiring flick on the struggles of the disabled

August 13, 2020 By John Bachtell

As so, the fight for full equality for people with disabilities continues.

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]

June 25, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.

[Spoiler-free] Review: ‘Da 5 Bloods’ reclaims narrative of Black soldiers in Vietnam

June 25, 2020 By Al Neal

If, as a civilian observer, you find it important to experience the realities and complexities of war and racism, then Spike Lee’s latest film Da 5 Bloods is required watching.

‘The Ascent’: 1970s Soviet film affirms deeply human values in dangerous times

June 10, 2020 By David Fields

The Ascent is not the type of movie you would expect about World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as it was known in the Soviet Union where the film was made.