CIUT Critics Circle

Critics's Circle March 22, 2025

Interviews this week:
Daniel Garber is interviewing Toronto Filmmaker Ingrid Veninger about her latest movie/doc/reality showCrocodile Eyes, about birth, life, and death inher family, having its world premiere at CFF.
Reviews this week:
Lynn is reviewing Inside American Pie at the CAA Theatre.
Daniel is reviewing 3 films this week:
The Players is about a 15-year-old girl (in the 1990s) who joins a cult-like theatre group.
To the Moon East is a comedy about an exec and his daughter who move to the suburbs.
Skeet is a drama about an ex-con trying to go the straight and narrow in a rough Saint Johns neighborhood.
 
 
 

March 15, 2025 Critics' Circle

Critics' Circle March 8, 2025

Interviews this week:
Daniel Garber is interviewing Ann Marie Fleming in Vancouver about her new film Can I Get a Witness?
Reviews this week:
Lynn is reviewing Fat Ham at Canadian Stage, at the Berkeley Street Theatre.
Daniel is reviewing 3 films this week:
Bergers (Shepherds), directed by Sophie Deraspas. A Montreal advertising copywriter leaves his profession to be a shepherd in Provence.
Seven Veils, directed by Atom Egoyan. A young director tries to remount an opera production created by her former mentor.
Night of the Zoopocalypse, directed by Ricardo Curtis, Rodrigo Perez-Castro. A meteor lands on a zoo, turning some of the animals into zombies.
 

Critics' Circle March 1, 2025

Interviews this week:
Lynn Slotkin is interviewing Rena Polley the Artistic Director of The Chekhov Collective and director of the reading of A Doctor’s Visit, by Chekhov.
Reviews this week:
Lynn is reviewing Hypothetical Baby at Factory Theatre.
Daniel is reviewing 2 films opening this weekend for Black History Month:
My Dead Friend Zoe, a war vet suffering from PTSD is haunted by her best friend.
 
Exhibiting Forgiveness, a successful artist deals with his abusive, addicted father.
 

Critics' Circle February 22, 2025

Critics' Circle February 15, 2025

Critics' Circle February 8, 2025

Interviews this week:
Lynn Slotkin is interviewing Cliff Cardinal, the creator of CliffCardinal's CBC Special; HUFF and As You Like It or the LandAcknowledgement. 
Daniel is interviewing Toshi Aoyagi from the Japan Foundation about the upcoming series Cinema Kabuki.
Reviews this week:
Lynn is reviewing KIM'S CONVENIENCE.
Daniel is reviewing 3 films:
Love Hurts, an action movie about a gangster turned real estate agent.
 
Bring them Down, a revenge drama about rival shepherds in rural Ireland.
 
Dark Nuns, a Korean Catholic nuns fight satanic possession.
 

Critics' Circle February 1, 2025

Critics' Circle January 25, 2025 (Amended)

Critics' Circle January 18, 2025