Before we pass through a door that will lead us into a new chapter of our lives, we often glance back to reflect on what we’re leaving behind. Last week, I gave an earnest overview
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Critic’s Choice: TOP 5 FOR 2023
Sometimes it feels like I chart the course of my whole year via the movies. My calendar is marked by film festivals (DOXA, VIFF), major releases (Super Mario, Barbenheimer), retrospective film showings (Showa Godzilla at
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Critic’s Choice: Top 5 of (*Sigh*) 2020
Interesting, unexpected and catastrophic are all words you could use to describe the opening salvo of the new ’20s. The COVID-19 pandemic has proved particularly difficult to the film industry where the near-universal shutdown of
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Critic’s Choice: Top 5 of 2019
As we wrap up the last decade before the roaring 20s return, I found myself with an even longer list of quality titles to choose from making my task of narrowing down a Top 5
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My Top 5 Canadian Actresses
Since the publication of my personal list of Canada’s Top 5 Actors last week, I had been pondering my follow-up list of Canada’s Top 5 Actresses, quickly realising that choices this time around would not
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Critic’s Choice: My Top 5 of 2018
It was only a year ago that I was asked to join the team here at Hollywood North Magazine. Up until that point, my film criticism largely consisted of capsule film reviews that I would
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