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This time last year, I was at the Berlin International Film Festival presenting the international premiere of my latest feature,
Anne at 13,000 ft. Looking at photos of that sold-out cinema now feels like glimpsing a distant past or even a dream. In our present moment, an audience of 1,000 people gathered to see a movie together has become the stuff of fantasy. Our plan after the festival was to fly back to Canada and release the film across the country. We were hoping for many more nights like that one in Berlin. Little did we know that it would be the last
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including reviews of Judas And The Black Messiah, Cowboys, The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things and Saint Maud By Norman Wilner
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of February 12. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Judas And The Black Messiah
(Shaka- King)
In less skilful hands, Judas And The Black Messiah could play like hollow Oscar bait, a tragedy of Black lives manipulated by cynical white authority in a less enlightened time. Instead, director/co-writer King’s powerhouse drama about the complicity of FBI informant William O’Neal in the 1969 murder of Black Panthers community organizer Fred Hampton keeps subtly drawing parallels to the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement, showing us how little has changed in the ensuing half-century. The film has a nervous, contemporary feel, every scene carrying an immediacy that threatens to punch through the period setting. And t
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The Toronto Film Critics Association has given “Nomadland” three of its top awards, including best picture of 2020.
The organization also named Chloe Zhao best director and Frances McDormand best actress for the touching drama, about a community of nomads living in vans in the American west.
The TFCA announced the winners of the 24th annual awards via Twitter Sunday, and will hold a virtual gala live on YouTube on March 9.