Critics list

Kevin Ritchie

Kevin Ritchie's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer^® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

Publications:

NOW Toronto

The Boy From Medellín (2020)

75%

2/5

EDIT

“It’s a beautiful-looking film that captures the intensity of a particular moment, but it ultimately boils a collective uprising down to a personal existential crisis that is not particularly revealing.” –

NOW Toronto

Mar 29, 2022

Full Review

The Disciple (2020)

96%

4/5

EDIT

“The director’s understated approach allows the performance scenes to advance the story on a philosophical and emotional level that makes The Disciple ever more absorbing as it progresses.” –

NOW Toronto

Mar 29, 2022

Full Review

In the Same Breath (2021)

96%

4/5

EDIT

“In The Same Breath is among a handful of recent documentaries examining the Wuhan outbreak, but Wang stands out for her ability to tell a big-picture story through intimate scenes of working people forced into difficult choices...” –

NOW Toronto

May 1, 2021

Full Review

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

99%

5/5

EDIT

“Essential viewing for music fans.” –

NOW Toronto

May 1, 2021

Full Review

Mau (2021)

61%

2/5

EDIT

“Film about the world-famous Canadian designer takes a while to go from perfunctory to fascinating...” –

NOW Toronto

May 1, 2021

Full Review

Held (2020)

39%

1/5

EDIT

“If you want to sit through a bad marriage movie, you can do so much better.” –

NOW Toronto

Apr 10, 2021

Full Review

Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)

80%

EDIT

“...a surreal, whimsical odyssey through a lovingly rendered Paris...” –

NOW Toronto

Mar 23, 2021

Full Review

Wojnarowicz (2020)

97%

3/5

EDIT

“What's most interesting is how McKim softens Wojnarowicz, capturing his vulnerability, playfulness and tenderness, but also how those sides of him informed the unwavering resolve and honesty he is often remembered for.” –

NOW Toronto

Mar 23, 2021

Full Review

Tina (2021)

92%

3/5

EDIT

“Ultimately, Tina benefits from time and distance.” –

NOW Toronto

Mar 20, 2021

Full Review

Notturno (2020)

82%

3/5

EDIT

“Ultimately it's an ambitious view of war and places we don't often see; where seemingly nothing is happening and yet so much is swirling beneath the surface - or just out of frame.” –

NOW Toronto

Mar 9, 2021

Full Review

The Mauritanian (2021)

75%

3/5

EDIT

“Macdonald keeps the story moving, and his actors all clearly believe in the project...” –

NOW Toronto

Mar 9, 2021

Full Review

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell (2021)

78%

3/5

EDIT

“Biggie still remains elusive in some respects, but this doc goes beyond the mythology to show how his trajectory to fame straddled overlapping worlds, and how the specifics of his life informed his singular sound.” –

NOW Toronto

Mar 9, 2021

Full Review

Mayor (2020)

100%

4/5

EDIT

“Osit doesn't push his subject, instead the director contrasts sometimes dryly funny day-to-day bureaucratic machinations with extraordinary events to give viewers a weighty sense of the existential.” –

NOW Toronto

Dec 8, 2020

Full Review

Pieces of a Woman (2020)

76%

3/5

EDIT

“Mundruczó's English-language melodrama is unpredictable - and that's the point.” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 14, 2020

Full Review

Matthias & Maxime (2019)

63%

3/5

EDIT

“Men who struggle to be vulnerable is a big theme in cinema lately (Ad Astra being a major example), but Matthias & Maxime goes deeper than most - even if it fumbles, albeit fittingly, toward its conclusion.” –

NOW Toronto

Oct 10, 2019

Full Review

Freedom (2019)

71%

4/5

EDIT

“What's shocking about Liberté is that its documentary-like images are actually more banal given that breaking taboos, extreme porn imagery and trolling have been par for the course for a while now.” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 11, 2019

Full Review

The Truth (2019)

87%

3/5

EDIT

“The Truth is frequently rescued by the lived-in rapport between its formidable leads, who must fend off Kore-ada's attempts at steering The Truth toward cloying sentimentality.” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 11, 2019

Full Review

Martin Eden (2019)

88%

4/5

EDIT

“Martin Eden does what few artists or commentators care to do: attempt to grasp, rather than capitalize on, the fraught humanity and circumstances that lead to self-defeating political ideologies.” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 11, 2019

Full Review

Desert One (2019)

88%

2/5

EDIT

“...the standard talking-heads-and-news-clips execution puts the whole story at a remove, as though Kopple is expecting us to watch her movie on a screen in the kitchen while we're doing something else.” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 11, 2019

Full Review

The Wild Goose Lake (2019)

91%

3/5

EDIT

“The director's polished aesthetic effectively accentuates both Wild Goose Lake's subtle and pointed symbolic elements, but is less successful in underscoring the emotional lives of his paralleled lead characters.” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 10, 2019

Full Review

Zombi Child (2019)

85%

3/5

EDIT

“Zombi Child is suspenseful and watchable thanks to impressively sublime uses of lighting and colour, a contrast between earnest teen girl romantic fantasy and arch humour and bursts of pop music...” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 10, 2019

Full Review

Varda by Agnès (2019)

98%

4/5

EDIT

“Though already being called a "eulogy," Varda By Agnès is less a celebration than a passing on of wisdom.” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 9, 2019

Full Review

The Twentieth Century (2019)

95%

4/5

EDIT

“The Winnipeg filmmaker's crafty, nightmarish and Dadaist revision of William Lyon Mackenzie King's formative years completely skewers Canadian political mythology and the gendered, classist and colonial tenets it's based on.” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 9, 2019

Full Review

Synonymes (2018)

87%

4/5

EDIT

“This film can feel hyper-specific and referential, but the way the director flips the standard migration narrative (an angry white male settler flees the violent nationalism that benefits him) should resonate broadly.” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 9, 2019

Full Review

Seberg (2019)

36%

2/5

EDIT

“Seberg's story is hugely dramatic, infuriating and timely - well worth a screen adaptation - but we only get superficial insights into its subject, her cinematic accomplishments, the experiences that shaped her politics and the movements she aligned with.” –

NOW Toronto

Sep 9, 2019

Full Review

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