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Guy Dixon

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Globe and Mail writer.

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Ship of Theseus (2012) 95% 3/4 EDIT “An intellectual, contemplative film, although its occasional tendency to take its abstract ideas on the nature of self-identity and wrap them into neat plot twists can mildly disappoint.” – Globe and Mail Jan 9, 2017 Full Review War Witch (2012) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Rebelle is full of such careful detail, and is carried so beautifully by Mwanza's performance, that questions of authenticity slide away.” – Globe and Mail Sep 21, 2012 Full Review Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) 98% 3/4 EDIT “He may still seem enigmatic, but we don't need to know his deepest thoughts. The intensity of his daily life and the persecution he continues to face is more than enough to understand who he is and what he is enduring.” – Globe and Mail Jul 26, 2012 Full Review Town of Runners (2012) 86% 3/4 EDIT “The documentary, a must-see for any runner looking for inspiration, only skirts the reasons why the town of Bekoji seems to provide such an advantage to its young athletes.” – Globe and Mail Jun 29, 2012 Full Review Flamenco, Flamenco (2010) 79% 3.5/4 EDIT “Simply captures 21 brief, masterful flamenco performances.” – Globe and Mail Jun 29, 2012 Full Review Patang (2011) 56% 3.5/4 EDIT “Using a documentary-like style, the film is India as if captured by Instagram.” – Globe and Mail Jun 22, 2012 Full Review In the Family (2011) 96% 2.5/4 EDIT “As Wang holds us in rapt attention, not only with his steady pacing, but with the hard realism of the screenplay, the characters retain a coldness that never breaks.” – Globe and Mail Jun 1, 2012 Full Review Indie Game: The Movie (2011) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “This is about developers communicating with the world in the most creative, productive way they know how. It's about the artistic process.” – Globe and Mail May 25, 2012 Full Review The Vanishing Spring Light (2011) EDIT “The people on camera seem stunned by the rapid change around them, yet have a far-old wisdom deep within them. It's just that most of the people in all of these films have trouble expressing that.” – Globe and Mail Apr 6, 2012 Full Review The Guantanamo Trap (2011) 3.5/4 EDIT “The Guantanamo Trap not only makes for terrific documentary cinema; it does a tremendous journalistic service.” – Globe and Mail Mar 30, 2012 Full Review The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011) 68% 3/4 EDIT “It's rare for a documentary style to match its subject so ideally.” – Globe and Mail Mar 16, 2012 Full Review Necrosis (2009) 2/4 EDIT “” – Globe and Mail Feb 24, 2012 Full Review 2/4 EDIT “The film depends more on the shadowy, colour-drenched photography to touch on emotions or humanism. It's not enough.” – Globe and Mail Feb 24, 2012 Full Review The Swell Season (2011) 78% 3/4 EDIT “The Swell Season wins the documentary prize for beating viewers over the head with gentleness, with the duo accentuated in rich, photographic chiaroscuro.” – Globe and Mail Jan 13, 2012 Full Review Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011) 95% 3/4 EDIT “What makes him such an interesting biographic sketch for a film, however, is the way Goodman undercut his own successes.” – Globe and Mail Dec 9, 2011 Full Review Inni (2011) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “The music of Iceland's Sigur Ros fills the cinema, as if reverberating off the walls of some darkly beautiful fjord.” – Globe and Mail Oct 28, 2011 Full Review Wiebo's War (2011) 3/4 EDIT “The documentary shows Ludwig's strong clarity of thought, which nevertheless remains somewhat enigmatic to the listener.” – Globe and Mail Oct 21, 2011 Full Review Pearl Jam Twenty (2011) 68% 3/4 EDIT “With its intimacy and (this can't be emphasized enough) fantastic sound, Pearl Jam Twenty is like two hours spent rediscovering the band through excellent headphones.” – Globe and Mail Sep 23, 2011 Full Review Café de Flore (2011) 63% 3.5/4 EDIT “Simply a beautiful, intricate film.” – Globe and Mail Sep 13, 2011 Full Review Pina (2011) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “Using 3-D in as ungimmicky a way as possible, Wenders wants simply to immerse viewers in the dance, with all its physicality, protruding collar bones and earthy colours.” – Globe and Mail Sep 13, 2011 Full Review Ghost Bird (2009) 91% 3/4 EDIT “An unassuming, clear-headed documentary about the hope that heaven and Earth may have actually produced a miracle, at least this time around, and allowed a species back from extinction.” – Globe and Mail Aug 5, 2011 Full Review The National Parks Project (2011) 100% 3/4 EDIT “The collection clearly aims to be a totemic statement, a link between Canada's thriving indie-arts culture and the land, to commemorate the centenary of the country's national parks service.” – Globe and Mail May 20, 2011 Full Review Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) 72% 2.5/4 EDIT “The problem is that the film, despite an attempt to examine the intellectual pollution of pervasive marketing, can't help coming off as one big smirk.” – Globe and Mail May 6, 2011 Full Review A Drummer's Dream (2010) 3/4 EDIT “It's pure emotion.” – Globe and Mail Nov 5, 2010 Full Review Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) 96% 3/4 EDIT “A historic, invaluable film.” – Globe and Mail Sep 18, 2010 Full Review
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