Oh, Canada

"In dramatic terms, the past is clearly in some way being challenged, upended, undermined. But this challenge is not suspenseful or enlightening, resulting merely in cloudiness (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" 

[It] presents a dying artist’s final testimony as a multifaceted film-within-a-film, honoring Banks while also revealing so many of Schrader’s own thoughts on mortality" 

"Amid the formal fluidity, the forceful acting keeps us hooked (...) DoP Andrew Wonder and editor Benjamin Rodriguez Jr adeptly ring the changes on tones, textures and period styles" 

"For a film about big themes like mortality, memory, truth and redemption, 'Oh, Canada' feels both slight and stubbornly page-bound, too unsatisfyingly fleshed out to give its actors meat to chew on" 

"While 'Oh, Canada' has moments of mordant humor, its ultimate mode is the elegiac (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)" 

"It is narratively bleak, it’s stylistically quite light on its feet, almost airy. The constant cutting among timelines gives the 91 minute picture a pleasant momentum" 

"[It] is unwieldy and sometimes hamfisted, including a closing music cue that will have you rolling your eyes. And yet it’s hard to look away from how Schrader has taken his most beautiful troubled hero in Gere and forced him to wither away"