NOW’s film department has been busy watching selections from Hot Docs 2019. Here’s what we’ve reviewed so far. Keep checking back for more reviews. And remember a >>> sign indicates a critic’s pick.
Always In Season (NNN)
>>> American Factory (NNNNN)
Amussu (NN)
Ask Dr. Ruth (NNN)
Assholes: A Theory (NNN)
Backstage Action (NN)
Beauty And Decay (NNN)
Because We Are Girls (NN)
>>> Bellingcat: Truth In A Post-Truth World (NNNN)
>>> Beloved (NNNN)
Beyond The Visible: Hilma af Klint
Born In Evin (NNN)
>>> Buddy (NNNN)
>>> Campo (NNNN)
The Corporate Coup D’Etat (NNN)
The Daughter Tree (NNN)
Dicktatorship: Macho Made In Italy (NNN)
>>> The Disappearance Of My Mother (NNNN)
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (NNN)
Drag Kids (NNN)
Easy Lessons (NNN)
The Edge Of Democracy (NNN)
>>> The El Duce Tapes (NNNN)
El Toro (NNN)
#Female Pleasure (NNN)
>>> For Sama (NNNN)
Framing John DeLorean (NNN)
>>> Garden, Zoological (NNNN)
>>> Gaza (NNNN)
>>> Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind (NNNN)
>>> The Guardian Of Memory (NNNN)
>>> Haydee And The Flying Fish (NNNN)
>>> Hi, AI (NNNN)
>>> Honeyland (NNNN)
>>> The Hottest August (NNNN)
>>> Human Nature (NNNN)
>>> Illusions Of Control (NNNN)
In My Blood It Runs (NNN)
A Kandahar Away (NNN)
Khartoum Offside (NNN)
>>> Kifaru (NNNN)
>>> Killing Patient Zero (NNNN)
>>> Knock Down The House (NNNNN)
Last Breath (NNN)
>>> Leftover Women (NNNN)
>>> Life Is A Belief (NNNN)
Lord Of The Toys (NNN)
>>> The Magic Life Of V (NNNN)
>>> Maxima (NNNN)
>>> Memory: The Origin Of Alien (NNNN)
>>> Merata: How Mum Decolonised The Screen (NNNN)
>>> Midnight Family (NNNN)
>>> Miles Davis: The Birth Of The Cool (NNNNN)
Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man (NNN)
My Dads, My Moms And Me (NNN)
>>> Nîpawistâmasowin: We Will Stand Up (NNNN)
On The Inside Of A Military Dictatorship (NN)
>>> On The President’s Orders (NNNN)
>>> One Child Nation (NNNN)
Our Godfather (NNN)
>>> Our Dance Of Revolution (NNNN)
Our Time Machine (NNN)
>>> Picture Character (NNNN)
>>> Pipe Dreams (NNNN)
Prey (NNN)
Propaganda: The Art Of Selling Lies (NNN)
>>> Prophecy (NNNN)
>>> A Punk Daydream (NNNN)
>>> Push (NNNN)
Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story (NNN)
>>> Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (NNNN)
>>> The Rest (NNNN)
>>> Seahorse (NNNN)
>>> Seeing Red: Stories Of American Communists (NNNN)
Shella Record: A Reggae Mystery (NNN)
>>> Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire (NNNN)
>>> There Are No Fakes (NNNN)
>>> Toxic Beauty (NNNN)
The Trial Of Ratko Mladic (NNN)
Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts (NNN)
Union Maids (NNN)
Well Groomed (NNN)
>>> Who Let The Dogs Out (NNNN)
Willie (NNN)
>>> A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem (NNNN)
>>> The World Or Nothing (NNNN)
Your Last Walk In The Mosque (NNN)
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