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Ghederick Eshmont A brilliant meditation on the self-indulgence of the “draft dodgers” of the Vietnam era…however the film ends so abruptly, it questions the point? Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/21/24 Full Review Mimi What a horrid, despicable, depressing look at someones life choices. What was Richard Gere thinking?? Do yourself a favor and go do anything, but see this film! Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/14/24 Full Review Shannon P It was moving, confusing, sad, and a trip back to the Vietnam war era. Worth a watch, especially if you expetienced that era. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/14/24 Full Review Joe G A sadly disjointed memoir, anchored by two great performers, Richard Gere and Uma Thurman, but weighed down by a montage of mismatched scenes and subplots. It was like Schrader randomly opened the book and shot whatever was on that page. Then, running out of time or money, I suppose, left it to the editor to piece it all together. As voiceovers go, this is a good example of how to *not* use voiceovers. The movie lacks the discipline that any good filmmaker must exercise in the execution of the work. It leaves us with no one to root for (except, perhaps, Emma) and no sense of who anybody really was. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/19/25 Full Review Alan W Paul Schrader's adaptation of Russell Banks' novel Foregone now renamed Oh, Canada is barely 90mins long but it felt much longer. Ostensibly a film about Richard Gere's dying documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife reflecting upon his life on camera, where he's trying to reveal something less than savory about his celebrated past as a draft evader during the Vietnam War, he's your typical unreliable narrator where we're never sure whether those flashbacks we're watching are true or not. Jacob Elordi plays a younger Fife in the flashbacks but sometimes Gere plays that too. The use of different camera style, aspect ratios, colours and even voiceover POV point to something profound or meaningful, but it feels so deconstructed and intangible, I was never able to grasp what exactly that is. The end result is a stylized but confusing mess, a waste of its cast and perhaps not the best film to finish a super long flight and a 5-movie marathon. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/16/25 Full Review Audience Member This is an incoherent mess of a movie. Whatever noble intention it may have had at its conception was lost through extreme incompetence of filmmaking. I feel sorry for the families of these filmmakers who had to sacrifice their own relationship to the truth in order to give this a positive review in a misguided demonstration of support. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/18/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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