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Alexander Mooney

Alexander Mooney is a Toronto-based critic and filmmaker. His work has also appeared in Reverse Shot, The Globe and Mail, Sight and Sound, Screen Slate, and Documentary Magazine.

Seeds

‘Seeds’ Review: Brittany Shyne’s Moving Portrait of Generational Black Farmers in the South

by Alexander Mooney
January 11, 2026

The film pays profound tribute to the perseverance of its subjects.

Keeper

‘Keeper’ Review: Osgood Perkins’s Airless, Abstruse Cabin-in-the-Woods Chiller

by Alexander Mooney
November 14, 2025

Keeper is a latter-day Perkins horror film through and through.

Dead Man’s Wire

‘Dead Man’s Wire’ Review: Gus Van Sant’s Breathlessly Satirical True-Crime Thriller

by Alexander Mooney
September 19, 2025

The film is a memorably wonky take on the spectacles we make of crime and punishment.

The Wizard of the Kremlin

‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ Review: Olivier Assayas’s Leaden Portrait of Putin’s Kingmaker

by Alexander Mooney
September 15, 2025

Assayas’s knack for fostering insight through irony is nowhere to be found in the film.

The Testament of Ann Lee

‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: The Musical Agony and the Ecstasy of a Shaker

by Alexander Mooney
September 13, 2025

This protean fable is tremulous, tricky, and intrepid, much like its pious protagonist.

Rental Family

‘Rental Family’ Review: A Mawkish Portrait of a Struggling Actor’s Journey of Self-Discovery

by Alexander Mooney
September 10, 2025

The setup of Hikari’s film is milked for all its humor and pathos—and then some.

Addison Rae, Addison

Addison Rae ‘Addison’ Review: A Gauzy but Confident Bid for Self-Possession

by Alexander Mooney
June 8, 2025

Like so much good pop music, the album makes hard work seem like second nature.

Tornado

‘Tornado’ Review: John Maclean’s Sophomore Feature Is an Overly Mannered Period Parable

by Alexander Mooney
May 26, 2025

Like Slow West before it, the film is a stripped-down genre exercise, for better and worse.

Bonjour Tristesse

‘Bonjour Tristesse’ Review: Durga Chew-Bose Lends a Timeless Story a Newfangled Tenor

by Alexander Mooney
April 27, 2025

The film finds a state of grace in that torrential pull between the familiar and the new.

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