Oh, Canada

"The film’s epic finale feels stagy — while these real-life frustrations are anything but."

"A million miles from the potent anguish of First Reformed..."

"Muddled, anticlimactic and often diffidently performed..."

"Leaves viewers dizzied and lost by the chopped-up melancholy of it all."

"Feels both slight and stubbornly page-bound, too unsatisfyingly fleshed out to give its actors meat to chew on."

"A frequently fascinating and often moving film despite its many, often glaring, flaws."

"There’s a sense here of Paul Schrader wanting to pare back his customary aesthetic even further..."

"Schrader realizes a tale of immense complexity with bold ease."

"[Honors] Banks while also revealing so many of Schrader’s own thoughts on mortality."

"Might be a movie that was conceived in the long dark night of the soul, but it moves towards brightness and possibility."

"Schrader’s approach to this material... is fascinating, a filmmaker’s translation in every sense of the word."

"While "Oh, Canada" has moments of mordant humor, its ultimate mode is the elegiac."

"The self-loathing is front and centre, and Schrader looks it straight in the eye."

"A bum-numbing flop."