Oh, Canada

Name: Oh, Canada
Genre: Drama
Released: December 6, 2024
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Aaron Roman Weiner, Caroline Dhavernas, Gregory Connors, Jacob Elordi, Jake Weary

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: December 6, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Aaron Roman Weiner, Caroline Dhavernas, Gregory Connors, Jacob Elordi, Jake Weary, John Way, Kristine Froseth, Michael Imperioli, Penelope Mitchell, Richard Gere, Ryan Woodle, Uma Thurman, Victoria Hill

Summary: Aging filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), still fiery despite his battle with illness, wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of acclaimed documentary exposés, he has much to be proud of, but his Vietnam War draft-dodging and his past relationships harbor thorny truths. Leonard sits for anAging filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), still fiery despite his battle with illness, wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of acclaimed documentary exposés, he has much to be proud of, but his Vietnam War draft-dodging and his past relationships harbor thorny truths. Leonard sits for an extended interview with his former student Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), relating candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elordi) in the tumultuous 1960s and beyond. At Leonard’s insistence, his wife and indispensable artistic partner, Emma (Uma Thurman), bears witness to it all. His successes are held up against his failings and, as the man is cleansed of the myth, Leonard must confront what is left.… Expand

Director: Paul Schrader

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Dec 6, 2024

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

Liam Lacey

Dec 12, 2024

Paul Schrader’s latest film Oh, Canada, based on Russell Banks’ final novel Foregone, is a confined affair, suggesting the art of constructing complicated toy sailing ships in small bottles. Confined, but complicated. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

May 19, 2024

Amid the formal fluidity, the forceful acting keeps us hooked. Read full review

Dave Calhoun

May 20, 2024

Its bitty flashback approach to Fife’s earlier life feels shallow, and the dynamics around the recording of his memories too often feel bogus, with Thurman’s character’s complaints feeling especially repetitive and one-note. But the sting of mortality is felt just strongly enough, and Schrader offers an unsentimental, clear-eyed view of the near-impossibility of finding a neat closure on life’s mistakes and failures. Read full review

Tara Brady

Jan 9, 2026

It lacks the wild provocations of Schrader’s scalding recent trilogy, but Oh, Canada pokes and probes in quieter, sneakier ways. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Jan 6, 2025

Oh, Canada is about not so much Fife’s artistic growth as his journey to hermetically sealed narcissism. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

May 19, 2024

Schrader is a million miles from the potent anguish of First Reformed, the 2017 film that won him an Oscar; rather, this nearly rivals his 2013 erotic thriller The Canyons, starring Lindsay Lohan, for bewildering tedium. Read full review

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