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The Grizzlies

2018

Miranda de Pencier

Ben Schnetzer, Emerald MacDonald, Tantoo Cardinal, Ricky Marty-Pahtaykan ...

6.7

30

Drama In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"A stirring and compelling variation on a popular theme (...) Performances help to enliven the movie (...) The director and cinematographer Jim Denault expertly convey the bleak beauty of the Arctic landscape"
		Courtney Howard Variety	"It’s exactly the type of uplifting movie that could boost spirits during these bleak times."
		Norman Wilner Now Toronto	"It’s a movie that tells its story with authenticity and heart, and that makes all the difference. It scores.(…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"'The Grizzlies' is brought to life through the specifics that make the characters and their sense of place—and of displacement—central to the story (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Simon Houpt The Globe and Mail	"A fascinating puzzle: a film that is simultaneously an indictment of the toxic legacy of cultural imperialism and a weepie that employs the familiar tropes of Hollywood, one of the biggest machines of cultural imperialism on the planet."
		Scott Hines Decider	"A gripping sports movie worthy of its place in that canon, and the filmmakers’ conscious efforts to avoid the potential pitfalls of telling this particular story pay off"
		Tara McNamara Common Sense Media	"It doesn't just defy sports movie clichés: It embraces and then exceeds the genre by delivering a meaningful and important story"
		Ken Eisner Georgia Straight	"[It] does manage to cover fresh territory in its tale of an arrogant outsider who gets educated by the locals."
		Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times	"[The creators] haven’t dodged hard sociological truths lurking beneath the gentle humor, engaging performances and stirringly photographed tundra, lending “The Grizzlies” a decisive, transformative edge"

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