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Courtney Small
Senior Critic
Courtney is a Rotten Tomatoes approved film critic and co-host of the radio show Frameline. He has written for several publications including POV Magazine, CBC Arts, Exclaim!, Cinema Axis, Leonard Maltin, In the Seats, Black Girl Nerds, and Comix Asylum. He also discusses diversity in cinema as host of the Changing Reels podcast and is a member of the Online Film Critics Society, GALECA, the African American Film Critics Association and is a Golden Globes international voter.Articles by Courtney Small:
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January 25, 2022
Sundance 2022: Hatching ReviewA wildly original and disturbing work, Hatching marks the arrival of Hanna Bergholm as a thrilling new voice in the horror genre.
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January 22, 2022
Sundance 2022: We Need to Talk About Cosby ReviewW. Kamau Bell’s We Need to Talk About Cosby shows that beneath the iconic actor’s cloak of respectability lay something far more sinister.
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January 22, 2022
Sundance 2022: Emergency ReviewA refreshingly original work, Emergency captures how race and perception can make even the most obvious choice extremely complicated.
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January 22, 2022
Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World ReviewJesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut When You Finish Saving the World – starring Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard – is a confident and delightfully cringe-filled story of a mother and son.
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January 9, 2022
See For Me ReviewRandall Okita’s See For Me ultimately lacks the vision to truly deliver on the potential it initially shows.
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October 29, 2021
Snakehead Review: Gangster Flick Eats Its Own TailEvan Jackson Leong’s first dramatic feature explores the underbelly of human trafficking.
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October 28, 2021
Rendezvous with Madness 2021: North By Current ReviewThe push for reform within the criminal justice system is often discussed from an inner-city perspective in the media. What is not mentioned is that misuse of power in policing and the courts has a great impact on those in rural communities as well. Returning to his hometown of Grayling, Michigan, director Angelo Madsen Minax […]
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September 14, 2021
TIFF 2021: Dug Dug ReviewFrom filmmaker Ritwik Pareek comes Dug Dug, a film which observes how blind faith can be spawned out of the most unlikely of places.
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September 13, 2021
TIFF 2021: Mlungu Wam (Good Madam) ReviewMlungu Wam (Good Madam) uses domestic servitude as a chilling entry point into lingering impact of the apartheid-era
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September 13, 2021
TIFF 2021: Comala ReviewIn putting together the puzzle pieces of his estranged father’s life, Gian Cassini effectively documents the ways in which familial ties are often messy.
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