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Pat Mullen

Associate Editor / Senior Critic

Pat Mullen received an MA from Carleton University where his studies focused on adaptation and Canadian cinema. He is the publisher of POV Magazine, Canada’s destination for documentary culture, and has contributed to other publications including The Canadian Encyclopedia, Beatroute, Awards Daily, Paste, Xtra, Documentary, and his independent blog Cinemablographer. Pat is the vice president of the Toronto Film Critics Association, a member of the Online Film Critics Society, and an international voter for the Golden Globe Awards.

He lives in Toronto with his cat, Fellini.

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Articles by Pat Mullen:

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  February 14, 2019

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  Everybody Knows Review

  Director Asghar Farhadi’s riveting drama is a moral fable disguised as a potboiler that pulls the strings on a deceptively familiar premise.

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  January 24, 2019

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  Cold War Review

  Will audiences ever tire of silly love songs? A handful of ditties replay throughout Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War and each reprisal of a tune breaks one’s heart into pieces.

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  December 28, 2018

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  Lifechanger Review

  As both a character study and an exercise in low-budget genre filmmaking, Lifechanger finds a smart balance between the ideas it seeks to evoke and the unsettling thrill that thenhorror provides.

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  December 26, 2018

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  Director Cristina Gallego Talks Birds of Passage

  The team behind the arthouse hit and Oscar nominee Embrace of the Serpent is back. We spoke with Birds of Passage director Cristina Gallego about the electrifying Colombian cartel drama.