Pat Mullen

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 president of the Toronto Film Critics Association, a member of the Online Film Critics Society and GALECA, and an international voter for the Golden Globe Awards.

He lives in Toronto with his cat, Fellini.

Articles by Pat Mullen:


  • Triple-Frontier-Ben-Affleck-Feature-Image_
    March 7, 2019
    Triple Frontier Review

    The premise of Triple Frontier isn’t entirely new, but its tale of honour among thieves is one that never grows old.

  • Everybody Knows Review
    February 14, 2019
    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.

  • Cold War review
    January 24, 2019
    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.

  • Lifechanger
    December 28, 2018
    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.

  • Birds of Passage
    December 26, 2018
    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.