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Releasing on Dec 6, 2024
  • 2024
  • Top Film Distribution
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2024
  • Top Film Distribution
  • 1 h 35 m

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 an exte...

Directed By: Paul Schrader

Written By: Russell Banks, Paul Schrader

  • 2024
  • Top Film Distribution
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2024
  • Top Film Distribution
  • 1 h 35 m

Oh, Canada

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
59
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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 an exte...

Directed By: Paul Schrader

Written By: Russell Banks, Paul Schrader

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
59
44% Positive
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50% Mixed
9 Reviews
6% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
59
44% Positive
8 Reviews
50% Mixed
9 Reviews
6% Negative
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91
May 19, 2024
Schrader’s gaze is patient — tired, almost. He frames Gere’s aged face in tight close-ups, and it is as if we are seeing him for the first time, wrinkled and ragged and oh so very beautiful.
By Rafaela Sales Ross FULL REVIEW
80
May 19, 2024
Oh, Canada might be a movie that was conceived in the long dark night of the soul, but it moves towards brightness and possibility.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
70
May 23, 2024
It's a frequently fascinating and often moving film despite its many, often glaring, flaws.
By Chase Hutchinson FULL REVIEW
60
May 23, 2024
With sincerity and style, Schrader offers a thoughtful film about life and legacy.
By Patrice Witherspoon FULL REVIEW
60
May 19, 2024
A movie that is neither Schrader’s best work nor his most scandalous.
By Oris Aigbokhaevbolo FULL REVIEW
50
May 19, 2024
Schrader adapts the 2021 novel Foregone by Russell Banks into his own specific creation, and one that leaves viewers dizzied and lost by the chopped-up melancholy of it all.
By Ryan Lattanzio FULL REVIEW
20
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.
By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Northern Lights Films, Exemplar Films, Exemplary Films Corporation, Left Home Prods, Lucky 13 Productions, One Two Twenty Entertainment, Ottocento Films, SIPUR, Vested Interest
Release Date Dec 6, 2024
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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