Oh Canada

[It] presents a dying artist’s final testimony as a multifaceted film-within-a-film, honoring Banks while also revealing so many of Schrader’s own thoughts on mortality" 

"For a film about big themes like mortality, memory, truth and redemption, 'Oh, Canada' feels both slight and stubbornly page-bound, too unsatisfyingly fleshed out to give its actors meat to chew on" 

"Paul Schrader’s rueful ode to death and regret is as confused as its protagonist (...) Schrader mixes styles and approaches for his most experimental film in years, but the drama gets too often lost in its own ambition" 

"The main conclusion to be drawn from this sincere but stupefying head-scratcher is that the interview recorded by Leo’s former students would have ended up as a terrible documentary. Schrader’s own film isn’t much better" 

"[It] is unwieldy and sometimes hamfisted, including a closing music cue that will have you rolling your eyes. And yet it’s hard to look away from how Schrader has taken his most beautiful troubled hero in Gere and forced him to wither away" 

"[It] is thought provoking and worthwhile. Maybe it could even inspire others to perhaps examine their own lives before it is too late to do so" 

"Paul Schrader’s Profoundly Existential Reflection on Estrangement (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"