Eric Lavallée

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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Review: Three Monkeys

"An engrossing film neatly book-ended by tragedy, the beautifully directed, somber looking picture could easily be described as a triage drama."

Three Monkeys | Review

See, Hear and Speak no Evil: Ceylan digs into catastrophe, one crisis at a time.

Orange of the Week: Criterion Collection & Warner Home Video

The biggest pet peeve for gamers, music and movie collectors is when technological advancements makes "collections" obsolete. In the case of video cassettes to DVD, the trade in was welcomed one, but when two platforms HD and Blu-ray came out it reminded us of the damn Beta vs. VHS war.

Lemon of the Week: Disney and their Trailer for Ocean

Tied with the release of Earth, Disneynature have added the odd confection of a preview trailer for the long delayed Jacques Perrin documentary film. The trailer spends more than half of the allocated 120 seconds at making some sort of self-congratulatory link between the manufactured animal kingdom television documentary films of before, and have tied it to the feature that comes from the person who gave us Winged Migration.

Creative Differences Over ‘Margaret’

“If more time passes, what was once a contemporary drama could soon become a period piece.” Los Angeles Times John Horn has answered the burning question: what is the fate and state of Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret.

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2026 TIFF: Anna Foglietta, Alexandra Pechman & Ione Hernández in the Discovery Section

From yesterday's TIFF Platform section we now move to...

2026 Venice Film Festival: Lili Horvát, Nathalia Acevedo & Robert Guédiguian in Giornate Degli Autori

Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvát, actress-turned filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo and...

2026 TIFF: Amanda Kernell, Irene Dionisio & John Trengove Films Among Dozen Platform Comp Selections

Earlier this year, the Academy Awards announced that the...
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