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: Hard Candy

"remains a both easy and good looking watch and there is a potential for an amazing short film and somewhere inside a cliffhanger-ending , however the number of confrontations and brief turn-over in power makes it hard to care for the denouement of the feature-length product..."

Review: Akeelah and the Bee

"Doug Atchison’s passion project shows that power is possible through knowledge, support and believing in ones’ self. Akeelah is the sort of family film that doesn’t succumb to the Disney-syndrome of over-dramatizing every single element"

Akeelah and the Bee | Review

Dictionary Diva

Hard Candy | Review

Be the Hunter

Review: Brick

"what lacks here to make the perfect trifecta is a meanness and darkness – and its not simply a question of trading the protagonist’s eye-glasses and unkept hair for a pointed hat and shades, but adding more style in the character of the film instead of adding to the elaborate construction of it".

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