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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Exclusive Clip: Ray Winstone is Looking Up Your Skirt in Nick Love’s The Sweeney

We've come to associate the raspy Ray Winstone to antagonist/villain-like roles of corruption, the underground and outlaws (favorites include Sexy Beast, The Proposition), but...

Silver Linings Playbook Has Great Juju at the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards

It would be the film with the juju in David O. Russell's zany black comedy that was the toast of the  28th Independent Spirit Awards...

CBS Films Get “Inside Llewyn Davis”

They got off to a shaky start in '10, and the turn around commenced somewhere around the same time last year when they released...

Magnolia Pictures continue Scandi Treasure Diving with Sandemose’s “Ranganok”

With pick-ups such as Trollhunter, Headhunters, A Royal Affair, A Hijacking and most recently Pioneer, Eamonn Bowles' Magnolia Pictures has recently become a go-to label...

Criterion Collection: The Kid with a Bike | Blu-ray Review

There’s an extraordinary moment in Rosetta, the Dardenne Brothers’ Palme d’Or winning slice of grungy life from 1999. About 22 minutes in, Emilie Dequenne’s...

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Her Private Hell | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?: Refn Returns...

Fjord | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Uncanny Valley: Mungiu Explores Liberated Prisons Totalitarian mentality is driven...

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Years We Fell Apart: Razo Resurrects the Final Throes...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’

The Romanian master filmmaker Cristian Mungiu moves away from...
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