Reviews

The most-watched CBC documentaries in 2020

18:24 04 January in News, Reviews by admin

By CBC Docs Assholes: A Theory is one of the 10 most-watched films from CBC Docs — it's an interesting mix and they're all streaming free on CBC Gem. Read full article at cbc.ca...

Review: How America Became a Country Full of Assholes

13:23 31 October in Reviews by admin

By Nick Schager, The Daily Beast The new documentary 'Assholes: A Theory' examines the assholing of America, a nation ruled by the biggest asshole of them all: Donald J. Trump. Read full article at thedailybeast.com...

The Best Canadian Documentaries of 2019

11:51 26 December in News, Reviews by admin

By Marc Glassman, Point of View Magazine After too many years of assembling top ten lists, I’m feeling more comfortable with offering advice on films I enjoyed during the year without rating them in a numerical format. It’s tough enough to state that these are docs...

Review: Light Sociological Doc Runs Into Problems Defining Its Orifice

12:12 28 November in Reviews by admin

By Liam Lacey, Original CIN 'Assholes: A Theory,' the lightly sociological, somewhat silly, John Walker documentary is nominally about a social phenomenon – rudeness, norm-breaking and bad behavior. Most of us can read between the frames and see it’s really about the ghastly phenomenon of Donald...

Review: ‘Assholes: A Theory’ has Canadian content, unfortunately

12:03 28 November in Reviews by admin

By Peter Howell, Toronto Star Everybody talks about assholes, but nobody does anything about them. Mark Twain could have said that (although he didn’t), but leave it to veteran documentary maker John Walker to get down to the bottom line of the matter, in his new...

Review: Documentary tackles narcissism, entitlement with a laugh

12:20 15 November in Reviews by admin

By Alison Gillmor, Winnipeg Free Press Inspired by the similarly titled New York Times bestseller by Aaron James, Canadian documentarian John Walker looks at the rampant narcissism, obnoxious entitlement and toxic discourse that seem to have recently overtaken public life. Read full article at winnipegfreepress.com...

Review: All documentary Assholes: A Theory is missing is a theory

12:25 14 November in Reviews by admin

By Chris Knight, Sault This Week Despite its click-bait title, documentary filmmaker John Walker’s Assholes: A Theory doesn’t exactly present a theory about its subject matter. It offers up several definitions, delineates various types – loud, sexist, drunk, at work, in traffic, on social media, etc....

Review: My Summer Lair featuring John Walker (Assholes: A Theory)

11:55 12 November in Reviews by admin

Sammy Younan, My Summer Lair Watching Assholes: A Theory I thought about Kanye West. Read full article at girthradio.com...

Review: All About Assholes

16:45 07 November in Reviews by admin

By Atascadero News Assholes. They’re everywhere. They’re in your home, at your workplace, at your gym and in your pub. Perhaps you’re one of them. Now, are they worth a documentary? Turns out, they are. Assholes have become a public menace. Read full article at planetsmag.com/…...

Review: Assholes: A Theory

16:49 31 October in Reviews by admin

By Everyday Activist Luckily, this is a documentary film blog, otherwise the title may suggest a myriad of issues from Premier Kenny's latest budget to dealing with insurance companies. Read full article at calgarymovies.com/…...

A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FROM JOHN WALKER

A JOHN WALKER PRODUCTION IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA IN ASSOCIATION WITH DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL

CINEMATOGRAPHER PAUL MCCURDY EDITOR JEFF WARREN COMPOSER SANDY MOORE SOUND DESIGNER ALEX SALTER ANIMATOR RON MCDOUGALL LOCATION SOUND JIM RILLIE PRODUCERS ANN BERNIER ANNETTE CLARKE JOHN WALKER WRITTEN BY JOHN WALKER ROBERT SANDLER DIRECTED & NARRATED BY JOHN WALKER

A John Walker Production in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with documentary Channel and Canada Media Fund, with the assistance of the Government of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Film & Television Production Incentive Fund, Telefilm Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds, through the Theatrical Documentary Program, Rogers Telefund and The Canadian Film or Video Film Tax Credit and developed with the assistance of Superchannel