About
Box Dog Critique is a space for cinephiles everywhere to explore breakdowns, analyses, and reviews of films new, old, and in between. Box Dog understands that a film is never just good or bad, but a compilation of departments, efforts, and elements that each play a role in the final result. Box Dog seeks to explore each of these aspects in examining why a film may have succeeded in some of our hearts, and not in others. And ultimately, Box Dog seeks to celebrate cinema and everything its done for individuals in growing up and finding themselves onscreen. Keep an eye out for special badges and certifications for progressive and inclusive film credits.
*Analyses contain spoilers, but you can look for the spoiler free zone at the top of every entry.
Author
Alana McGraw is a fourth year film student at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario. Her love affair with film started at a very young age, and she has spent her life building that relationship with cinema from all eras. As the youngest in her family, she was never bound by the filmography of her generation alone and appreciates the longevity of film as an art form. Tired of reviews that relished in dubbing films simply good or bad, posing subjectivity as objectivity, she sought out to start a blog that admitted to personal bias and understood the complexities behind what establishes a film’s successes and failures. Currently, Alana is working on her thesis for her final year of her Bachelor’s in Film and Media Production, and is working toward a career in writing and directing.