Endless Cookie. 2025. Canada. Written and directed by Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver. New York premiere. 97 min.
A marvelously inventive throwback to underground comix of Kim Deitch and the antic handdrawn animation of Sally Cruikshank and Suzan Pitt, Endless Cookie takes us on a wild ride with the half-brothers Scriver—Peter is the Indigenous kid, Seth the white one—as they journey back to 1980s Toronto and the icily remote regions of Shamattawa, a First Nations community in northern Manitoba, in search of family ties and divides. The hilarious tales, many of them involving chaotic menageries of caribou, dogs, and kids, come fast and furious. But don’t be fooled by the Scrivers’ candy-coated, polymorphous cartooning and “aw shucks” narration, original though they may be, for Endless Cookie is a pretty damning indictment of the way Canada treats its Indigenous peoples.