Now playing in theaters nationwide is the powerful and thought-provoking Just Mercy, a true story based on the book by Harvard Law School-educated civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson (played […]
It’s a busy time of year at the movies, as Oscar nominations are imminent and theaters are booked with that odd mix of year-end must-see movies still playing on the […]
I spent most of director William Eubank’s (The Signal) newest film, Underwater, on the verge of really liking it, waiting for that one original element to push me over the […]
It seems odd to be reviewing a documentary about a film critic whose influence is still a big part of the critical landscape, in the same way it was surreal […]
The last time director Miguel Arteta (Cedar Rapids, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt) and actor Selma Hayek worked together, it resulted in the defiantly under-seen Beatriz […]
Directed by Russian-born documentarian Alla Kovgan (Movement (R)evolution Africa), Cunningham traces dancer and revolutionary choreographer Mercier Philip “Merce” Cunningham’s artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery (1944–1972), from […]
Merce Cunningham died in 2009 at the age of 90, and in his decades-long career as a dancer and choreographer, he redefined American modern dance as we know it. Fond […]
“According to a report from the United Nations, 71 per cent of all human trafficking victims are women and girls. Human trafficking earns profits of roughly $150 billion a year.” […]
The reason I separate out documentaries into their own Best of the Year list is not because I feel they should be judged differently than feature films, but because I […]
Call me old fashioned, but I’m a firm believer in not posting a Best Of the Year list until the year is actually over. I’m often able to squeeze in […]
In 1964, filmmaker Michael Apted was in his early 20s and working as a researcher on a project called Seven Up!, a sort of experiment in documentary filmmaking that interviewed […]
There’s a moment in the World War I-set film 1917 that will live with me forever. Directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall, Revolutionary Road) and written by rising talent […]