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Film Review and Director Q&A: Inhospitable
Documentaries about the broken American healthcare system are nothing new, but I…
Film Review: Karmalink
Billed as a “Buddhist sci-fi mystery,” Jake Wachtel’s film follows two working-c…
Film Review: Costa Brava, Lebanon
Mounia Akl's film tackles an important and underdiscussed aspect of an important…
Film Review: Flint
The people of Flint have had to endure the tortures of the damned for nearly a d…
Film Review: Meat the Future
“Lab-grown meat” may not sound particularly appetizing, but Meat the Future, dir…
Film Review: All That Breathes
Winner of the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Fe…
Film Review: Midwives
Despite the title, Burmese director Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing’s riveting documentary i…
Film Review: The Velvet Queen
THE SNOW LEOPARD is one of the most elusive creatures on the face of the earth, …
Film Review: Salt in My Soul
ASSEMBLED FROM home movies, recordings, and diaries kept by the late Mallory Smi…
Film Review: Needle in a Timestack
JOHN RIDLEY’S Needle in a Timestack is a convoluted, unconvincing romantic sci-f…
Film Review: Daughter of a Lost Bird
THE TERM “LOST BIRD” refers to Native Americans who were adopted by white famili…
Film Review: AWARE
THE VERY NATURE OF SENTIENCE is at the heart of Frauke Sandig and Eric Black’s a…
Film Review: The Loneliest Whale
FOR MANY YEARS, the so-called “52-hertz whale” has been one of the more mysterio…
Film Review: Looking for a Lady With Fangs and a Mustache
In this gentle, playful drama, a Nepalese entrepreneur looking to open a cool n…
Film Review: Stray
Five years ago, adventurous moviegoers were enchanted with Turkish director Cey…
Film Review: Our Friend
Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and adapted by screenwriter Brad Ingelsby fro…
Film Review: Bedlam
Bedlam offers a sobering look at the devastating toll of mental illness on patie…
Film Review: Planet of the Humans
Planet of the HumansDirected by Jeff Gibbs RUMBLE MEDIA WHAT IF THE green ene…
Film Review: Chasing the Present
Chasing the PresentDirected by Mark Waters 1091 FILMS HAVING STRUGGLED WITH a…
Film Review: The Antidote
The AntidoteDirected by Kahane Cooperman, John HoffmanCINETIC/BRAND NEW STORY …
Film Review: Kiss the Ground
Kiss the GroundDirected by Joshua Tickell and Rebecca Harrell TickellBIG PICTURE…
Film Review: The Mindfulness Movement
There have been lots of documentaries in recent years about various aspects…
Film Review: The Medicine
The medicine referred to in the title of Farzin Toussi’s documentary is ayahuasc…
Film Review: Dark Waters
If you just read a synopsis, director Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters might seem l…
Film Review: Gift
There is a radical utopianism at the heart of Gift, but for its 90-minute r…
Film Review: Fantastic Fungi
Louie Schwartzberg’s documentary is a dreamy, informative, and hopeful dive into…
Film Review: The Sweet Requiem
The Sweet Requiem is an admirable, sometimes surprising look at the tragedy of d…
Film Review: Becoming Nobody
This film adds another chapter to the Ram Dass story through archival footage an…
Film Review: The Mustang
Superb acting and tight directing elevate this film about an inmate training a w…
Film Review: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
This powerful, poetic film shows the stunning beauty (and horrific impact) of hu…
Film Review: Honeyland
This movie about Europe's last wild beekeeper is complex, resonant, and visually…
Film Review: Genesis 2.0
Alternating between strikingly shot footage of ivory hunters in the New Siberian…
Film Review: A Quest for Meaning
a Ménardière and Nathanaël Coste, one a slick, successful bottled water salesman…
Film Review: Weed The People
Its playful title notwithstanding, Weed the People is a tough watch—but it…
Film Review: The Providers
“Last year, 70,000 deaths in rural America could have been prevented with better…
Film Review: What They Had
Terrific performances and an authentic portrait of a heartbreaking illness mark …
FIlm Review: City of Joy
The “city of joy” referred to in the title of Madeleine Gavin’s documentary is n…
Film Review: Inventing Tomorrow
Can kids save the world? They might have to. In Laura Nix’s absorbing documentar…
Film Review: Cielo
Alison McAlpine’s visually ravishing documentary takes us to the Atacama Desert …
Film Review: Strangers on the Earth
TRISTAN COOK’S intriguingly conceived documentary follows the American cellist D…
Film Review: Sunday's Illness
AN INTIMATE FAMILY DRAMA shot like a slow-burn horror movie, Spanish director Ra…
Film Review: The Seagull
MICHAEL MAYER’S frantic but atmospheric new film version of the classic play sti…
Film Review: Far from the Tree
EVERY PARENT at some point has to contend with the fact that their child is a di…
Film Review: Quest
SHOT OVER the course of nearly a decade, Jonathan Olshefski’s absorbing, often h…
Film Review: Itzhak
THE GREAT Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman makes for a lively guide to …
Film Review: What Lies Upstream
The cynical collusion between corporations and government to gut the regulations…
Film Review: The Divine Order
As she gradually finds her voice, the women around her join forces in solidarity…
Film Review: The Departure
Each unanswered call could be one more person on the edge who desperately needs …
Film Review: Jane
Brett Morgen’s thoroughly absorbing documentary about the life and career of wor…
Film Review: One of Us
“Nobody leaves unless they’re willing to pay the price,” says one subject in Hei…
Film Review: Human Flow
The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s immensely ambitious new documentary exp…
Film Review: Walk With Me
Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch (his rich, mellifluous baritone is immediately …
Film Review: Te Ata
This handsome, well-mounted biopic of Frances Thompson Fisher, a Chickasaw actre…
Film Review: Year by the Sea
“What if something happens to you out there, all alone?” “That’s the whole point…
Film Review: In Pursuit of Silence
What exactly is silence? Patrick Shen’s hypnotic documentary, shot around the wo…
Film Review: Chasing Coral
Jeff Orlowski’s suspenseful and heartbreaking documentary focuses on the phenome…
Film Review: The Resilient Heart
Dr. Valentin Fuster has dedicated his life to promoting cardiovascular health, a…
Film Review: Nise: The Heart of Madness
Nise da Silveira was a Brazilian psychiatrist who revolutionized the way mental …
Film Review: Sacred
Director Thomas Lennon’s film examines the role of faith by following various ri…
Film Review: Bending the Arc
Bending the ArcKief Davidson and Pedro KosImpact Partners FilmThis is a great, g…
Film Review: I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your NegroRaoul PeckVelvet FilmAt the time of his death in 1987, the gr…
Film Review: 100 YEARS: One Woman’s Fight for Justice
100 YEARS: One Woman’s Fight for Justice Melinda Janko Fire in the Belly Produ…
Film Review: Serenade for Haiti
Serenade for HaitiOwsley BrownOwsley Brown PresentsOver the years, Sainte Trinit…
Film Review: Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & AmericaMatt OrnsteinSound & Vis…
Film Review: Seed: The Untold Story
Seed: The Untold Story Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel Collective Eye Films Docum…
Film Review: Before the Flood
Before the Flood Fisher Stevens National Geographic Movie star and longtime e…
Film Review: Seasons
Seasons Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud Music Box Films Directors Jacques …
Film Review: Landfill Harmonic
Landfill HarmonicGraham Townsley and Brad AllgoodMeetai FilmsThe Recycled Orches…
Film Review: Circle of Poison
Circle of PoisonEvan Mascagni and Shannon PostCollective Eye FilmsThe “circle of…
Film Review: A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Tale of Love and DarknessNatalie PortmanFocus FeaturesAdapted from Israeli wri…
Film Review: After Spring
After SpringDirected by Ellen Martinez and Steph ChingBusBoy ProductionsDoc…
Film Review: HappyFilm
HappyFilm Directed by Ben Nabors, Stefan Sagmeister, Hillman Curtis SoSo Produ…
Film Review: Bugs
BugsDirected by Andreas JohnsenRosforth FilmsOpening with a culinary feast invol…
Film Review: Catching the Sun
Catching the SunThe Race for the Clean Energy FutureShalini Kantayya7th Emp…
Film Review: Love Is a Verb
Love Is a VerbTerry Spencer Hesser and Stephan MazurekDark Sky FilmsThe Muslim t…
Film Review: The Professor: Tai Chi’s Journey West
The Professor: Tai Chi’s Journey WestBarry StrugatzFirst Run FeaturesIn 1964, a …
The Lyric Mind
Stephen Sondheim and Steven Pinker talk about music and language at the Rubin Museum of Art
Film Review: They Will Have to Kill Us First
They Will Have to Kill Us FirstJohanna SchwartzTogether FilmsJohanna Schwartz’s …
Film Review: The Seer
The SeerA Portrait of Wendell BerryLaura DunnTwo Birds FilmDirector Laura Dunn’s…
Film Review: Paths of the Soul
Paths of the SoulZhang WangLETV PicturesChinese director Zhang Wang’s hypnotic f…
Film Review: The C Word
The C WordMeghan O’HaraZorro and Me FilmsThe “C word” is, of course, “cancer,” a…
Film Review: He Named Me Malala
He Named Me MalalaDirected by Davis GuggenheimFox Searchlight PicturesThe terrif…
Film Review: Shelter
ShelterDirected by Paul BettanyScreen Media FilmsIn this gritty, nerve-wracking …
Film Review: This Changes Everything
This Changes EverythingAvi LewisAbramoramaThere have been hundreds of environmen…
Film Review: The Human Face of Big Data
The Human Face of Big DataSandy SmolanRoco FilmsSandy Smolan’s documentary plays…
Film Review: The Pearl Button
The Pearl ButtonPatricio GuzmanKino LorberThe Chilean director Patricio Guzman h…
Film Review: The Man Who Saved the World
The Man Who Saved the WorldPeter AnthonyStatement FilmIt might be hard to believ…
Film Review: The Armor of Light
The Armor of LightAbigail DisneyFork FilmsAbigail Disney’s emotionally overwhelm…
Film Review: Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran’s The ProphetDirected by Roger AllersGKIDS There are few things i…
Film Review: The Search for Freedom
Directed by Jon LongITM FILM AND THE EARTH NETWORK We’ve gotten lots of documen…
Film Review: Paulo Coelho’s Best Story
Paulo Coelho’s Best StoryDirected by Daniel AugustoMUSIC BOX FILMS This biopic …
Film Review: Planetary
PlanetaryDirected by Guy ReidPLANETARY COLLECTIVEDirector Guy Reid’s documentary…
Film Review: Natural Resistance
Natural ResistanceDirected by Jonathan NossiterGOATWORKS FILMSMore than a decade…
Film Review: Aloft
AloftDirected by Claudia LlosaSONY PICTURE CLASSICSPeruvian director Claudia Llo…
Film Review: The Human Experiment
The Human ExperimentDirected by Don Hardy and Dana NachmanKTFFilmsThe “experimen…
Film Review: We Are the Giant
We Are the GiantDirected by Greg BarkerMusic Box FilmsGreg Barker’s documentary …
Film Review: Because I Was a Painter
Because I Was a PainterDirected by Christophe CognetUNIFRANCE FILMSChristophe Co…
Film Review: Food Chains
Food ChainsDirected by Sanjay RawalSCREEN MEDIA The ghastly labor practic…
Film Review: Remote Area Medical
Remote Area MedicalDirected by Jeff Reichert, Farihah ZamanCANDESCENT FILMS The…
Film Review: A Will For The Woods
A Will for the WoodsDirected by Amy Browne, Jeremy Kaplan, Tony Hale, and B…
Film Review: The Plot for Peace
The Plot for PeaceDirected by Mandy Jacobson and Carlos AgulloTrinity FilmJean-Y…
Film Review: The Connection
The ConnectionDirected by Shannon HarveyElemental MediaJournalist Shannon Harvey…
Film Review: Pelican Dreams
Pelican DreamsDirected by Judy IrvingIn 2005, in The Wild Parrots of Telegraph H…
Film Review: Faith Connections
Faith ConnectionsDirected by Pan NalinThe Hindu pilgrimage and ritual of the Kum…
Telling the Story of Europe's Roma
A new film explores the struggle of “Gypsies” in the Holocaust and today.
Creative Clash
Director Jessica Habie speaks about her new film Mars at Sunrise, her story of imprisoned Palestinian painter Khaled, and his Israeli interrogator Eyal, himself a frustrated artist.
Film Review: Band of Sisters
This new documentary by debut filmmaker Mary Fishman offers an informative look …
Film Review: Symphony of the Soil
Symphony of the SoilDirected by Deborah Koons GarciaIn theory, director Deborah …
Film Review: Zaytoun
Directed by Eran Riklis In Israeli director Eran Riklis’s sensitive drama, Fahe…
Film Review: Inuk
Directed by Mike Magidson Inuk opens on a haunting scene from its protagonist’s…
Film Review: GMO OMG
Directed by Jeremy Seifert Jeremy Seifert’s advocacy documentary GMO OMG isn’t …
Film Review: Unacceptable Levels - Do You Know What's in Your Water Supply?
DIRECTED BY ED BROWN Director Ed Brown is not your typical activist, nor is he …
Free the Mind
Directed by Phie AmboWe’ve seen plenty of documentaries that seek to reveal the …
Bidder 70
Directed by Beth Gage and George GageIn 2008, the environmental activist Tim DeC…
Hannah Arendt
Directed by Margarethe von TrottaMargarethe von Trotta’s new film about the secu…
A Fierce Green Fire
Directed by Mark KitchellMark Kitchell’s documentary about the history of the en…
Free China: The Courage to Believe
Directed by Michael PerlmanThe crackdown in China on practitioners of the spirit…
Elemental
Directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Gayatri RoshanElemental traces the stories …
Kon Tiki
Directed by Joachim Ronning, Espen SandbergKONTIKIFILMEN.COMNorwegian adventurer…
The Other Side of the Ice
Directed by Sprague TheobaldNORTHWESTPASSAGEFILM.COMIn 2009, author and fil…
To the Wonder
Directed by Terrence MalickMAGPICTURES.COM/TOTHEWONDERTo the wonder, an ethereal…
Hava Nagila
Directed by Roberta GrossmanHAVANAGILAMOVIE.COMEverybody knows the song “Ha…
Chasing Ice
Directed by Jeff OrlowskiChasingIce.comNever has so much beauty held this much d…
Doctored
Directed by Bobby SheehanDoctoredTheMovie.comThe battle between the medical prof…
Decoding Deepak
Directed by Gotham ChopraSnagfilms.com/DecodingDeepakAlthough it was shot by his…
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
The catastrophe of American health care is so broad and deep that any attempt to…
Sushi: The Global Catch
Mark Hall's film is a curious, two-headed beast: It starts off exploring the wor…
Yogawoman
Saraswati Clere and Kate Clere McIntyre’s documentary marvels at the way th…
