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War Games Without Frontiers

June 7, 2021 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Dror Moreh, Israel, Palestine, The Gatekeepers, The Human Factor

A new, sometimes heartbreaking documentary about the cyclical struggle for peace in the Middle East

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J Balvin Tries to Become a Man in ‘The Boy From Medellin’

May 20, 2021May 24, 2021 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Reggaeton, The Boy From Medellin

In an uninspiring doc, Reggaeton’s most apolitical star prepares for the biggest concert of his life

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‘Sasquatch’ is about Sasquatch…and Then it Isn’t

May 19, 2021May 25, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Bigfoot, Hulu, Sasquatch, Three Identical Strangers

Don’t blame a cryptid for your weed murders

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Documentary Captures the Real ‘Hemingway’

April 27, 2021May 12, 2021 Michael Washburn 3 Comments A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast, Edna O'Brien, Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Toll, Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Martha Gellhorn, Tobias Wolff

Ken Burns’s film avoids hagiography as it weighs a writer’s virtues and flaws

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‘Hysterical’ Tells the Truth About Women in Comedy

April 20, 2021April 23, 2021 Mia McCullough 0 Comments Andrea Nevins, Fortune Feimster, Hannah Gadsby, Hysterical, Iliza Shlesinger, Judy Gold, Kathy Griffin, Kelly Bachman, Margaret Cho, Marina Franklin, Nikki Glaser, Sherri Shepherd, Tig Notaro

More female comics are thriving than ever, but the playing field is still uneven

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Why ‘My Octopus Teacher’ Will School the Oscars

April 16, 2021April 28, 2021 Stephen Garrett 1 Comment Collective, Craig Foster, Crip Camp, James Reed, March of the Penguins, My Octopus Teacher, Netflix, Octopussy, Pippa Erlich, The Mole Agent

The Academy loves New Age high-concept documentaries

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‘The Last Blockbuster’ Ignores the Fact that Blockbuster Video was Terrible

March 29, 2021April 5, 2021 Paula Shaffer 3 Comments Blockbuster Video, Kevin Smith, Lloyd Kaufman, The Last Blockbuster, Troma Entertainment

It destroyed independent video stores, and censored movies

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Billie Eilish is a Little Blurry

March 24, 2021March 29, 2021 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Billie Eilish, Madonna, The World's A Little Blurry, Truth or Dare

The documentary of a modern popstar for the people, totally in control

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‘Nationtime’ and ‘Jazz On A Summer’s Day’

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 Michael Giltz 1 Comment Amiri Baraka, Anita O'Day, Bert Parks, Betty Shabazz, Chuck Berry, Coretta Scott King, Harry Belafonte, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Jesse Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Nationtime, Newport Jazz Festival, Sidney Poitier, William Greaves

Time for two great reissued documentaries

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‘Last Chance U’ Season 6 is a Slam Dunk

March 18, 2021March 31, 2021 Jon Hart 0 Comments East Los Angeles College, John Mosley, Last Chance U, Netflix

The focus switches to college basketball in time for March Madness

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The Poetry of Biggie Smalls

March 9, 2021March 12, 2021 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Biggie Smalls, I Got A Story To Tell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kurt Vonnegut, MTV, Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die

Netflix’s Notorious B.I.G. documentary is a great origin story, but doesn’t talk enough about Biggie’s lyrics

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One-Sided HBO Documentary Convicts Woody Allen

February 23, 2021July 7, 2021 Michael Washburn 4 Comments Allen v. Farrow, Amy Ziering, Dylan Farrow, Harvey Weinstein, Kirby Dick, Manhattan, Mia Farrow, Roman Polanski, Ronan Farrow, Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen

Film about abuse charges doesn’t pretend to be impartial

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Rita Moreno and ‘Flee’ Highlight Sundance Documentary Offerings

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Edgar Wright, Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Marilyn Agrelo, Misha and the Wolves, Rebel Hearts, Rita Moreno, Searchers, Sesame Street, Sundance Film Festival, The Sparks Brothers

Introverts have many choices at this year’s stay-at-home festival

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Sundance 2021: Totally Virtual, but Still Kicking

January 29, 2021January 30, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments In The Same Breath, Questlove, Summer of Soul, Sundance Film Festival

With opening night documentaries–and screening shut-outs–Sundance is as vital and aggravating as ever

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The Tragedy of Karl Edward Wagner

January 28, 2021June 29, 2021 Michael Washburn 9 Comments Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Robert E. Howard, S.T. Joshi, The Last Wolf

Documentary explores the decline of a cult horror and fantasy writer

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