George Gage’s Bidder 70 is a highly inspirational account of American climate activist Tim DeChristopher.
Beneath the quiet sadness of these characters’ lives are spikes of national sentiment.
With Bitter Seeds, director Micha Peled completes his “globalization trilogy.”
U.N. Me isn’t all sneering, and it certainly makes its points.
Like its obvious inspirations, The Mighty Ducks and Cool Runnings, Crooked Arrows is an easily digestible family entertainment.
The film is a tender, painful and frustrating work of vulnerability, and because of this in some ways deflects critical commentary.
American Animal, like The Color Wheel, is the product of a generation that’s probably seen more movies than any other.
The way Nesting goes out of its way to tell us where it’s set is symptomatic of the film in general.
While very informative, Inventing Our Life doesn’t work as an introduction to kibbutzim because it requires the viewer to have some prior knowledge of the history of Israel.
Surviving Progress exquisitely presents to us the possibility that humankind’s achievements may cause its downfall.
Bully wastes no time getting to the heart of its subject matter and convincing us that something has to change.
The Trouble with Bliss plays out, to put it most complimentary, like a dull, slower moving After Hours.
What An Encounter with Simone Weil is more than anything is a document of the unsettling effects philosophy can have on one’s mind and spirit.
It’s like a feather in the wind compared to the rigid, fact-heavy way most documentaries might survey Ugandan society.
Filmmakers Allan Sekula and Noël Burch more or less show us how the sea is capitalism’s global trading floor writ large.
The film manages to be an entertaining and faithful expansion on the original material while being inconsequential to it.
Classifiable somewhere between self-congratulation for a life bursting at the seams with success and a call to action.
As a film shot from the blatantly personal perspective of its filmmakers, It’s About You strengthens the bond between musician and fan.
It’s the typical, from-the-archives, scrapbook approach that makes Corman’s World the safe bet that it is.
Times have changed, and possibly for the worse.