Motor City channels the spirit of the vigilante films and other exploitation genres of the 1970s.
Sue Williams’s obvious sincerity for her subjects is undermined by a whitewashing aesthetic.
The historical and the personal converge in Godfrey Cheshire’s documentary.
The filmmakers have padded their running time with gracefully choreographed but needlessly long, convoluted action scenes.
Well, The Wire is over and Omar will never get another pack of Newports—wait, spoilers?
I’m sure Contempt was something to see in 1963.
Funny Games writer-director Michael Haneke is a clever guy.
Fleshed out with excellent archival footage, Sputnik Mania organizes itself on a timeline with Sputnik as the center point.
Wonderful Town is contemplative cinema with nothing to contemplate.
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? builds something magical and immense from its miniature, material means.
The film is an oblique rumination on the psychological and emotional wreckage wrought by years of war in Beirut.
Trouble the Water was prompted by the outrage felt by two documentarians at the catastrophe unfolding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
This look at global b-boying (otherwise known as breakdancing) hews closely to a familiar, pat formula.
Wetlands Preserved understands the unifying power of music-as-activism.
The Brave One reduces our experience of the world with its drab and unimaginative aesthetic presentation.
Brillante Mendoza’s Foster Child is actually a home-movie tour de force.
Li’s monomaniacal insistence on showing the dark despair lurking in the unheralded corners of Chinese society achieves a strident integrity.
Like any effective polemic, Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro’s documentary is almost as canny as it is facile in construction.
Pierre Salvadori’s re-imagining of Breakfast at Tiffany’s wears its contempt on its sleeve.
Because the film trades in vagueness, the actions of its characters can only be appraised in the most general of ways.
The flashes of life outside La Zona never deepen the story’s discourse, at times actually muddling it.