The film justly draws attention to the perpetual work that must go into preserving democratic institutions.
The film is well-outfitted with telling, thematically rich shards of historical information.
Obsessed by symbolism and decorum, Greg Barker’s documentary misses the sea change in plain sight.
An Inconvenient Sequel is usually transparent in its unbridled and excessive adulation of Al Gore.
The doc is beholden to the same plethora of taboos, half-truths, and outright lies traded en masse by mainstream conservatism for the last seven years.
Ably leads us through its extensive investigation, faltering only when the camera lingers on Jeremy Scahill for a touch too long at the expense of his interview subjects.
What was once a nasty secret became an open secret and is now common knowledge: The middle class is being squeezed, mostly downward, out of existence.
What very good company Robert Redford keeps indeed.
The ad campaign for Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty is all about the act of snuffing out.
We’re not exactly batting a thousand in this category, but we’re pretty sure we got this year’s winner pegged.
Skiff’s rote filmmaking is fortunately topped by his eye-opening subject matter.
It’s not enough to simply tell gay kids that it gets better. We have to prove it.
Ferguson’s approach mostly focuses on facts, expert opinions, concise explanations of complex concepts, and tough probing of authority figures.
It delivers the message that was missing from the other film from this series that’s playing at the Human Rights Watch festival.
Republican opposition is nothing compared to the realities of offshore drilling.
11/4/08 represents not what happened this past presidential election in the U.S., but rather what happened to the victors.
Caprica’s pilot is ambitious, a bit overflowing with plot threads that beg for resolution
“Kill the bill!” is the new “Drill, baby, drill!”
Just find “Bush” and replace-all with “Obama” and you’ve got the party’s current talking points.
Presidents aren’t prosecutors, and, unless you’re George W. Bush, the executive office doesn’t run the DOJ.