By a certain point, Raoul Peck’s Shakespearean grandeur turns to shrugging ludicrousness.
It feels obnoxiously privileged to mock a movie haunted by the ghosts of so many real people.
Long after the film's smart, case-specific rallying cries dissipate, we may find that its structure subtly raises perennial questions about justice.
The film is a portrait of the core of a nation in possibly permanent exile.
The film is a sharp, damning cry against societal indifference to the increasingly dire circumstances of India’s farmers.
Carol Dysinger’s documentary is clear-eyed and ultimately mournful.
How does a nation cope when a civil war? How does it heal?
Mostly we just listen, to people on both sides of the divide and to women who are caught in the middle.
Landon Van Soest’s documentary is often bleakly resigned to the limits of resistance.
The directors’ judicious patience with their subjects allows them to capture some remarkable storytelling.
Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter probes the subaltern core of Mali’s feminine psychology.
Naftaly Gliksberg forgoes providing highly personal context that might have made up for the haphazard nature of his inquiry.
Reconciliation is the watchword for the villagers in My Neighbor, My Killer whether they like it or not.
The program consists of a collection of short films created by youth from every far-flung corner of the world.
The documentary Back Home Tomorrow blazes out of the gates with a form/content double-shot.
What would another occupation bring, and when will Israel and the U.S. join 111 nations in signing a cluster-bomb ban agreement?
Unfortunately, Masha Novikova’s documentary doesn’t sizzle like its title, but merely fizzles out.
Barmak Akram depicts his milieu and its inhabitants as struggling to face the obligations that arise from their complicated circumstances.
Director Aida Begic does well in establishing her protagonist’s dogged labor as grief put into memorial, kinetic action.
Crude is both a tribute to human-rights tenacity and a sobering account of the multinational-Moloch greed that can keep justice in limbo.