The true-crime docs here expose the rot at the core of many of our venerated institutions.
The film essentially indulges in the same act of willful distractedness as Ted Bundy’s admirers.
Berlinger discusses why audiences have responded so well to his latest documentary.
The global lack of knowledge that’s resulted from Turkey’s denial campaign is more amnesia than ignorance.
Director Joe Berlinger essentially allows his subject, Tony Robbins, to hijack the documentary for his own end.
It seems too enamored with the seductive notion of an honorable criminal, too ready to take Bulger’s justifications as actual indications of his relative innocence.
The film’s most egregious flaws are freely (and somewhat hilariously) pointed out by Joe Berlinger in his DVD commentary track.
The Paradise Lost trilogy is a somewhat unsung masterpiece of contemporary American cinema.
Joe Berlinger’s Under African Skies is a positive breather after the heaviness of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.
Under African Skies is a positive breather after the heaviness of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.
In recent years, Academy members have repeatedly favored the most high-profile, buzzed-about doc in this category, from The Cove to Man on Wire to March of the Penguins.
Crude is both a tribute to human-rights tenacity and a sobering account of the multinational-Moloch greed that can keep justice in limbo.
Crude is both a tribute to human-rights tenacity and a sobering account of the multinational-Moloch greed that can keep justice in limbo.
The final farewell to a television masterpiece.
Turns out, Some Kind of Monster isn’t so such a “rock ‘n’ roll movie” as much as it is two hours of couple’s therapy.