A poignant look at emotional depletion and challenged faith, A Still Small Voice is one of the most moving documentaries made during the recent pandemic era about people struggling to …
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Director Benoît Bringer investigates a shadowy band of Russian mercenaries responsible for widespread atrocities in the eye opening The Rise of Wagner, a film that shoulders the burden of being …
Director Shannon Alexander examines the apparent supernatural haunting of an everyday family in the thin, only somewhat engaging documentary It’s Coming.
Unusually filmed, but unquestionably intense and captivating, Mexican filmmaker Everardo González’s A Wolfpack Called Ernesto might make viewers question the authenticity of its images, but certainly opens eyes with its …
An experimental documentary with a distinctly lived in feeling, Terra Long’s Feet in Water, Head on Fire uses a peculiar visual sensibility to entrance, educate, and provoke thought.
I’m Just Here for the Riot, a typically great ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, directed by Kathleen Jayme and Asia Youngman, looks at one of the most regrettable, but possibly …
A documentary that would either benefit from a grander scope or further editing, Davide Rizzo and Marzia Toscano’s After the Bridge takes a sorrowful and appropriately heavy look at tragedy …
Messy, but well intentioned, the documentary Food and Country makes some great points about the continued devaluation of farmers, restaurants, and overall nutrition, but the package as a whole leaves …
The Stroll is an astute, wide ranging, and comprehensive oral history of a place and time in New York City that suffered great stigmatization and hardship, but also one that …
Accomplished documentary filmmaker Penny Lane turns the camera on herself for the funny and emotionally charged Confessions of Good Samaritan, a look at her attempts to give back to the …