A work of vanity and ego that tries and fails mightily to look like it’s about a famous person’s social advocacy, Matthew Heineman’s documentary The Boy from Medellín isn’t anything more than a somewhat well intentioned pat on the back to its subject, reggaeton superstar J Balvin.
Matthew Heineman
With A Private War, a biopic about the life and work of war journalist Marie Colvin, director Matthew Heineman makes a convincing and confident leap from documentaries to dramatic storytelling, and Rosamund Pike delivers what might go down as her best performance to date.