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Tag: Documentary

News from Home (1976)

Documentary Rated NR

“…an audacious, brilliant reinvention of what a movie can be.”

Italianamerican (1974)

Documentary Rated NR

“…an unfussy, unfiltered document.”

My Octopus Teacher (2020)

Documentary Rated G

“You’re guaranteed to come away with new respect for the octopus as a species…”

The Truffle Hunters (2020)

Documentary Rated PG-13

“…beautiful, but also personable.”

Boys State (2020)

Documentary Rated PG-13

“A thoroughly depressing portrait of American teen masculinity, Texas politics, and the overall state of democracy…”

Gunda (2020)

Documentary Rated G

“Charlotte’s Web meets slow cinema…”

Feels Good Man (2020)

Documentary Rated NR

“A documentary reclamation project…”

Time (2020)

Documentary Rated PG-13

“…both a testament and an indictment.”

David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020)

Documentary Rated NR

“…thrums equally with Dada despair and do-the-right-thing agitprop.”

Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

Documentary Rated PG-13

“…a reprieve from mortality, even as it’s creatively immersed in it.”

Recent Reviews

A House of Dynamite (2025)

Thriller Rated R

“The score by Volker Bertelmann has moments that are the audio equivalent of your stomach dropping out.”

The Loveless (1981)

Drama Rated R

“… curious about underbelly imagery—and the psychic pull such things can have on us.”

Out of Africa (1985)

Drama Rated PG

“It’s no coincidence that the movie came out two years after clothing retailer The Gap bought Banana Republic…”


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