My Octopus Teacher [2020] Netflix Review: An Extraordinarily Beautiful Documentary
After watching yet another documentary about the natural world close on the heels of David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet (2020), I…
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Enemies of the State [2020]: ‘TIFF’ Review – Bizarre hacktivist documentary unravels that everything is political
Movies about hackers have often untwisted some obnoxious truths. The 2014 documentary Citizenfour saw Laura Poitras investigate the incredible story…
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The Thin Blue Line [1988] Review – A Thought-Provoking and Formally Innovative Documentary
“The Thin Blue Line was one of Errol Morris’ widely seen documentaries and also a commercial success.” Errol Morris is…
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The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On [1987] Review – An Uncannily Brilliant Documentary on War-Inflicted Trauma
Reactions on Kazuo Hara and the unflinching documentaries he makes can be widely divisive. Some may call him a genius,…
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Crip Camp [2020] Netflix Review – An Uplifting Documentary on Disability Rights Movement
Winner of the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival and executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher…
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Nanook of the North [1922] Review – A Quasi-Documentary Classic on the Ever-Smiling Eskimo
The complicated legacy of D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) is very well known to any cinephile: it showcased…
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Ram Ke Naam [1992] Documentary Review – A Cop-out take on 1992 Riot
Ram Ke Naam/ In The Name of Ram There are three ways to approach a documentary according to me:- as…
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The Cordillera of Dreams [2019]: ‘KVIFF’ Review – A Piercingly Elegiac Documentary on Landscape and Memory
“The Cordillera of Dreams (‘La Cordillera de los suenos’, 2019) once again explores the majesty of Chile’s landscapes set against…
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Ice on Fire [2019] Review – A Climate Change Documentary Laced with Hope
Leila Conners’ Ice on Fire (2019) is both a wake-up call and a call to action documentary that (once again)…