The New Yorker at 100 (2025) Documentary Review: An Intimate Portrait of a Century-Old Literary Giant
Go to any newspaper or magazine kiosk in a country, which is a staple of its reading community, and one…
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The Lions by the River Tigris (2025) ‘DOC NYC’ Documentary Review: A Gloomy Yet Absorbing Portrait of People Restoring Pieces of Their Past
“The Lions by the River Tigris” (2025) invites us to a world that has usually been shown through a one-sided…
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising (2025) Documentary Review: A Riveting and Somber Look into the Systemic Issues Affecting Indigenous Communities in Canada
Shane Belcourt and Tanya Talaga’s documentary, “Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising” (2025), takes us closer to understanding a revolutionary act of…
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be (2024) Documentary Review: A Photographer’s Eternal but Painful Quest for Self-discovery and Belonging
Klára Tasovská’s “I’m Not Everything I Want to Be” (Jeste nejsem, kým chci být, 2024) offers a searing account of…
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (2025) Documentary Review: Tracing the Real Authorship of a Photograph that Allegedly Ended the Vietnam War
A screaming, small girl with her hands raised in the air, her clothes burnt to the last thread, with smoke…
Flophouse America (2025) ‘DOC NYC’ Documentary Review: An Unfiltered Visceral Look into America’s Housing Crisis
Monica Strømdahl’s documentary “Flophouse America” (2025) follows an American family affected by the ongoing US housing crisis, which forces them to…
A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant (2025) Documentary Review: A timely look back at a dying art form and an artist who never flinched
Pat Oliphant believed that a cartoonist – especially one whose pencils often numb the pain of repression under the guise…
Endless Cookie (2025) Documentary Review: Trippy, Imaginative, and Heartwarming, Often in the Same Breath
Filmmaking can be considered inherently autobiographical, since it allows artists to present their individual perspective, even when the stories are…
Arrest the Midwife (2025) ‘DOC NYC’ Documentary Review: A Critical but Moving Illustration of Present-Day Threats to Reproductive Rights
Elaine Epstein’s new documentary “Arrest the Midwife” offers a personal look into an ongoing fight from midwives to continue working…