Three Promises (2024) ‘DocPoint Film Festival’ Documentary Review – Piercingly Vital Act of Remembrance
There’s no end to the horrors shown in Yousef Srouji’s documentary, Three Promises. The mind-numbing barbarity that besieges every family…
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Celine Dion’s Documentary Offers a Raw, Intimate Portrayal of a Pivotal Phase in the Artist’s Life
Celine Dion’s Documentary: When an artist gains fans and followers, it becomes their responsibility to hold on to their confidence…
In A Dissent Manner (2023) Documentary Review: A Hard-Hitting Display of Student Protests and State Brutality
At the very outset of Ehraz Zaman’s documentary, “In A Dissent Manner,” we are treated to an aerial perspective capturing…
Dario Argento Panico (2024) Documentary Review – Flawed Overview of One of the Great Horror Auteurs Despite an Interesting Exploration of His Later-Era Works
Simone Scafidi, the director of “Dario Argento Panico,” is like a little child who has grown up with the films…
The Greatest Night in Pop (2024) ‘Sundance’ Documentary Review – Capturing the Greatest Night in Pop Music with a Vibrant and Frothy Gaze
On the night of January 28, 1985, A&M Studios in Los Angeles became the playing ground of some of the…
Earth Mama (2023) Movie Review: Touching and Emotive Drama Disguised through a Documentary Aesthetic
“Earth Mama” tells the dishearteningly harrowing story of Gia, a pregnant single mother embroiled in a struggle to reclaim her…
On the Adamant (2023) ‘KIFF’ Review: Nicolas Philibert’s Documentary about a Parisian Day-Care Boat Asks us to Care More Deeply
There’s a quietly observed non-invasiveness that permeates Nicolas Philibert’s latest documentary, On the Adamant (Original Title: Sur l’Adamant.) Characters are…
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South to Black Power (2023) Documentary Review: An Intriguing Manifesto to Expunge Systemic Racism
Peabody Award winners Llewellyn M. Smith and Sam Pollard’s (MLK/FBI) documentary, South to Black Power (2023), explores the theory New…
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (2021) Documentary Review – An empowering albeit simplistic portrait of an unacknowledged eco-activist
Jim Becket, Camilla Becket’s The Seeds of Vandana Shiva is an important documentary, not because it sheds light on one…