Advanced Style documentary review: life as art
There’s not much here beyond sass, but it is a genuine pleasure to spend time with women who are growing, changing, and living into their 70s, 80s, and 90s.
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20,000 Days on Earth documentary review: how to make art and live life
An unclassifably weird hybrid of documentary, fiction, and stream-of-consciousness meditation on the creative life, according to Renaissance man Nick Cave.
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz documentary review: threat to the system
An essential — and enraging — documentary about activist Aaron Swartz, a danger to corporate hegemony whose work could not be allowed to continue.
Rich Hill documentary review: American dysfunction
A portrait of American poverty in which compassion for its subjects is matched only by a caustic rage at the utter collapse of the American dream.
Dinosaur 13 documentary review: long Black Hills road
A bittersweet reminder that while the scientific method may be coolly rational, the people who do science are deeply emotionally caught up in their work.
Finding Vivian Maier documentary review: secret art comes into the light
An extraordinary examination of a remarkable photographer, part portrait unraveled by meticulous detective work, part sharp criticism of the hidebound art establishment.
Life Itself documentary review: he found it at the movies
A touching biography, and an accidental look at the tremendous upheaval that journalism has weathered in the past half century.
The Unknown Known documentary review: let Rumsfeld tell you his evil plan
This documentary interview with Bush-era insider Donald Rumsfeld is like a horror movie with a calm sociopath at its center.
Forgotten Men documentary review: antiwar hopes from between the wars
This 1934 English antiwar propaganda film is a fascinating and, in retrospect, bittersweet document of the brief era between WWI and WWII.
112 Weddings documentary review: after the party ends
A startling and welcome breath of reality for an institution overladen by fantasy in our culture. Happily ever after is hard!
