The Crash Reel review (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
Dangerous sports smacks up against towering ambition in this sensationally accomplished documentary to ask a universal question: How far do you go in order to be who you were born to be?
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Rafea: Solar Mama review (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
Hugely hopeful documentary about women unleashing their potential and putting into practice small-scale, realistic solutions to enormous problems.
The House I Live In review: incarceration nation
Whatever your politics, you will find things to astonish and flabbergast and enrage you in this cool-headed examination of America’s War on Drugs.
monkey in the middle (Chimpanzee review)
Cuteness proximity alert! Cuteness proximity alert!
The Gatekeepers documentary review: secret police speak out
The Oscar-nominated documentary in which the six living former heads of Israel’s ultrasecretive domestic security agency talk about their antiterrorism work…
A Fierce Green Fire (review)
How, in a few short decades, we’ve gone from “Save the Whales” to “Save the Humans (as Well as the Whales, Obviously)”…
The Invisible War (review)
An enraging film, as it is meant to be, and not just because it is a military microcosm of rape culture at large.
How to Survive a Plague (review)
A glorious ode to the supposition that a small group of committed people can change the world, and a reminder that the work is not yet done…
5 Broken Cameras documentary review
A horrific portrait of everyday life on the West Bank, yet one also powerfully warm, funny, and human…
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God documentary review
“Angry” doesn’t even begin to cover how this film makes me feel. It probably won’t cover you, either.
