Koch (review)
Historically compelling, journalistically rigorous, and bursting with Essence of Koch…
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West of Memphis (London Film Festival review)
Public perception and police misconduct take well-deserved raps here, as do larger issues of American injustice…
Chasing Ice (review)
Could this be the thing that finally makes the doubters wake up and smell the global warming? (new DVD UK)
Undefeated (review)
Extraordinary in how it turns upside-down the typical feel-good, triumph-of-the-underdogs tropes of the subgenre…
The Queen of Versailles (review)
Ends up an ever less slightly ungenerous look at the .01 percent than it might have been absent the 2008 financial crash, because even the uberwealthy get stressed when money gets tight. But this is still a brutal film from many angles.
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (review)
There is no question that Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and vocal dissident of China’s repressive dictatorship, is one of the most colorful and most significant global figures of the early 21st century…
Searching for Sugar Man documentary review: musical mystery
I can’t remember the last film that rocked my world like this extraordinary documentary does. A magnificent detective story, bursting with a thrilling sense of mystery and of artistic discovery.
African Cats (review)
A gorgeously photographed, astonishingly intimate look at two big-cat families in the Maasai Mara game preserve in Kenya…
Tatsumi (review)
Singapore’s official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the upcoming Oscars is an animated Japanese-language ode to legendary gekiga artist Yoshiro Tatsumi…
Into the Abyss (review)
Here is the mystery and wonder of Werner Herzog: this is simultaneously his least Herzog-y film and also the most profound expression of Herzog-ness yet…
