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Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary review: America is burning (LFF 2018)

Tue, Oct 23, 2018
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In his latest righteous broadside, Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump as but a symptom of the political rot in the United States. Upsetting, enraging, exhausting… which is just as it should be.

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Science Fair documentary review: these kids today, with their changing the world…

Fri, Sep 28, 2018
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Meet some of the most brilliant teenagers alive, high-school students from all over the world competing at the World Cup of genius geekery. Funny, sobering, and inspiring.

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Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. documentary review: the multiple identities of a modern artist

Wed, Sep 26, 2018
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A tremendous backgrounder, intimate and personal, on the massively popular — and massively political — hip-hop artist. Here is the source of all her anger and passion, and here is why she needs to be heard.

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Jane Fonda in Five Acts documentary review: the political is her personal

Sun, Sep 23, 2018
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An extraordinarily intimate and perceptive new biography of the legendary actor and activist. Fonda reveals insecurities and anxieties that are achingly raw and very personal, but which many women will see themselves in.

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Tea with the Dames (aka Nothing Like a Dame) documentary review: legends speak

Thu, Sep 20, 2018
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Come sit next to Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, and Eileen Atkins and eavesdrop on their witty banter, amiable swearing, and grand tales of their stage and film careers.

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Do You Trust This Computer? documentary review: artificial intelligence is already here

Fri, Aug 17, 2018
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This slick gloss on the state of AI is frustratingly scattershot and won’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention. But its warnings about how we’ve dealt with huge and rapid scientific leaps before are worthy ones.

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93Queen documentary review: women are doing it for themselves

Wed, Jul 25, 2018
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An enormously entertaining portrait of Hasidic women who started their own all-female EMS team in Brooklyn. Eye-opening and stereotype-shattering.

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Whitney documentary review: an 80s icon contemplated, venerated, mourned

Tue, Jul 03, 2018
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Deeply moving, truly tragic; a biography with a keenly journalistic but hugely sympathetic eye. Powerful compassion and a get-up-and-dance deployment of Houston’s music may well bring her a new generation of fans.

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Eating Animals documentary review: where’s the beef (coming from)?

Fri, Jun 15, 2018
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The philosophical and the sentimental trump the practical in this exposé of factory farming that, while effective in showing us the horrors, offers only simplistic solutions.

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Studio 54 documentary review: inside the velvet ropes

Wed, Jun 13, 2018
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A hugely entertaining exploration of the mythology of the legendary nightclub as something truly worth celebrating, and a towering Scorsese-esque drama of the men who invented it brought down by hubris.

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