Reviews tagged: documentary

Naza
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Naza

The documentary filmmakers from “No Other Land” return with a harrowing follow-up. Anonymous Israeli soldiers, filmed on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, describe the systematic targeting of civilians in Gaza with a chilling ma

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

The decades-later sequel coasts on cheap nostalgia and celebrity cameos Comedy sequels are notorious for the fall in quality, this is magnified especially with decades-later sequels, which seem more intent on cashing in

Piece By Piece
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Piece By Piece

The Pharrell Williams Lego documentary is enjoyable if biased Music biopics employ such a rote and tired structure that it was parodied as far back as This is Spinal Tap (1984) and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007).

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Laura Poitras’ look into Nan Goldin’s life is a stunning stylistic balancing act Laura Poitras has been a director who’s been prescient about the pulsating crises of our times. From her jaw-dropping documentary Citizenfo

Flee
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Flee

This moving documentary pushes the limits of its genre While film genres seem to have been completely defined, it is an artist’s job to push such limits and defy convention. Something curious is happening in the document

They Shall Not Grow Old
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They Shall Not Grow Old

Peter Jackson has been pioneering new technologies in film since his Lord of the Rings movies introduced an incredibly credible motion-capture character with Gollum. The New Zealand native has built an empire around his