DOC NYC Review: O.J.: Made in America
[This review is part of Flixist’s coverage of DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in America. This year’s festival ...
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Review: We Are the Flesh
Reviewing We Are the Flesh from writer/director Emiliano Rocha Minter is tricky. On the one hand, it’s a deeply flawed film aimed at ...
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BHFF Review: The Master Cleanse
I’m curious how they’re going to market The Master Cleanse. I went into the film knowing very little about it, and many of ...
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Review: My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
There are so many possibilities in My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, the directorial debut of indie comics artist Dash Shaw. ...
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Review: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
The B-Side is an atypical Errol Morris documentary. He doesn’t use the Interrotron at all, his tool that allows interviewees to stare directly ...
BHFF Review: Child Eater
Creating a new face of horror is difficult. For every Jason, Freddy, and Michael Myers, there are countless forgettable imitators. These lower-tier boogeymen ...
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Review: Moonlight
I don’t want to (and am not going to) make this review about the fact that Moonlight is a film about African Americans. ...
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Review: I, Daniel Blake
Bureaucracies make great villains. Faceless and absurd, they operate in such nefarious ways and are perfect machines for dehumanization. Bureaucracies are reliably inefficient, ...
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Review: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Steve James may be incapable of directing a bad documentary. His films includes Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and Life Itself. With Abacus: Small Enough ...
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Review: Fire at Sea
Sometimes I’ll see a movie and that makes me shake my head and say, “Okay, yeah, I get it”. These sorts of movies ...
DOC NYC Review: 13TH
13TH feels like a culmination of Ava DuVernay’s career to this point. The documentary brings together the racial and social history of Selma, ...
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Review: Elle
Elle has been billed as a rape-comedy, but that’s a misnomer. It’s a comedy in the classical sense given the events of the ...