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December 2015

December 29, 2015

Josh Wartel: My Year in Movies

At the start of 2015 I set out to watch 120 films and I met...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Because I Was a Painter (Cognet, 2014)

In contemplating art by concentration camp survivors, this austere yet affecting documentary offers a novel...

April 19, 2015

In Country (Attie and O’Hara, 2014)

War reenactment…huh…yeah…what is it good for? “Possibly something,” is the reply emanating from this documentary...

April 12, 2015

2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Day 3: Outsider Art, Afghan Archeology, African Democracy, and the Black Panthers

My last day in Durham featured documentaries about artwork by institutionalized psychiatric patients, an imperiled...

April 11, 2015

2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Day 2: Afghan Soldiers, Evel Knievel, and an Unconventional Marriage

Today’s documentaries showed us brave filmmaking in Afghanistan, a flawed biography of a legendary American...

April 10, 2015

2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Day 1: Lies, Tigers, and Mountains, Oh My!

Today’s trio of films featured a journey inside the deceiving mind, as well as adventures...

March 2015

March 29, 2015

Red Army (Polsky, 2014)

This briskly paced documentary about Soviet hockey excels both as a gripping personal story and...

March 22, 2015

Do You Believe? (Gunn, 2015)

While lacking the full-court press anti-intellectualism of its predecessor, this new movie from the makers...

March 10, 2015

Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) — 10 Years Later

Revisiting "Brokeback Mountain" after 10 years feels a bit like an archeological dig. After all,...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Farewell to Hollywood (Corra and Nicholson, 2015)

This documentary about the relationship between a filmmaker and his dying young protégée is both...

February 22, 2015

McFarland, USA (Caro, 2015)

“McFarland, USA” may not deviate much from the underdog sports movie playbook. But it’s so...

February 14, 2015

Rocks in my Pockets (Baumane, 2014)

Cliché alert! Signe Baumane’s debut feature film is an instant classic, thanks to evocative, inventive...

February 08, 2015

Match (Belber, 2014)

Now available for home viewing, Patrick Stewart comes down to earth in this solid drama,...

February 01, 2015

As It is in Heaven (Overbay, 2014)

With his debut feature, director Joshua Overbay has created an intriguing story of a tiny...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2014)

Deservedly nominated for multiple Oscars, "Foxcatcher" achieves maximal creepiness with this tragic tale of a...

January 21, 2015

American Sniper (Eastwood, 2014)

With "American Sniper," Clint Eastwood has created a movie of integrity, exploring the nature of...

January 09, 2015

Virunga (von Einsiedel, 2014)

Virtue, venality, and vocation are all abundantly on display in "Virunga," a suspense-filled Netflix documentary...

January 02, 2015

Big Eyes (Burton, 2014)

Despite a strong start and source material with immense potential, Tim Burton’s film quickly squanders...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

My 15 Favorite Films of 2014

No doubt I’m far from the only person who skips the intros to these lists...

December 22, 2014

Wild (Jean-Marc Vallee, 2014)

Director Jean-Marc Vallee, screenwriter Nick Hornby, and actors Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern combine superbly...

December 20, 2014

The Appalachian Trail: An American Legacy (Sam Henegar, 2014)

This brief documentary appealingly serves up a history lesson, along with plenty of lovely outdoor...

December 20, 2014

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me (dir. James Keach, 2014)

James Keach’s “fly on the wall” documentary covering Glen Campbell’s farewell tour succeeds as a...

December 17, 2014

If You Don’t, I Will (Fillieres, 2014)

Though it takes a while to gain momentum, Emmanuelle Devos and Mathieu Amalric once again...

December 13, 2014

Ridley Scott’s “Exodus”: An Unbeliever’s Perspective

"Exodus: Gods and Kings" is a DeMille-worthy spectacle, but an intellectually incoherent mess.