Company Town (Canada, 2020) Dir. Peter Findlay Less than two years ago, in late November 2018, General Motors announced the closing of their automotive plant in Oshawa, ending a century-long commitment to
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Great documentaries are often created through amazing real life characters and Mayye Zayed's Lift Like a Girl has one for the ages in Captain Ramadan.
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The most artistic animation is made as shorts. You’ve got to hand it to Ron Diamond. The veteran producer who heads up Acme Filmworks has been responsible for creating animation shorts in
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Pete Souza, the protagonist of The Way I See It, surely practiced his craft that way for 40 years. The White House photographer for Ronald Reagan in the Eighties and Barack Obama
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The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel is a must-see if only to remind us to avoid the empty messages of hope provided by slick corporate entities.
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King and Hoover are long gone now. So are the Sixties. But Pollard’s lucidly intelligent MLK/FBI shows what happened then: a fatal situation in which a Black man confronted the white establishment.
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One can’t help but be fascinated by Lee’s DJs and their artistry. While the film remains focused on the struggles that these women have endured, there is plenty of room left to
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76 Days is a classic cinema verité doc, which effectively depicts what happened at hospitals in Wuhan, China from February to April in the midst of the pandemic. Plunging us directly into
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All In: The Fight for Democracy is a brilliant piece of advocacy cinema. If you aren’t outraged before you see this doc, you certainly will be when it’s finished.
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