Review: ‘Migrant Dreams’
Min Sook Lee's Migrant Dreams operates in the classic model of activist documentary filmmaking.
Review: ‘Nuts!’
Penny Lane's Nuts! is a thoroughly entertaining, inventive documentary about John R. Brinkley, a turn-of-the-20th century quack doctor.
Review: ‘CodeGirl’
As the inspiring new doc CodeGirl shows, there’s a wealth of brilliant young women ripe for the tech industry.
Review: ‘Almost Holy’
In Almost Holy, Steve Hoover observes the work of Gennadiy “Pastor Crocodile” Mokhnenko, a priest who runs an orphanage for street children.
Review: ‘Frackman’
Frackman doesn’t really offer anything new to the fracking cause, although the film gives an admirable portrait of a committed activist.
Review: ‘The Pearl Button’
In The Pearl Button, Patricio Guzmán wades deep into the complex colonial history of his native Chile considering the nation's shoreline.
Review: ‘The Uncondemned’
In The Uncondemned, Michele Mitchell and the late Nick Louvel tackle the complexity of trying rape as a war crime.
Review: ‘I Am Sun Mu’
I Am Sun Mu is a bold and compelling portrait of an artist fighting a totalitarian system and triumphing through his work.
Review: ‘The Infinite Happiness’
The Infinite Happiness shows that some of the most satisfying elements of urban life aren’t to be found in concrete jungles.
DocLit: ‘Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic’
On Jean Bruce and Gerda Cammaer’s monograph Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic about Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman's 1992 doc.