On one hand, Pretend It’s a City is an engaging portrait of Fran Lebowitz, but on the other, it’s an essential time capsule of pre-COVID city life. I haven’t laughed so heartily
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Netflix doc Shawn Mendes: In Wonder doesn’t play strictly for fans, but his core followers will most appreciate this backstage glimpse of his 2019 concert tour and look at his forthcoming album
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As documentary filmmakers increasingly adopted the narrative structure and storytelling strategies of fiction films, fiction filmmakers reciprocated, borrowing heavily from the documentary form to imbue their works with a greater sense of
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Tatyana McFadden, subject and producer of Netflix’s Rising Phoenix, discusses her film about the history of the Paralympic Games and Paralympians’ fight for equity and visibility.
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Tiger King is the perfect series for our times. A show about narcissists with no sense of self-awareness, rampant cruelty masquerading as morality and law and order, all soaking in a philosophy
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Netflix reclaims its true crime credence with The Innocence Files. After the hugely entertaining, but highly flawed and ethically dubious, quarantine sensation of Tiger King comes this nine-part feat of investigative rigour. The Innocence Files admittedly lacks the
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Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (USA, 104 min.) Dir. James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham The Obamas had a high bar to meet after American Factory won the Oscar, but Crip Camp grabs it. The film marks the
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