Above: "Do Not Expect Too Much For The End of the World" (My favorite film of the year.)
(in the order that I saw them; unless dated it was a 2024 release)
Undercover Girl (1950)
Timebomb Y2K
Onlookers
Edward Hopper (PBS)
Napoleon (2023)
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023)
The Curse (Season 1)
True Detective (Season 4)
Next Goal Wins (2023)
June (2023)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Ferrari (2023)
Fallen Leaves (2023)
Madame...
Here are brief reviews of some of my favorite films from this month's DOC NYC festival.
"My Sweet Land" is a briskly paced, beautifully edited portrait of an 11-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian boy caught with his family in the series of wars against Azerbaijan which have greatly reduced the land that was once part of Armenia. The boy is remarkably positive given the circumstances and follows...
A follow-up to the 2020 documentary "#Unfit: The Psychology Of Donald Trump," "#Untruth: The Psychology Of Trumpism" continues to examine the authoritarian strategy and...
"Modernism, Inc." is a new documentary about legendary American designer and architect Eliot Noyes. You don’t have to be a fan of mid-century modernism,...
Anytime Martin Scorsese talks film I’m glued to the screen. If you’ve seen his own documentaries “A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American...
Two documentaries about the coal industry’s ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in the Appalachian mountains are required viewing for anyone who cares...
“Emergent City” documents the struggle of longtime residents of the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York to stop the Jamestown investment group from...
There are so many documentaries which profile a single person–an artist, musician, writer, politician–or group of allied people that I find it useful to...
When Americans think of cheese it is usually cheese burgers or those horrible cellulose “cheesy poofs” beloved by Cartman in “South Park.” Orange, mild...