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...