Documentary

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Oct 8
4 min

Acasă, My Home (“Acasă”) ★★★1/2

Beautifully crafted with no talking heads, this documentary is gorgeous, emotionally charged, and challenging.

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Jul 26
4 min

The Truffle Hunters ★★★

These intimate scenes of man and dog capture a world that sharply contrasts with, and that is being lost to, modernity.

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May 16
3 min

Syndrome K ★★

In German-occupied Rome in 1943, a trio of doctors at a Vatican-owned hospital invented malatia K, a ferociously contagious, deadly disease.

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Apr 17
4 min

Crip Camp ★★★★

"Crip Camp" - about “a camp for the handicapped, run by hippies” - is a story that makes for a powerful and intensely personal film.

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Feb 13
3 min

Some Kind of Heaven ★★1/2

Opting for profiles, Oppenheim misses the opportunity to explore how the individual and couple stories relate to life in The Villages.

You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski ★★★

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Dec 1, 2020
3 min

You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski ★★★

The man who emerges from this five-hour, wine- and nicotine-fueled, 1960s-like session...is calm, thoughtful, gracious, clever and funny.

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful ★★★

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Oct 11, 2020
4 min

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful ★★★

The film’s subtitle apparently refers to the “beautiful” bodies Newton photographed and to the “bad” boy who did the work.

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May 30, 2020
4 min

The Painter and the Thief ★★★1/2

Barbora (painter) and Bertil (thief) are complex characters, whose dark, self-destructive, parallel pasts may never be fully revealed.

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Mar 20, 2020
4 min

American Factory ★★★

This 2019 Best Documentary, is the story—at its best—of a clash of cultures when the Chinese re-open an Ohio factory.

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Aug 7, 2019
2 min

They Shall Not Grow Old ★★★1/2

A tender paean to the men who sacrificed their lives, limbs—and sometimes, faces—for what others thought was the greater good.

Bob Wilson's Life and Death of Marina Abramovic ★★★

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Jun 8, 2019
2 min

Bob Wilson's Life and Death of Marina Abramovic ★★★

A nuanced revelation of what it takes to make modernist theater

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Mar 30, 2019
2 min

Won't You Be My Neighbor? ★★★ 1/2

A son describes life with Dad as akin to living with Jesus.

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Feb 15, 2019
2 min

Three Identical Strangers ★★★1/2

They basked in celebrity--and then the glow wore off.

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Feb 12, 2019
2 min

Minding the Gap ★★★ 1/2

The pleasures of speed and risk, and the flight from the emotional toll of rejection and abuse.

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Oct 27, 2018
2 min

Free Solo ★★★1/2

A classic introvert, but one who understands himself as an old-school warrior, scales El Capitan with only a bag of chalk.

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Jun 16, 2018
4 min

Piazza Vittorio ★★★ 1/2

Veteran American director Abel Ferrara gives a movie about a lesser-known side of Rome a broader appeal.

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May 13, 2017
3 min

I Am Not Your Negro ★★★ 1/2

A stern rejoinder to those who believe Americans have achieved a post-racial society.

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Sep 3, 2016
2 min

Weiner ★★★★

“I learned some tough lessons,” Anthony Weiner said in a campaign ad. But he didn’t.

Black Bear

No Time to Die

Acasă, My Home (“Acasă”)

No Sudden Move

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Shiva Baby

The Green Knight

White on White

The Truffle Hunters

Zola

In the Heights

Riders of Justice

A Quiet Place Part II

There Is No Evil

Syndrome K

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Judas and the Black Messiah

Crip Camp

The Father

Promising Young Woman

News of the World

Nomadland

Minari

Another Round ("Druk")

Some Kind of Heaven

The White Tiger

One Night in Miami

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mangrove

Mank

You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

The Vast of Night

Martin Eden

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The Wild Goose Lake

Cuties ("Mignonnes")

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

The Assistant

Palm Springs

Sorry We Missed You

The Painted Bird

The Truth

Bacurau

Da 5 Bloods

Beanpole

Tommaso

L'Innocente ("The Innocent")

The Painter and the Thief

Bad Education

Until the Birds Return

The Two Popes

The Lighthouse

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Midsommar

Ford v Ferrari

American Factory

First Cow

Seberg

Ordinary Love

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

The Traitor/Il Traditore

Uncut Gems

Les Misérables

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Bombshell

1917

Knives Out

Little Women

Marriage Story

Queen & Slim

The Irishman

Cold Brook

Jojo Rabbit

Parasite

Joker

Ad Astra

Pain and Glory

First Love

Downton Abbey

Monos

The Goldfinch

Late Night

Good Boys

The Farewell

Yesterday

Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

They Shall Not Grow Old

Toy Story 4

Bad Times at the El Royale

Bob Wilson's Life and
Death of Marina
Abramovic

The Sisters Brothers

Gloria Bell

Us

Won't You Be My
Neighbor

Never Look Away

Capernaum

Everybody Knows

Shoplifters

Three Identical Strangers

Minding the Gap

Cold War

The Favourite

Creed II

If Beale Street Could Talk

Roma

Can You Ever Forgive Me

Green Book

The House with a Clock in its Walls

Wildlife

The Kindergarten Teacher

Free Solo

A Star is Born

Museo

Eighth Grade

BlacKkKlansman

Sorry to Bother You

A Ciambra

The First Purge

Piazza Vittorio

Loro 1

My Cousin Rachel

Black Panther

Marshall

Call Me By Your Name

I, Tonya

Mudbound

The Darkest Hour

The Post

The Shape of Water

Indiscretion of an American Wife (Stazione Termini)

Downsizing

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

INTERVIEW with "Blade Runner" Screenwriter Hampton Fancher

Lady Bird

Rome Adventure

Last Flag Flying

Mother!

Blade Runner 2049

Logan Lucky

Wonder Woman

Dunkirk

The Beguiled

Berlin Syndrome

Facing Windows

Baby Driver

Personal Shopper

INTERVIEW with "John Wick" Screenwriter Derek Kolstad

I Am Not Your Negro

Sing

Get Out

The Salesman

Toni Erdmann

Hacksaw Ridge

Hidden Figures

Fences

Arrival

Elle

Lion

La La Land

Hell or High Water

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Doctor Strange

Florence Foster Jenkins

Demon

Mia Madre

Indignation

Captain Fantastic

Weiner

2 FILM CRITICS

Bill and Dianne's Excellent Adventure

Reviewing Films, Together

Acasă, My Home (“Acasă”) ★★★1/2

The Truffle Hunters ★★★

Syndrome K ★★

Crip Camp ★★★★

Some Kind of Heaven ★★1/2

You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski ★★★

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful ★★★

The Painter and the Thief ★★★1/2

American Factory ★★★

They Shall Not Grow Old ★★★1/2

Bob Wilson's Life and Death of Marina Abramovic ★★★

Won't You Be My Neighbor? ★★★ 1/2

Three Identical Strangers ★★★1/2

Minding the Gap ★★★ 1/2

Free Solo ★★★1/2

Piazza Vittorio ★★★ 1/2

I Am Not Your Negro ★★★ 1/2

Weiner ★★★★

4 STARS

Acasă, My Home (“Acasă”) ★★★1/2

The Truffle Hunters ★★★

Syndrome K ★★

Crip Camp ★★★★

Some Kind of Heaven ★★1/2

You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski ★★★

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful ★★★

The Painter and the Thief ★★★1/2

American Factory ★★★

They Shall Not Grow Old ★★★1/2

Bob Wilson's Life and Death of Marina Abramovic ★★★

Won't You Be My Neighbor? ★★★ 1/2

Three Identical Strangers ★★★1/2

Minding the Gap ★★★ 1/2

Free Solo ★★★1/2

Piazza Vittorio ★★★ 1/2

I Am Not Your Negro ★★★ 1/2

Weiner ★★★★

4 STARS

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