Sundance Film Review: ‘To Be Takei’
Jennifer Kroot's documentary deftly showcases the many roles played by George Takei.
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Film Review: ‘The Grounded’
Steve Kroschel continues to proselytize for holistic health solutions in this folksy not-for-profit infomercial.
Film Review: ‘The Great Flood’
An art piece, a sociopolitical document and a musical meditation, Bill Morrison's latest found-footage documentary should strike chords with niche audiences.
Film Review: ‘Domestic’
In Romanian helmer Adrian Sitaru's third feature, the intrusion of different animals into a domestic space sets off rapid-fire arguments, negotiations, recriminations and reconciliations.
Film Review: ‘Three Exercises of Interpretation’
A three-part acting workshop becomes a brilliant albeit supremely uncommercial experiment in Romanian auteur Cristi Puiu's latest.
Film Review: ‘A Fragile Trust’
Samantha Grant's well-balanced documentary about Jayson Blair alternates between the disgraced journalist's defenders/critics and the man himself in examining how such unethical conduct arose and…
Film Review: ‘Beatocello’s Umbrella’
The inspiring story of doctor/musician Beat Richner is badly miscalculated in Georges Gachot's fifth feature.
Film Review: ‘Closer to the Moon’
"Closer to the Moon" offers an absurdist take on a real event: an audacious 1959 bank robbery carried out by high-ranking Jewish members of the Romanian Communist Party, who pretended they were…
Film Review: ‘Kids for Cash’
Robert May's deeply shocking, continually surprising documentary examines the kickback scandal surrounding juvenile court judge Mark Ciavarella.
Film Review: ‘The Road to Fame’
Hao Wu's documentary addresses the first generation affected by China's one-child policy through a Beijing drama academy performance of "Fame."
