A decade’s fretting and futzing, and the few ecstatic moments rendered along the way, are compressed into 77 minutes in…
He’s glimpsed only briefly in Katie Dellamaggiore’s magnanimous look into the agonies and ecstasies of the country’s top-rated junior-high chess…
Although the title of directors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s dual portrait of two players in the underage-modeling world might…
For George Gregory—one of nine participants in the Fort Worth, Texas, horse-training competition profiled in this doc—the process of taming…
It’s a credit to Side by Side—an impressively thorough, expertly assembled survey of the debate surrounding the movie industry’s transition…
A deeply archived and circumspect history of the Joffrey dance company, this doc does a perfect white swan but has…
As suggested by a scholar in this numinous essay-doc, if the current craze for walking a pilgrim’s path can’t be…
A blanket of white covers Montreal inside and out in this understated, affecting Canadian drama. The schoolyard where Alice (Sophie…
In this Oscar nominee, the life of Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdés seems to have been translated first into…
“The best for the most for the least” was the utopian business credo of Charles Eames, who with his wife,…
Danfung Dennis’ documentary seeks to chronicle the personal experience of war with extreme and sustained intimacy. The nightmare-vivid combat footage…
An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small Texas town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian…
I couldn’t get my parents to watch Who Killed the Electric Car?, Chris Paine’s indictment of the forces that brought…
A group of 30-somethings trapped in the amber of their high-school years attempt to bone their way into adulthood in…
If there’s a more complicated place than Italy to be a beautiful woman, the filmmaking world has yet to identify…
An Australian misfits-in-love story manufactured from whole quirk, Griff the Invisible is more mannerism than movie. Griff (True Blood‘s Ryan…
Looking to documentaries to learn how to live could easily become a life-consuming occupation in itself. I’m waiting on the…
“Yes, I think we all used her,” Eve Arnold once said of Marilyn Monroe. “I think as a photographer, one…
A low-blood-sugar heist movie set in the tumbleweed thoroughfares of downtown Buffalo, Henry’s Crime has a little too much in…
Built more like an education module than a documentary, Carbon Nation might make you nostalgic for those blissful days when…
Cheerful in outline and yet prone to maudlin bulges in its middle, Today’s Special stars Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi…
Discreetly drawn and elegantly photographed, Mademoiselle Chambon gives a French working-class love triangle the Brief Encounter treatment. With long, steadfast…
What might strike American viewers as the most quizzical thing about Looking for Eric, Ken Loach’s humble ode to soccer…
