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Lucrecia Martel’s beguilingly sensuous dramas have depicted her country’s class and racial fissures in numerous ways, whether historically (Zama), psychologically (The Headless Woman), or in the…

Perhaps the most striking reveal in the new documentary about the writer E. Jean Carroll is just how magnetic she is. Whether in voiceover snippets of…

With Marshall Curry‘s The New Yorker at 100, a magazine famous for its erudition and curation receives a polished, amusing and generally superficial Reader’s Digest summary…

I love when a project has a title that seems just a little off but offers a purposeful piece of wordplay.  It doesn’t have to be…

If you watched Ken Burns’ 16-hour “Country Music” documentary when it came out in 2019, you might’ve been wishing that every legend whose life flashed by…

National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. streaming rights to Werner Herzog‘s new feature-length documentary Ghost Elephants, which had its world premiere at the Venice…

When Seymour Hersh remarks, in one of the superb archival clips excerpted in Cover-Up, that “nobody likes the messenger,” he knows what he’s talking about. For…

Jillian Michaels has already made it clear that she’s not happy with the Netflix docu-series Fit for TV and now she’s speaking out again. The former…

Berlin-based Austrian filmmaker Ivette Löcker (Night Shifts, Ties That Bind) likes to go deep on human relationships and connections.“My previous films have very often dealt with…

Documentarians must perform particularly tricky balancing acts with each new project. The audience expects their work to be richly cinematic, entertaining and surprising; the standards of…