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Jimmy Chin/National Geographic If mountain-climbing documentaries make you puke-dizzy, Free Solo is probably not a good idea. This National Geographic head-spinner from husband-and-wife co-directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin is extreme in the extreme. The focus is on Alex […]
Mark Johnson/IFC FIlms Here in the States, the populace worships the Kardashians. In the U.K., there’s nothing like a Dame. In a sane world, there’s no contest. So do have tea with the Dames: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins […]
Gilda Radner, the subject of the documentary 'Love, Gilda.' Magnolia Pictures It’s the Gilda Radner grin that really gets you — always radiant, sometimes childishly goofy, occasionally maniacal. You see it a lot in Love, Gilda, the documentary on the […]
Michael Moore, center, in the documentary 'Fahrenheit 11/9.' Courtesy of TIFF You’ll cry laughing at Michael Moore’s new doc Fahrenheit 11/9, an unmissable provocation about the rise and rise of Donald J. Trump that should help get out the vote […]
‘The King’ turns the rise and fall of Elvis Presley into a mirror that reflects Trump’s America – and asks where it all went wrong. Our review. There aren't many documentaries that see Elvis Presley as the bruised soul of […]
Fred Rogers’ TV show, ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,’ was quietly radical, shaping generations of American children. With cynicism running like a toxic streak through mainstream media, a documentary on sweet, soothing TV host Fred Rogers may strike you as hopelessly naïve […]