|
2.5/4
|
70%
|
Becoming Traviata (2013) |
"
It works as a reminder of the important interactiveness of the performing arts, of actors evoking the drama, action, and emotion that computers and machines cannot. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 13, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Bidder 70 (2013) |
"
Without being didactic, the documentary demonstrates how an ordinary concerned citizen can take a stand when politicians neglect to make decisions for the good of the people and instead serve the interests of big business. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 12, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
88%
|
Herman's House (2013) |
"
An involving documentary that doesn't offer a convincing argument against solitary confinement for those who may not fully realize what's objectionable about it. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 16, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
88%
|
Hava Nagila: The Movie (2013) |
"
The doc can at times feel like you're wasting your time on a subject you might wish you had only accidentally crossed paths with briefly on Wikipedia."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
95%
|
One Life (2013) |
"
As much as Daniel Craig's narration can feel tacked-on, it's really secondary to the film's expert camerawork."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 19, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
91%
|
The Last Gladiators (2013) |
"
Makes room for tender moments of reflection from a guy who, against impossible odds, still managed some victories, the biggest of which may be that he's still standing."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
57%
|
High Tech, Low Life (2013) |
"
As far as its subject matter goes, the doc only scratches the surfaces, only reaffirming the simple idea that Internet censorship in China is prevalent and unfair."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 6, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
My Brooklyn (2013) |
"
A thoughtful piece of documentary journalism that synecdochically uses the controversial redevelopment of the Fulton Street Mall to talk about the process of gentrification."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
17%
|
Delhi Safari (2012) |
"
A much better way to strike home the same green message, while also having more fun, would be to just skip this movie and take your kids to a national park. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 3, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
40%
|
New Jerusalem (2012) |
"
Unlike the soul-searching characters from Old Joy, which also stars Will Oldham, Ike and Sean always feel as if they've fallen out of the sky just for the film's setup."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
98%
|
Brooklyn Castle (2012) |
"
It pays to consider even the small details of society's greatest investment in the future: our future generations."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Split: A Deeper Divide (2012) |
"
As an election-season reminder that our democratic system isn't functioning, it serves as a welcome wake-up call."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 10, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
Switch (2012) |
"
Possibly the driest and most balanced documentary on the current energy crisis."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 18, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
Mark Lombardi: Death-Defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy (2012) |
"
Feels like one of those thin, audio-visual supplements on an artist that you casually view as you browse a gallery show. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
Somewhere Between (2012) |
"
For what often feels like an obligatory "Where Are They Now?" DVD extra, the documentary is surprisingly affecting."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 22, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
83%
|
El Edificio De Los Chilenos () |
"
What probably seemed obvious and familiar to director Macarena Aguiló, seems vague and confusing to us."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 13, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
20%
|
Goats (2012) |
"
Christopher Neil's film is more location-scouted and photographed than directed and acted."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 9, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Mosquita Y Mari (2012) |
"
Most of what transpires between the two girls feels as internal as something you only keep to yourself. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
——
|
Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours (2012) |
"
Just as Rirkrit Tiravanija had done in the '90s when he converted New York City galleries into live kitchens, he changes one's relation to a movie theater to a space for meditation."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott (2012) |
"
The documentary is a work of careful consideration, moral weighing, and deliberateness of craft."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
80%
|
China Heavyweight (2012) |
"
Although we never really get to know He or Miao, despite following them around vérité-style, director Yung Chang expertly captures the rays of Western culture bouncing off them. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 6, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Neil Young Journeys (2012) |
"
As great and intimate as Live at Massey Hall 1971 may be, it's not as transportive as this filming of a Neil Young performance at the venue 30 years later."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 29, 2012
|
|
|
75%
|
Bidder 70 (2013) |
"
There are a lot of environmental documentaries out there about inciting change, but Bidder 70 is one of the most affecting."
—
House Next Door
Posted Jun 21, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
Men on the Bridge () |
"
If director Asli Özge has said something about modern-day Istanbul, she's done it in fairly broad strokes that may be too far apart for the sake of a discernible narrative"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
A View Of Love (Un Balcon Sur La Mer) () |
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 1, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
58%
|
U.N. Me (2012) |
"
But U.N. Me isn't all sneering, and it certainly makes its points."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 29, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
Crooked Arrows (2012) |
"
Although it adheres to the tried-and-true sports-movie formula of an underdog team striving to overcome their limitations to become winners, Crooked Arrows lacks captivating emotional momentum."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
89%
|
OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie (2012) |
"
A tender, painful, and frustrating work of vulnerability, and because of this in some ways deflects critical commentary."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
American Animal (2012) |
"
It may be baked with the same ingredients that come in your standard mumblecore starter kit, but because of Matt D'Elia's indebtedness to other movies, the film follows a different recipe altogether."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 14, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
0%
|
Nesting (2012) |
"
The way Nesting goes out of its way to tell us where it's set is symptomatic of the film in general."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment (2012) |
"
While very informative, it doesn't work as an introduction to kibbutzim because it requires the viewer to have some prior knowledge of the history of Israel. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 25, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Surviving Progress (2012) |
"
By turning the idea of progress on its head, the nimble Surviving Progress exquisitely presents to us the possibility that humankind's achievements may cause its downfall. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2012
|
|
—
|
54%
|
Bully (2001) |
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
87%
|
Bully (2012) |
"
Leaves us moved by poignant scenes of victims' shattered lives, but, for reasons unclear, keeps the bullies themselves largely out of our reach. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 27, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
29%
|
The Trouble with Bliss (2012) |
"
Populated with unlikely occurrences and oddball characters, it plays out, to put it most complimentary, like a dull, slower moving After Hours."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
An Encounter with Simone Weil (2012) |
"
Ultimately, the film doesn't feel like it ever left Julia Haslett's head, leaving us a little cold."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Where Are You Taking Me? (2012) |
"
The documentary revels in the simple joys of finding something that captures the eye and paying attention to it."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
The Forgotten Space (2012) |
"
The filmmakers more or less show us in The Forgotten Space how the sea is capitalism's global trading floor writ large."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2012) |
"
The Sacred Star of Milos manages to be an entertaining and faithful expansion on the original material while being inconsequential to it."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
97%
|
Sing Your Song (2012) |
"
The documentary's pace and energy gives an urgency to the political activism central to the restless Harry Belafonte's remarkable life."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 11, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
57%
|
It's About You (2012) |
"
While there aren't many films shot on Super 8 anymore, It's About You doesn't make the case that moviegoing is missing anything because of that."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2012
|
|
|
91%
|
Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (2011) |
"
It's the typical, from-the-archives, scrapbook approach that makes Corman's World the safe bet that it is."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
0.5/4
|
0%
|
Red Hook Black (2011) |
"
That this strained film about two friends struggling with jobs and family in a bleak, thickly spread economic milieu is adapted from a play is painfully obvious."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 6, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
56%
|
Lads & Jockeys (2011) |
"
Director Benjamin Marquet makes his documentary as much about his, and his archival, images as the sentiments audiences bring to them."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 3, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
81%
|
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (2011) |
"
At best, Force of Nature restates an important message to a wider audience. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 28, 2011
|
|
0/4
|
——
|
Silver Tongues () |
"
The problem with Silver Tongues is that Simon Arthur has nothing to actually show us about the world."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 14, 2011
|
|
|
0%
|
A Novel Romance (2011) |
"
As a showcase for Steve Guttenberg's 52-years-young pecs, A Novel Romance might have been better served as a workout video. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
41%
|
Five Star Day (2011) |
"
Danny Buday's film is not so much skeptical of astrology as confused about it."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 1, 2011
|
|
—
|
52%
|
The Devil's Double (2011) |
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 29, 2011
|
87%
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