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Glenn Dunks

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Biography:

Glenn Charlie Dunks is an award-winning film critic from Melbourne, Australia. He has written for print and online outlets in Australia and the United States for nearly two decades including Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Metro, The Film Experience, Paradise Magazine, The Big Issue, ScreenHub and Junkee. In 2025, he launched redocumented, a new website dedicated to reviews of documentaries exclusively. He has also appeared on many podcasts as well as being a regular film contributor to Joy 94.9, Australia's first and only LGBTQI+ community radio station. He is the winner of two Australian Film Critics Association awards.

Reviews

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River of Grass (2025) 100% EDIT “...it has something of a timeless (or, more accurately, out-of-time) poetic visual quality that I find exciting to watch—although, admittedly, might be too dry for some.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Pistachio Wars (2024) EDIT “The first-time filmmakers are wise to anchor this story in the simple, effective storytelling. Good ol’ American greed is front and centre here, and its influence leaches into so many different areas like toxins into the ground.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Heaven (1987) 71% EDIT “Maybe Heaven is just one big way of saying to stop thinking about all of this so much and just live your life while we have it.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review There Was, There Was Not (2024) 100% EDIT “The sadness of the film and the deep sense of loss that is felt by Mkrtichian’s subjects is smartly told through her observational storytelling and Alexandria Bombach’s editing, criss-crossing between the four women and the land itself...” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Looking for Robert (2024) EDIT “Copans’ intimate knowledge of Kramer allows for Looking for Robert to be a more honest take on the filmmaker. One that celebrates, but never presents him as something that he wasn’t. Or, perhaps even more importantly, that his films never were.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024) 91% EDIT “There’s no doubt a hell of a lot more to the story and maybe there’s another film’s story to tell in a trilogy-capping feature. But this is an incisive look at one country’s perilous descent into dangerous extremism...” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Ai Weiwei's Turandot (2025) EDIT “It acts as a nice artefact for those of us who would never have the opportunity to see such a production. I would have liked to have seen more of its final form, especially since the movie’s opening sequence... was a breathtaking way to begin.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Naked Ambition (2023) 70% EDIT “...it’s hard not to suspect that there are several chapters of her life that aren’t explored quite as much as they could be, [but] it’s lively and has a nice spark while speaking to ideas that feel relevant for today.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Lost in the Jungle (2025) 92% EDIT “It hangs a lot on its frame, but I appreciated that there was a bit more effort made to really grapple with the lives of this family and those around them, something I found missing in some of their earlier comparable works.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review The Propagandist (2025) EDIT “In some of its more interesting passages, Bouwman’s film focuses on the filmmaking itself and the way Teunissen was changed and how deluded he must have become.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review 1000 Women in Horror (2025) EDIT “But this isn’t a boys vs girls situation. It’s about carving out a space to talk about these issues in a way that offers freedom of expression and individuality. There could easily be another one given how much there is to discuss.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Trains (2024) EDIT “What things these trains have seen! Trains is a ravishing document of something that nobody likely knew they needed. I simply adored it.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 (2024) 91% EDIT “[A quote] suggests that archives cannot tell us what happened, but more how it was presented to society. That’s an appropriate reminder for all such films, but especially so here. There is obviously much more to the story than can fit into 200 minutes.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review The Librarians (2025) 94% EDIT “In a way, it’s like arguing with a baby. Sure, your points might be totally accurate and compelling and maybe you made those points with veracious integrity. But ultimately, you’re still arguing with a baby.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Deaf President Now! (2025) 100% EDIT “It proves a smartly assembled technical piece, too. Michael Harte’s editing, switching between archival footage and cleanly shot talking heads is efficient and tight. The sound design of Samir Foco is a surprising, nonsensical snub by the Emmy voters.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Music by John Williams (2024) 100% EDIT “There are a lot of cute anecdotes, not many of which we get to really dig into. Which is probably only natural. The film is 105 minutes long and he has more credits than minutes on runtime.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Sudan, Remember Us (2024) 100% EDIT “This film is 78 minutes long, which, considering the subject matter, hardly seems long enough to really show westerners ... the full scale of what is occurring in the African nation. And it's not, but you can do some reading.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Monk in Pieces (2025) 92% EDIT “It’s probably because she’s been so frequently filmed, so willing to not just appear on camera but to detail her art and the process behind it, that Monk in Pieces works as well as it does.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Life After (2025) 97% EDIT “...does Davenport's film, in attempting to raise concerns about how the medical field is pushing death on disabled people actually just end up infantilising those same people in some way?” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Commune (2005) 96% EDIT “You can likely never quite escape human emotions and public perceptions. Like when commune buddies become lovers who become partners. Like when the police raid your land and seize marijuana only for it to actually be a tomato plant.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review My Mom Jayne (2025) 100% EDIT “Those familiar with Hargitay just through her performance across a record-extending 26 seasons... will likely come away from this self-directed documentary with a newfound understanding of both mother and daughter.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Enigma (2025) EDIT “When all is said and done, Enigma does come across as a bit of muckraking. Which is (maybe) actually fine with me, but it is questionable in how it goes about it.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Surviving Ohio State (2025) 100% EDIT “Personally, as a viewer who, like Orner, is also not American, I find on-screen portrayals of American college life are about as foreign of a concept as you can get. Accurate or not, it just comes across like an entirely different planet.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review The Body Politic (2023) EDIT “But the filmmaker is so lucky to have a subject in Brandon Scott. He comes across as so naturally charismatic, particularly in more casual moments. ” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review I'm Your Venus (2024) 100% EDIT “I’m Your Venus sings with not just storytelling nous, but authenticity and potent emotional clarity. Reed, who is transgender but also indeed white, allows for transparency and honestly where before there may not have been.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review
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