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Chris Vognar

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Arco (2025) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “It feels both familiar and uncanny. The globe-shaped domes that cover the houses in the 2075 world seem both creepy and somehow smart. For all of its design savvy, the movie’s biggest strength might be its tender heart.” – Boston Globe Jan 27, 2026 Full Review I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025) 92% EDIT “Extremely funny people often come from tortured childhoods, a dynamic the doc explores with care. But mostly Zenovich lets Chase squirm under the camera’s gaze and act like himself.” – Boston Globe Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Critical Incident: Death at the Border (2025) EDIT ““Critical Incident” is an important film, but watching it never feels like eating your vegetables. Director Rick Rowley... wrings thrills from all of that digging and the process of speaking truth to power. ” – Boston Globe Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (2025) EDIT “The main character is Brent’s footage, which makes up most of the film, and captures the determination and compassion with which he worked. There’s something deeply wrong with anyone who watches him in action and thinks “enemy of the people.”” – Boston Globe Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Drop Dead City (2024) 92% EDIT “The going can get wonky, but the drama and the stakes are palpable as powerful unions and city, state, and federal officials square off, blame each other, and try to find a solution. ” – Boston Globe Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Freaky Tales (2024) 75% 2/4 EDIT “As fun and freaky as “Freaky Tales” gets in fits and starts, it never really clicks together as a resonant or satisfying whole. ” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Sunday Best (2023) 100% EDIT “It’s a lively pop history lesson, and a bittersweet one.” – Boston Globe Jul 18, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024) 91% EDIT “Costa conjures an eerie, in-the-moment feel, lingering on images until they sear into the subconscious. ” – Boston Globe Jul 11, 2025 Full Review Mountainhead (2025) 74% 2/4 EDIT “It is satire as blunt-force object.” – Boston Globe May 30, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% 2/4 EDIT “Lacks the spirit and swashbuckling chutzpah that distinguishes the balance of the series.” – Dallas Morning News Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% EDIT “If you're looking for the most polished, well-rounded entry of the series, "Empire" reigns. ” – Dallas Morning News Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 52% 2.5/4 EDIT “It never quite makes the leap from situation to actual story, but it has plenty of fun trying.” – San Francisco Chronicle Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Sorry/Not Sorry (2023) 82% 3/4 EDIT “Sorry/Not Sorry resonates by telling the story behind the story, about how the victims of sexual harassment and misconduct are often blamed, especially when their harasser is famous, popular and very funny.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jul 10, 2024 Full Review Einstein and the Bomb (2024) 83% EDIT “Packs a wallop in detailing how the man widely considered the father of atomic energy came to influence the innovations of the Manhattan Project, and how he lived to regret it.” – Rolling Stone Feb 19, 2024 Full Review Lover, Stalker, Killer (2024) 92% EDIT “Hobkinson deserves credit for creating suspense throughout, with assistance from Nick Foster’s score, which happily flirts with Bernard Herrmann, and cinematography and editing that add to the feeling of disorientation and instability.” – Rolling Stone Feb 9, 2024 Full Review Grease (1978) 65% 3/5 EDIT “Those campy songs we've been humming for the last 20 years? They've still got it. There's nothing like listening to a theater full of off-key crooners lending their tonsils to "You're the One That I Want" and "Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee". ” – Dallas Morning News Feb 7, 2024 Full Review As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial (2024) 87% EDIT “Long on sociological acuity and immediacy, shorter on narrative thrust and specifics, the film manages to make its point loud and clear.” – Rolling Stone Jan 23, 2024 Full Review Night Swim (2024) 19% EDIT “Night Swim eventually runs out of places to go, but not before it weds some sneaky character development to a few good, solid jump moments. It might not find an audience, but it deserves one.” – Rolling Stone Jan 6, 2024 Full Review Time Bomb Y2K (2023) 80% EDIT “Time Bomb Y2K works mostly because it keeps a straight face, acknowledging that, even if a lot of the hysteria seems silly now, the anxiety was quite real back then.” – Rolling Stone Jan 2, 2024 Full Review Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family's Secrets (2023) 100% EDIT “A raw, hard-to-watch new HBO documentary that reminds us just how banal evil can be. ” – Rolling Stone Dec 5, 2023 Full Review Chowchilla (2023) EDIT “It remains potent, especially as rendered with this level of empathy and depth. ” – Dallas Morning News Dec 4, 2023 Full Review Bye Bye Barry (2023) 91% EDIT “Even if Bye Bye Barry were thoughtless and bland -- and it definitely isn’t -- the doc would still offer the unmitigated pleasure of all that NFL Films footage featuring Sanders doing work.” – Rolling Stone Nov 21, 2023 Full Review David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived (2023) 94% EDIT “The Boy Who Lived lacks the complexity and frisson that might have set it apart... It is content to be a solid tale of perseverance and friendship, a story about, as Holmes himself puts it, “overcoming adversity.” Look for nothing more, or less. ” – Rolling Stone Nov 15, 2023 Full Review The Insurrectionist Next Door (2023) 83% EDIT “There’s a lesson in The Insurrectionist Next Door about how people who do dumb and dangerous things, and might represent the country’s darkest impulses, are still people.” – Rolling Stone Oct 17, 2023 Full Review The Mission (2023) 94% EDIT “The Mission is an engrossing philosophical exploration -- a personalized profile of a particularly aggressive brand of Christianity. ” – Rolling Stone Oct 12, 2023 Full Review
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