Christopher Campbell
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Uncharted (2022) |
It never overcomes two major problems: the heroes are unlikeable rogues, and their adventure is entirely based on greed. Theyre indistinguishable from the villains in both regards. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Feb 16, 2022
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Last Flight Home (2022) |
Last Flight Home reminds us that we need to acknowledge and enjoy the time we have with loved ones before they're gone. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 27, 2022
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Fire of Love (2022) |
We can be thankful that today's documentarians are going through the archives of this rare subset of cinema and giving the footage new outlets for discovery. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 27, 2022
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West Side Story (2021) |
We can't rate West Side Story as a musical revue. This is a movie with an overarching story driving all other components, and it's terribly insufficient as such. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Dec 03, 2021
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Becoming Cousteau (2021) |
The film plays like a message for the present and the future more than a story about the past. - Nonfics
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| Posted Nov 24, 2021
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Fauci (2021) |
Fauci effectively humanizes the famous - or infamous - physician-scientist and levels out who he really is by putting him on camera as much as possible. - Nonfics
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| Posted Oct 06, 2021
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A Glitch in the Matrix (2020) |
A perfect midnight movie ... But it will give you a hangover, for which you'll want an antidote in the form of any other film with real people invested in the real world. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 31, 2021
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In the Same Breath (2021) |
The general notion and fear that little is going to be learned from what went wrong, or that the improper sort of changes may occur, strike deeply - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 29, 2021
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The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) |
Between this and Autumn de Wilde's Emma., films based on 19th-century literary works felt so bright and buoyant in 2020, and I want more like them. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Jan 26, 2021
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The Croods: A New Age (2020) |
It is a weird movie, sometimes just for weird sake, but also for an engaging entertainment experience wherever it is you're watching. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Nov 25, 2020
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Belushi (2020) |
A documentary of utmost precision honoring and respecting and held up by the spirit of everyone involved. - Nonfics
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| Posted Nov 19, 2020
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I Am Greta (2020) |
I Am Greta is good enough as a portrait of Thunberg, but it's even better for being more. - Nonfics
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| Posted Nov 13, 2020
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Rebuilding Paradise (2020) |
Where Fire in Paradise puts us right there in the thick of the flames, Rebuilding Paradise feels more distant, from the outside, just visiting. - Nonfics
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| Posted Nov 09, 2020
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Fire in Paradise (2019) |
One of the scariest movies I've seen in years. - Nonfics
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| Posted Nov 09, 2020
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Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020) |
A great hangout film, mixing old and young, friends and strangers - even fiction and nonfiction are mingling together at this party. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jul 09, 2020
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The Painter and the Thief (2020) |
Full of surprises that subvert expectations and maybe also subvert those subverted expectations. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jul 05, 2020
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Athlete A (2020) |
Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk and their regular editor, Don Bernier, structure everything perfectly, resulting in a cohesive yet multifaceted masterwork of its kind. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jul 05, 2020
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Yesterday (2019) |
Your typical romantic comedy with a fantastical fairytale component that provides the film with a unique spin on conventional genre tropes. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Sep 30, 2019
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Judy (2019) |
You should see it for a performance that would be amazing even if in a vacuum, and you should appreciate it even more because it's not. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Sep 30, 2019
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The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019) |
It's funny that Berman worried so much about there being too many docs being made about Szeles since he wound up basically making two in one. And both of them are exceptional. - Nonfics
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| Posted Aug 21, 2019
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For Sama (2019) |
As we witness the war from this perspective, our brains and our hearts might not be in agreement. That divide is one of the most powerful things a documentary can do to us. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jul 26, 2019
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Aladdin (2019) |
The empowered expansion of the Jasmine character is a progressive makeover that provides a greater role model for girls in the audience than she does in the original. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted May 25, 2019
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) |
Maybe the next movie set in this world - now that all the groundwork is established - can focus on a more cohesive and satisfying script with better-written human characters. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted May 10, 2019
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The Legend of Cocaine Island (2018) |
What's fascinating enough on paper is far more outrageous in the documentary...sorry, Hollywood, no need for a remake of this. - Thrillist
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| Posted Mar 29, 2019
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They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) |
Even without the 3D format, it really seems to bring those soldiers and the war alive and into the theater. - Nonfics
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| Posted Mar 15, 2019
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2019 Oscar Nominated Shorts - Documentary (2019) |
All worth watching, whether together or separately. - Nonfics
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| Posted Feb 11, 2019
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2019 Oscar Nominated Shorts - Animation (2019) |
The five animated shorts up for the Academy Award this year are notable for their representation both on and off screen. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Feb 09, 2019
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2019 Oscar Nominated Shorts - Live Action (2019) |
I don't know if this is the worst batch the Academy has ever managed to compile for consideration, but it's a pretty bad bunch. Some of the films are downright insulting. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Feb 09, 2019
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Midnight Family (2019) |
Nothing here is easily processed ... the film is the beginning of a discussion. - Nonfics
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| Posted Feb 05, 2019
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) |
I will always appreciate a doc that leans heavily into the subject's own voice and art. - Nonfics
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| Posted Feb 05, 2019
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Gaza (2019) |
I hate to say that the unfolded structure of Gaza is brilliant because it's also obviously very tragic. - Nonfics
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| Posted Feb 05, 2019
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Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire (2018) |
You owe it to Larsson to watch ... not only to honor what he was trying to do then but to recognize that this is a history of what's happened in much of the world. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 28, 2019
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Sea of Shadows (2019) |
Hopefully, by the time you see Sea of Shadows, it hasn't taken on an elegiac quality. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 28, 2019
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Midnight Traveler (2019) |
Fazili doesn't lean that much on the hardships of the foursome's journey. There is plenty of that, yet also so much more. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 28, 2019
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Love, Antosha (2019) |
The many peers and friends interviewed for the documentary seem to have genuinely loved and, more importantly, been loved by Yelchin. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 28, 2019
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Shooting the Mafia (2019) |
The history of the Cosa Nostra and the life/work/presence of Battaglia are compelling enough ... Almost incidentally, but surely consciously, Longinotto gives us more. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 26, 2019
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The Disappearance of My Mother (2019) |
Uncomfortable but still engrossing ... a psychoanalyst could probably have a field day reviewing The Disappearance of My Mother. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 26, 2019
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Fyre (2019) |
It doesn't go any further than just giving the rundown of how the Fyre Festival became such a massive clusterf**k. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 17, 2019
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Fyre Fraud (2019) |
The better, or at least just the more streamlined, of two so-so documentaries about the Fyre Festival released in the same week. - Nonfics
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| Posted Jan 17, 2019
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Mirai (2018) |
Hosoda has a gift for making us truly care about and empathize with his young characters...whether we're inside his head or not, we're always in Kun's heart. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Dec 01, 2018
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Tito and the Birds (2018) |
Some parts of the film have an intentionally distorted ugliness to them, but so much more of it is just absolutely mesmerizing. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Dec 01, 2018
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Distant Constellation (2017) |
Maybe it's not a bad film, objectively, but I don't have any reason to recommend it. - Nonfics
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| Posted Nov 05, 2018
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The Wife (2017) |
Close only really stands out because everyone and everything else in The Wife is so terrible. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Nov 02, 2018
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Monrovia, Indiana (2018) |
Frederick Wiseman has made his dullest documentary. But a dull blade can still cut deep. - Nonfics
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| Posted Oct 26, 2018
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On Her Shoulders (2018) |
Films can be more than one thing, and this documentary rightfully gets to have its cake and eat it, too, doing so without any irony or hypocrisy. - Nonfics
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| Posted Oct 21, 2018
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First Man (2018) |
The movie could be recut and called 'Secondary Woman' and still work because [Foy's] role and performance are that exceptional. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Oct 19, 2018
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The Price of Everything (2018) |
'The Price of Everything' is like much of the art it showcases: a would-be hodgepodge that comes together as some kind of masterpiece. - Nonfics
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| Posted Oct 18, 2018
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22 July (2018) |
Greengrass presents something of a battle between Hanssen and his assailant for whose story is more important ... The terrorist does come off as having won something. - Film School Rejects
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| Posted Oct 12, 2018
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306 Hollywood (2018) |
Elan and Jonathan Bogarin make a marvelous debut with this fanciful yet unfeigned portrait of their grandmother. - Nonfics
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| Posted Sep 26, 2018
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Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) |
Moore believes the world is in greater trouble than ever right now. His latest doc is his most imperative yet. - Nonfics
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| Posted Sep 21, 2018
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