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David DeWitt

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Isn't It Delicious (2013) 40% EDIT “"Isn't It Delicious" has so little nuance that it's sad in unintentional ways.” – New York Times Dec 11, 2014 Full Review Skating to New York (2013) EDIT “In all, something of a squandered opportunity.” – New York Times Dec 11, 2014 Full Review EDIT “The film recording it all has only a little more appeal than a pleasantly narrated DVD to train employees of assisted-living facilities. At least it's a peek inside life in such places.” – New York Times Dec 11, 2014 Full Review Comet (2014) 44% EDIT “These occasionally obnoxious, certainly neurotic young lovers have beating, sometimes broken hearts, and that, as the apostle Paul once noted, tends to trump all.” – New York Times Dec 4, 2014 Full Review Copenhagen (2014) 82% EDIT “[Raso's] absorbing film has a delicate nuance that will linger after the popcorn's gone.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2014 Full Review Precious Caterpillar (2014) EDIT “Well meaning though it is, "Precious Caterpillar" is sometimes hard to follow, and only the rare audience member will find it absorbing. But it has a Zen appeal.” – New York Times Aug 21, 2014 Full Review I Am Happiness on Earth (2014) 29% EDIT “At one point my notes included the gut reaction "This is awful."” – New York Times Aug 14, 2014 Full Review Underwater Dreams (2014) 100% EDIT “Modest yet meaningful, "Underwater Dreams" has a political point of view, shining light on underground Americans who deserve recognition.” – New York Times Jul 10, 2014 Full Review Still I Strive (2012) EDIT “"Still I Strive," by the filmmakers Adam Pfleghaar and A. Todd Smith, is a remarkable find, a tale of uplift in a too-little-seen environment.” – New York Times May 8, 2014 Full Review NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage (2014) 52% EDIT “"NOW," in the end, celebrates a warm and particular type of family values.” – New York Times May 1, 2014 Full Review Finding Mr. Right (2013) 86% EDIT “"Finding Mr. Right" has the standard odd-couple pairing you've seen on the menu before, but there are moments of substance in this macaroon of a movie.” – New York Times Nov 7, 2013 Full Review The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013) 64% EDIT “"The Ghosts in Our Machine" is a compelling movie, but its argument expands without deepening.” – New York Times Nov 7, 2013 Full Review The Human Scale (2012) 64% 3.5/5 EDIT “If the result sometimes feels like a sedate lecture, the global journey strongly enlivens the lesson; it's fascinating how alike and how different cities can be, and more fascinating to imagine what they may become.” – New York Times Oct 17, 2013 Full Review Blood Brother (2013) 73% 4/5 EDIT “"Love is making someone who is sad feel happy," one girl says, answering an interviewer's question. "Blood Brother" showed me that love. I doubt I'll be the only one.” – New York Times Oct 17, 2013 Full Review Forgetting the Girl (2012) 75% 2/5 EDIT “The frequent use of direct-address narration feels too much like a fiction writer's device, however much it wants to be a hook.” – New York Times Oct 10, 2013 Full Review Five Dances (2013) 62% 2/5 EDIT “There's an interesting vibe there, but it's not enough to save what seems like a failed experiment.” – New York Times Oct 3, 2013 Full Review Bridegroom (2012) 85% 4/5 EDIT “[A] simply told but exceptionally moving documentary.” – New York Times Oct 3, 2013 Full Review Arise (2012) 3/5 EDIT “There's a sense of watching an overearnest public service message scored by the softest world-music sounds from Lilith Fair. Still, "Arise" always feels unified, a genuinely felt and executed womanist letter to the world.” – New York Times Sep 19, 2013 Full Review Jewtopia (2012) 18% 1.5/5 EDIT “You feel sorry for everyone who's working so hard to prop up the farce - especially Mr. Fogel, the director, whose work seems alternately desperate and lost.” – New York Times Sep 19, 2013 Full Review Stephen Hawking Biography (2013) 85% 3/5 EDIT “The movie has the typical mix of interviews and archival pictures, serving mostly linear storytelling, with hardly a frame of surprising or pretty filmmaking. Maybe creativity can take a rest when you're letting an oddly charismatic genius have his say.” – New York Times Sep 12, 2013 Full Review Tio Papi (2013) 33% 3/5 EDIT “[A] well-photographed, lively and lightly comic film.” – New York Times Sep 6, 2013 Full Review My Father and the Man in Black (2012) 67% 2/5 EDIT “Here these men are but ciphers; we want understanding, but we get only suggestion.” – New York Times Sep 6, 2013 Full Review Wampler's Ascent (2012) 3/5 EDIT “At ... moments, the tension and pressure are palpable. It's then, as nature documentary and inspirational device, that "Wampler's Ascent" finds its power.” – New York Times Aug 29, 2013 Full Review The United States of Autism (2012) 71% 3/5 EDIT “Yes, the animated opening sequence has a professional polish that the rest of the film lacks, but the documentary's chosen angle is meaningful: The world of autism is as diverse as the nation.” – New York Times Aug 8, 2013 Full Review Rising From Ashes (2012) 79% 2/5 EDIT “A film that lacks complex human dimension to fill out this likable if promotional tale of good will and achievement.” – New York Times Aug 1, 2013 Full Review
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