This documentary from Thom Zimny tracks Sylvester Stallone’s life and career, though focuses too much on “Rocky” and “Rambo.”
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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‘Beyond Utopia’ Review: Exit Strategies
This film, directed by Madeleine Gavin, documents the experiences of defectors from North Korea.
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‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey
The experimental documentary is punctuated by Giovanni’s poetry, read both by her and the actress Taraji P. Henson. But the film offers only what the poet is willing to give.
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‘After Death’ Review: Visions at the Brink From Those Who Returned
A documentary about near-death experiences crescendos with redemptions and literal come-to-Jesus moments.
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‘Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-Fi Film Club’ Review: Cinema Education
This documentary is both a look at a small, obsessive film club that formed in the early ’90s in South Korea and an origin story of the director Bong Joon Ho, who was in the group.
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‘Four Daughters’ Review: The Role Family Plays
This documentary from Kaouther Ben Hania restages pivotal moments from a family’s life.
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The Best True Crime to Stream: Stories That Are Very Scary, and Real
Four terrifying, unnerving picks across television, film and podcast.
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‘Milli Vanilli’ Review: Blame It on the Fame
Luke Korem’s documentary retraces the manufactured pop duo’s rise and fall, while asking pertinent questions about the price of stardom.
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‘To Kill a Tiger’ Review: The Survivor Who Refused to Be Shamed
In this unflinching documentary, a young girl in rural India and her father fight an entrenched village culture to seek justice for her brutal rape.
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‘Another Body’ Review: A Cowardly New World
This film, directed by Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn, follows a woman as she attempts to find the person responsible for posting her face on a deepfake porn video.
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‘Silver Dollar Road’ Review: Black Land Loss Is Still Happening
The 20th century saw a mass dispossession of Black farmers. This intimate documentary focuses on one family’s recent battle to keep their home in North Carolina.