“Occupied City,” a documentary from the “12 Years a Slave” filmmaker, proves ambitious. “Jeanne du Barry,” with Johnny Depp, was an unfortunate kickoff.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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‘Museum of the Revolution’ Review: Sheltering in an Abandoned Utopia
This quiet documentary observes three unhoused women from different generations who live among the remains of an unfinished museum in Belgrade.
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‘Queenmaker’ Review: Society Blogger to Self-Made Celebrity
The chronicler of the post-9/11 New York social whirl who is at the center of this documentary was no Manhattan insider but rather a student in Illinois.
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‘Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me’ Review: Mistreated
The tumultuous life and death of the model, actress and tabloid superstar is related with little insight in this facile Netflix documentary.
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Making a Michael J. Fox Movie With Michael J. Fox’s Movies
How the documentary “Still” uses footage from its subject’s films and TV shows to tell its story.
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‘It Ain’t Over’ Review: When Yogi Berra Saw a Strike, He Hit It
The baseball player, known for his quirky malapropisms, was perpetually underestimated. But a new documentary proves he was a phenomenal talent.
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‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’ Review: Hiding in Plain Sight
The “Back to the Future” star time-travels through his career in this documentary, charting his experiences learning to live with Parkinson’s disease.
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‘Unfinished Business’ Review: Skimming the Surface of Women’s Basketball
Unfortunately, this documentary about the W.N.B.A. and the New York Liberty hits the rim and then bounces out — it’s only close to good.
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Yogi Berra on the Field: The Case for Baseball Greatness
A new documentary argues that the Yankee catcher was not just a malaprop-prone, beloved celebrity but also a legend of the game.
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‘The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons’ Review
A new documentary explores the artist’s sly conceptual works, and what it means when white people try to own something Black.
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‘Anxious Nation’ Review: The Kids Aren’t All Right
Young people discuss their troubles with anxiety and panic in this unfocused advocacy documentary.
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‘Slava Ukraini’ Review: Tour of a War-Torn Nation
The French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy travels to different parts of Ukraine in this dispatch-documentary, shot in the second half of 2022.