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Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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‘The 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Bite-Size Global Tales
This year’s selections include a film about the disappearance of a sibling and one about the appearance of 100,000 walruses.
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‘The First Step’ Review: Van Jones Battles for Bipartisanship
This well-meaning documentary follows the liberal commentator as he works with both political parties to pass a criminal justice reform bill.
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Netflix Shuns Live Sports but Embraces Sports Documentaries
Unlike many of its rivals, Netflix has not pursued showing live games. Instead, it has invested in series on professional auto racing, tennis and now golf.
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Tom Ford Talks Gucci, Cocaine and Influence
And other juicy morsels from Tom Ford, Giorgio Armani and Santo Versace in a new fashion documentary.
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‘Last Night in New York’ Review: A Social Chronicler Explains Himself
A slew of well-off New Yorkers, many of them not very nice, sing the praises of their “Boswell,” David Patrick Columbia, in a new documentary.
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‘Mixtape Trilogy’ Review: Powerful Music, but a Less Powerful Film
A scholar, an architect and an Indigo Girls superfan talk about the musical artists that inspire them in Kathleen Ermitage’s documentary.
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‘Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over’ Review: A Trailblazer Gets Her Flowers
This documentary tries to do justice to a six-decade career in 95 minutes, which proves challenging.
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‘Love in the Time of Fentanyl’ Review: Heartbreak, Death and Hope in Vancouver
To combat the overdose crisis, a group that includes former and current users open a safe consumption site where shooting up does not have to mean death.
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‘Body Parts’ Review: Even Sex Scenes Have Rules
The documentary features performers and filmmakers discussing onscreen nudity and sex, but offers little on the subject of sexual exploitation.
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‘Pamela, a Love Story’ Review: A Frank Look Back
This documentary from Ryan White rewinds, to powerful effect, on Pamela Anderson’s life and fame.
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Which Sundance Movies Could Follow ‘CODA’ to the Oscars?
Jonathan Majors in “Magazine Dreams” and Teyana Taylor in “A Thousand and One,” among others, could make the journey from Park City to the Dolby Theater.