

Ben Kenigsberg
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‘Honorable Men’ Review: The Trials of a Prime Minister
It would take an eight- or 10-hour mini-series to deal with all the issues this documentary raises about the legal travails of Ehud Olmert, the...

‘The Plains’ Review: Road to Somewhere
This experimental film pulls together excerpts from 11 evening commutes, as a man drives from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, toward the city’s center.

‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ Review: A Different Kind of Oil Boom
A book that proposed violent action in response to the climate crisis becomes a propulsive heist thriller.

Three Great Documentaries to Stream
This month’s picks include a film about a summer camp for the disabled, a portrait of a defense secretary’s regrets about the Vietnam War and...

‘Space Oddity’ Review: Failure to Launch
Men will literally contemplate traveling to Mars instead of going to therapy in “Space Oddity,” directed by Kyra Sedgwick.

‘Kubrick by Kubrick’ Review: Stanley Plays Himself
A primer on the filmmaker’s career and interests won’t offer much that will surprise even mild obsessives, but it does pierce some of the mystique.

‘The Spirit of ’45’ Review: Here Comes Nationalization
A documentary from Ken Loach sees the end of World War II as a brief moment of possibility for socialism in Britain.

‘Champions’ Review: Following the Playbook
This film directed by Bobby Farrelly has elements that recall “Kingpin” and “There’s Something About Mary.” But the ratio of tastelessness to sentimentality has been...

‘Gods of Mexico’ Review: A Portrait of Indigenous Residents
This abstract-leaning nonfiction film consists of a series of vignettes and tableaus of communities in Mexico.

Stream These Three Great Documentaries
This month’s Oscar-adjacent picks include films about a couple of volcanologists and a couple of Mars rovers.