documentary

‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’: A fine new documentary about a courageous life

July 6, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

Elder Lewis told his young grandson that sometimes good trouble would be needed to do what is right.

‘Planet of the Humans’: A documentary film of despair or hope?

May 11, 2020 By Len Yannielli

It’s disappointing that Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore would make such a low-quality documentary film.

‘After Porn Ends’: New documentary explores lives of actors post-career

December 20, 2019 By Brian W. Major

The documentary shines a light on the hypocrisy of a society that fantasizes about sex workers on one hand, then stigmatizes them for that work on the other.

The new Belorussian film ‘Debut’: Crime and punishment and art therapy

December 6, 2019 By Ed Rampell

A well-made, touching documentary.

‘Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator’: Oh! Kolkata, yogi bare and boo-boos

December 3, 2019 By Ed Rampell

As Eva Orner’s chilling Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator contends, Bikram Choudhury—who is now a fugitive from the U.S. but still teaching and cashing in elsewhere—is one of the latest in a long line of figures from...