film reviews
Overview of tenth anniversary DOC NYC Film Festival
November 7, 2019The DOC NYC Film Festival has now become the largest documentary film festival in the U.S. It screens over 300 films, including many U.S. and world premieres, and runs for 10 days, Nov. 6-15.
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Film review: All aboard the freedom train with “Harriet”
November 1, 2019In a straight forward, conventional manner co-writer/director Kasi Lemmons (1997’s Eve’s Bayou) unfolds the life story of Araminta "Minty" Ross.
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‘The Laundromat’: Getting the dirt out
October 29, 2019The Laundromat tells us and shows us that reform of America’s broken finance system cannot wait.
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‘Flint: The Poisoning of an American City’ gives voice to victims
October 18, 2019Flint residents have been fighting for clean water and justice since 2014. Five years and counting since the water crisis there made national news and many residents are still without access to safe water.
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Marie Curie, Patty Hearst, Agnès Varda at Toronto International Film Festival
October 10, 2019She’s the only woman who won the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields—physics and chemistry. And now she's the subject of the first biopic by Iranian-born director, Marjane Satrapi.
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