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Review: ‘Birds of Passage’ not your ordinary drug war crime film

February 20, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

At a little over two hours long, Birds of Passage is an expansive tale of a family in the midst of historic upheaval.

Review: Rival documentaries showcase the fraud behind Fyre festival

February 1, 2019 By Michelle Zacarias

Fyre Fest combined the vainest aspects of millennial social media celebrity culture with the markers of “success” under capitalism. Now you can see two competing documentaries about it.

‘Period. End of Sentence.’ Short documentary about menstruation and sanitary pads

January 18, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The film gives us scenes of awkward young women and men interviewed as to what they actually know about menstruation.

‘Don’t Come Back From the Moon’: A lament for rural America

January 17, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The film is an adaptation of Bakopoulos’s first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon.

RBG hits the big screen again in ‘On the Basis of Sex’

January 9, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has so many fervent admirers, she’s practically become a cottage industry in America.