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A stone building with a clock tower on a hilltop, silhouetted against a sunset sky. A person on a white horse in the foreground, with chickens nearby.
Review

A Bunch of Amateurs

by Marina Ashioti

A charm­ing doc­u­men­tary about Britain’s old­est ama­teur film­mak­ing club puts a quin­tes­sen­tial­ly North­ern sto­ry in the spotlight.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A Mars rover on a rocky, dusty landscape against an orange sky.
Review

Good Night Oppy

by David Jenkins

Under­whelm­ing and detail-light account of the plucky Mars rover that out­lived NASA’s wildest predictions.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Incoming

Radical artist Nan Goldin takes on opioid barons in the All the Beauty and the Bloodshed trailer

by Charles Bramesco

Lau­ra Poitras’ doc­u­men­tary chron­i­cles Gold­in’s cam­paign of grass­roots activism against the Sack­ler family.
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Festivals

A Cooler Climate – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

James Ivory rem­i­nisces about a youth­ful year spent in Afghanistan with this cozy archival documentary.
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Review

The Cordillera of Dreams

by Marina Ashioti

Mas­ter film­mak­er Patri­cio Guzmán turns his gaze to the enig­mat­ic Andean moun­tain range as he exam­ines the trou­bled his­to­ries of Chile.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Silhouettes of an adult and child against an orange and red sunset sky, with grass in the foreground.
Review

Midwives

by Jamison Kent

Hnin Ei Hlaing’s eye-open­ing doc­u­men­tary depicts the ram­pant and ongo­ing cri­sis in Myan­mar through the eyes of two caregivers.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
A woman wearing a white hijab and looking directly at the camera.
Festivals

The Matchmaker – first-look review

by Anahit Behrooz

Benedet­ta Argen­ter­i’s doc­u­men­tary about Too­ba Gondal fails to get to the sys­tem­at­ic caus­es of rad­i­cal­i­sa­tion, instead opt­ing for shod­dy per­son­al blame.
Two people, a man and a woman, sitting on a bed in a dark room.
Review

Dry Ground Burning

by Marina Ashioti

Joana Pimen­ta and Adir­ley Queirós blur fic­tion and doc­u­men­tary in their hybrid tale of Brazil­ian resis­tance, inde­pen­dence and survival.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Not Movies

Arsenal: All Or Nothing and the football documentary boom

by Zoheir Beig

As Ama­zon’s lat­est Pre­mier League doc airs, how much do these pres­tige foot­ball docs real­ly tell us about the beau­ti­ful game?
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Festivals

Husband – first-look review

by Xuanlin Tham

The tri­als and tribu­la­tions of one cou­ple’s rela­tion­ship are under the micro­scope in Devo­rah Baum and Josh Appig­nane­si’s frus­trat­ing documentary.