This is a film best seen as the effort of a curious artist, endlessly intrigued by the way the world works and ambitious enough to share the mysteries discovered.

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Autobiography as lyrical portrait, Wojciech Staroń’s Two Lessons is a quietly moving and deeply beautiful nonfiction diptych.

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At this stage in his life’s work, I’m willing to give my hero Frederick Wiseman every minute he asks for.

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These Birds Walk is messy with life and lyricism, a searching, empathetic piece of cinematic nonfiction that holds a close-up on a misunderstood part of the world and heralds the arrival of two new powerful voices in documentary.

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The time has come to recognize an aspect of nonfiction cinema that has been overlooked for too long. The nature of documentary, of course, is that the image is based in reality. But it has come to be axiomatic that […]

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The Last Station is a film about death and dying, yes, but it's also a film about life, the fragility of experience and the expressive potential of cinema.

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A movie of uncommon complexity, Sleepless Nights is a harrowing exploration of the slow, ambiguous march of history and memory.

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The progeny of direct cinema, experimental film and ethnography, Leviathan uses new cameras and an inventive technique to create something bracingly distinctive.

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