Fortunately, the movie ends on a higher note, as we see what has become of Daisy.

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If everyone looks like an enemy, shoot first and ask questions later. Is this who we are, dear United States? Atkinson’s film forces the question. How will you answer?

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I met with director Tracy Droz Tragos at the 2016 AFI DOCS on Thursday, June 23, 2016, to discuss her new documentary Abortion: Stories Women Tell, (which I also reviewed here) in which she focuses on the experiences of a […]

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Under the Sun is fairly extraordinary in its exposure of the lies that prop up North Korea’s system.

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But the way he structures the movie – with journalistic reveal after journalistic reveal – makes it the first that I have seen where the artifice actually serves to make the experience feel even more real, as paradoxical as that may seem.

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Hubris and its consequences form the investigative spine of Gibney’s career, and what makes Zero Days, its narrative density notwithstanding, especially chilling is that we just don’t know...

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