Peppy and fast-paced, it's great fun, and a joy to watch.

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I met with documentary director Lisa D’Apolito on Thursday, June 14, 2018, at AFI DOCS, to discuss her feature debut Love, Gilda (which I also reviewed). The film offers a comprehensive cinematic portrait of the late, great Gilda Radner, part […]

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It's like a combination of Stacy Peralta's Dogtown and Z-Boys and Richard Linklater's Boyhood, while also uniquely its own marvelous thing.

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Imagine visiting Germany and seeing a giant memorial built to Hitler at the Eagle's Nest. How did Franco escape the same fate as his one-time fascist contemporaries? Questions, indeed...

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Though Hal is cinematically straightforward, without any striking innovations of its own, the material it showcases elevates it beyond the pedestrian biopic, making it a wonderful tribute to its subject's free spirit and brilliant talent.

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Yours in Sisterhood honors the underrepresented, creating a work of bold, original cinema that is bracing, entertaining and vital.

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If, as I was before watching this film, you are somehow ignorant of the artistic achievements of identical twin brothers Jerome and Joel-Peter Witkin, have no fear: Trisha Ziff's in-depth documentary about the pair, Witkin & Witkin, will more than hold your interest

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They have a lot to say, and by the time the movie concludes, they feel like old friends. This is the cinematic tribute they deserve, gorgeous and somber in equal measure.

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I particularly loved how Miron, whose first feature this is, surprises us time and again with new plot developments.

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