Documentarian Matthew Heineman is no stranger to exploring the frontlines of violence and human life. After immersing us in the lives of first responders during the days of COVID-19 lockdown in The First Wave, the war on ISIS in City […]

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(Ben Sharrock’s Limbo is in theaters now via Focus Features. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) In the opening scene of Limbo, we watch as a middle-aged […]

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I met with director Sedika Mojadidi on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at the 2019 Annapolis Film Festival to discuss Facing the Dragon, her newest documentary (which I also reviewed), winner of the Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature at the […]

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Angels are made of light, and politicians of money; same old, same old.

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Whatever its occasional flaws, then, Human Flow must be seen, reminding us of our common, if fractured, humanity.

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See the film, get angry, and let's figure out how to stop the madness perpetrated in our name.

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Writer/director Clément Cogitoire, for whom this is the first feature, has crafted a tale of unraveling where the sacrifice of moral superiority

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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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Hell and Back Again takes the viewer front and center on the physical battlefield and deep into the complex and troubled psyche of a charismatic young soldier.

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To say that Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s Restrepo starts with a bang is not to dabble in generic wordplay. This one-year chronicle (mid-‘07 to mid-‘08) of a platoon of American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan’s deadly Korengal Valley lets you know right away that the sole agenda of Restrepo is to present a faithful document of soldiers who are on the ground and in combat.

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