You haven’t seen a true crime documentary quite like Charlie Shackleton’s Zodiac Killer Project. One of the best films at this year’s Sundance, where it won the NEXT Innovator Award, it finds the director revisiting a failed project to adapt […]

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Documentarian Amber Fares’ documentary, Coexistence, My Ass!, shines a light on how humor can be a vigorous tool in activism. It follows the rise of Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi, who grew up with a sense of unity in a […]

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One of the most chilling documentaries of this year forces us to take a hard, unfiltered look at this country’s controversial stand-your-ground laws. Director Geeta Gandbhir’s unflinching The Perfect Neighbor explores the events leading up to the 2023 murder of […]

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Oscar-nominated director Kim A. Snyder (Us Kids; Death By Numbers) dives deep into today’s nationwide fight against book banning in her critically acclaimed documentary, The Librarians. It follows the unnerving coordinated efforts in conservative-leaning states to ban books in numerous […]

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Documentarian David Osit (Mayor) examines the rise and fall of the sensational reality series “To Catch a Predator” in his newest documentary, Predators. The film, which premiered at Sundance, takes a closer look at the moral and ethical dilemmas that […]

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In her documentary Black Box Diaries, Japan-based journalist Shiori Itô takes on her most courageous, risky assignment yet – investigating her own sexual assault. The film, which premiered at Sundance, recounts the director’s harrowing experience of rape by a prominent […]

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In Lana Wison’s controversial new documentary, Look Into My Eyes, she trains her lens on real-world psychic sessions. Readers may be surprised to hear that I am interested in the occult and that I collect rare tarot card decks. I […]

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Over the past few years, a series of exposés and media (see Killers of the Flower Moon) have shed light on various injustices inflicted on Indigenous populations throughout history. But nothing will truly prepare you for the earth-shattering truths uncovered […]

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The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the Jury and Audience award winners for its 2024 edition. The U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury prize went to first-time director Alessandra Lacorazza’s In the Summers, about two sisters who navigate their loving but volatile […]

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A year in the life of a hospital chaplain is captured in Luke Lorentzen’s newest documentary, A Still Small Voice. The subject that is tackled head-on is grief, which is shown through the eyes of Margaret “Mati” Engel as she […]

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