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Review: Oscar-Nominated Short Documentary Films Explore Issues of the Environment, Community, Family and Politics

In order to qualify for the Academy Awards for short films (in the live action, animation or documentary categories), a…

There’s nothing particularly exceptional about the filmmaking on display in Rock Camp, a new film about the long-running Rock ‘n Roll…

On a recent episode of the New York Times podcast “The Daily,” the show that focuses on one timely news…

As author Fran Lebowitz reminds us in the terrific new documentary The Booksellers, there was a time not so long…

Quite often, documentaries built around political themes have a long list of grievances but not a lot when it comes…

If you plan to see the Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts Program, now playing at the Music Box Theatre, keep in…

We Believe in Dinosaurs is the title of the handsomely made documentary feature directed by Clayton Brown and Monica Long…

Perhaps one of his more complicated and layered profile documentaries, the latest from filmmaker Alex Gibney (an Oscar winner for…

Although it didn’t make the cut as an Academy Award nominee earlier this week, the documentary feature Midnight Family did…

It seems odd to be reviewing a documentary about a film critic whose influence is still a big part of…

Merce Cunningham died in 2009 at the age of 90, and in his decades-long career as a dancer and choreographer,…

The reason I separate out documentaries into their own Best of the Year list is not because I feel they…