Brooklyn Castle Movie Review
Title: Brooklyn Castle Director: Katie Dellamaggiore An Audience Award winner at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, documentary “Brooklyn Castle” is, in the mold of fellow nonfiction flicks of emotional uplift…
Yogawoman Movie Review
Title: Yogawoman Directors: Kate McIntyre Clere, Saraswati Clere Narrated by Annette Bening, “Yogawoman” is a rangy but lethargically paced documentary about the gender-specific practice of yoga, and a serviceable and…
Lunch Movie Review
Title: Lunch Director: Donna Kanter “Lunch,” from director Donna Kanter, is a documentary movie whose simple logline pretty much serves as an accurate barometer of one’s enjoyment. Over almost 40…
We Are Legion: The Story of Hacktivists Movie Review
Title: We Are Legion: The Story of Hacktivists Director: Brian Knappenberger You may think you know about Anonymous, the decentralized online collective who have merrily pranked and disrupted high-level corporate…
A Whisper to a Roar Movie Review
Title: A Whisper to a Roar Director: Ben Moses A sort of voting rights companion piece to Steve York’s “A Force More Powerful,” which was a rangy nonfiction film about…
Sexy Baby Movie Review
Title: Sexy Baby Directors: Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus With the proliferation of online pornography, the advent of “sexting” and the ever-present synaptic connection of social media, sexual maturation and…
Photographic Memory Movie Review
Title: Photographic Memory Director: Ross McElwee In David Lynch’s trippy, 1997 neo-noir psychological thriller “Lost Highway,” Bill Pullman’s Fred Madison explains his aversion to video cameras thusly: “I like to…
The Flat Movie Review
Title: The Flat Director: Arnon Goldfinger An earnest and deeply personal exhumation of proverbial skeletons in the family closet, director Arnon Goldfinger’s “The Flat” is nonetheless deadly dull — a…
Head Games Movie Review
Title: Head Games Director: Steve James There may not be a more important documentary released this year for the general health of especially sports-playing American kids than “Head Games,” director…