45 featured critic reviews. Page 2 of 5.
★★★★★
Ryan White documents poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing terminal illness with humor and unguarded affection—earned tears, not sentiment.
The year's most honest love story is a documentary.
★★★★½
Mark Obenhaus traces Seymour Hersh's decades of unwelcome scoops in a documentary that doubles as a masterclass in why dogged reporting still matters.
Essential for anyone who cares about truth in an age of noise.
★★★★★
DiMarco reconstructs the 1988 Gallaudet protests with formal inventiveness that puts deaf perspective at the center of its own historic telling.
Essential history, told with the urgency it deserves.
★★★★★
Lund stretches one last amateur ballgame into a shaggy elegy for small-town ritual, finding poignancy in the sport's dead time and enduring friendships.
Patient, shaggy, and unexpectedly moving — if you meet it on its own clock.
★★★★☆
Kelly O'Sullivan's Chicago drama turns a real family cast into something rare — a grief story that earns its Shakespeare without a single false note.
Celluloid Pick and deeply human.
★★★½☆
India Donaldson's piercing debut turns a Catskills backpacking trip into a quiet study of how fathers fail their daughters.
A sharp debut that splits audiences and rewards patience.
★★★★☆
Azazel Jacobs traps Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon in a dying father's apartment — and the claustrophobia is the whole point.
Ensemble drama at its most precise.
★★★★☆
Louise Courvoisier finds unexpected sweetness in a teenager's clumsy attempt to hold his family together after his father's death.
A gentle French masterwork hiding in plain sight.
★★★½☆
Amy Berg's intimate portrait of Jeff Buckley's brief, restless career mourns without wallowing, anchored by home recordings and unguarded interviews.
The definitive Buckley documentary — finally.