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About Kevin Filipski

Kevin Filipski earned his master's degree in Cinema Studies from New York University and has written about the arts for the New York Times, Playbill, Time Out New York, and Brooklyn Paper, along with several websites.

Predators

A fascinating and unsettling watch, highlighting the contradictions of "To Catch a Predator."

By |September 18th, 2025|Documentary|0 Comments

Riefenstahl

Andres Veiel’s unsettling and persuasive documentary uncovers filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's distortions of the truth.

By |September 5th, 2025|Film History, Top Picks|0 Comments

The Musicians

The exhilaration of making music together.

By |August 7th, 2025|Comedy|0 Comments

An Officer and a Spy

Roman Polanski’s most personal film since The Pianist (2002) revisits one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in French history.

By |August 7th, 2025|Costume Drama, Top Picks|0 Comments

Shoshana

The biopic follows its titular heroine through the turbulent late 1930s in Tel Aviv.

By |July 24th, 2025|Biopic|0 Comments

Life After

Elizabeth Bouvia and her demand for the right to die is at the center of Reid Davenport’s angry, unapologetically polemical documentary.

By |July 17th, 2025|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

Familiar Touch

Rarely has the subject of dementia been explored with such delicacy and insight as in Sarah Friedland’s feature debut.

By |June 21st, 2025|Indie, Top Picks|0 Comments

Television Event

Did a made-for-TV movie actually influence U.S. nuclear policy?

By |June 2nd, 2025|Documentary|0 Comments

Pink Floyd at Pompeii: MCMLXXII

Adrian Maben’s 1972 concert film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii has been digitally restored and remixed for IMAX screens.

By |April 25th, 2025|Music|0 Comments