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About Ted Metrakas

Ted Metrakas is a Brooklyn-based writer and philosopher and longtime contributor to Film-Forward. You can find his other keen observations and sharp cultural critiques on his website, tedmetrakas.substack.com, or find and read his philosophy books Another New Word and Underground Horizon at these links.

Crown Heights

A stirring legal drama that will outrage and inspire in equal measure.

By |August 17th, 2017|Featured|0 Comments

Good Time

A worthy heir to the gritty 1970s New York films of Martin Scorsese. What Mean Streets and Taxi Driver did for 1970s Manhattan, Good Time does for Queens of the 2010s.

By |August 10th, 2017|Crime, Top Picks|0 Comments

Nowhere to Hide

The film is perhaps the best document of the consequences of the war in Iraq

By |July 2nd, 2017|Top Picks|0 Comments

God Knows Where I Am

God Knows Where I Am is the scariest, saddest film of the year.

By |April 9th, 2017|Documentary|0 Comments

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

A rousing call to arms for anyone interested in honest, issues-based journalism, this documentary could not be timelier.

By |November 28th, 2016|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

The Ivory Game

Executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, the documentary exposes the thriving market for ivory and starts a dialogue toward ending it. In this aim, the film is a smashing success.

By |November 3rd, 2016|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Environmental|0 Comments

Do Not Resist

The film could not be timelier, and it offers answers to one of the most vital questions of our time—why are citizens being treated like enemy combatants?

By |October 14th, 2016|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

Theo Who Lived

A vivid documentary about the two-year imprisonment of an American freelance journalist in war-torn Syria. A remarkable chronicle of empathy.

By |October 8th, 2016|Documentary, Top Picks, War|0 Comments

Snowden

Oliver Stone’s film covers a nine-year period in the life of security systems administrator turned whistleblower Edward Snowden, from an idealistic Special Forces enlistee to becoming the most wanted man in the world.

By |September 25th, 2016|Biopic|0 Comments