Film-Forward

Documentary

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Directors Peter Ettedgui and Ian Bonhôte deliver one of the year’s best and most heartbreaking documentaries.

The Memory of Justice

Marcel Ophuls’s intelligent and riveting 1976 film, newly restored, might be the most expansive canvas he ever worked on.

Holding Back the Tide

A completely unusual experience: part meditation, part tone poem, and part documentary.

Sorry/Not Sorry

The state of Hollywood, with its dual nature of hypocrisy and, at times, virtue signaling.

Sugarcane

An investigation of a Canadian Catholic mission uncovers a history of abuse—hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered there in 2021.

War Game

A documentary that takes as its premise that more insurrections are inevitable, and therefore must be anticipated.

Swan Song

An immersive behind-the-scenes look at a two-year effort to restage Swan Lake.

Hollywoodgate

An extremely rare exposé of an under-reported story and an opportunity to have an inside look into Afghanistan.

Eno

Most of the standard hallmarks of music documentaries go out the window here.