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Documentary

Little Richard: I Am Everything | Sundance 2023

Smoothly entertaining and fast-paced, Lisa Cortés’s documentary thrives on her quotable and boisterous subject.

Pianoforte | Sundance 2023

There is still life in the kids-in-competition documentary mini-genre, here focusing on the prestigious 2021 International Chopin Piano Prize.

Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

Part nostalgia, part nerd hero worship, the engaging and entertaining Turn Every Page will delight fans of the written word.

Wildcat

An affecting and occasionally bracing documentary that plunders the complicated relationships and parallels between human and animal.

ICYMI: The Territory | Navalny | The Janes

Now streaming, three real-life stories of resistance and repression. In each, the emphasis is on hope.

Good Night Oppy

Rarely has science been so buoyantly personalized as in this wondrous journey that follows the amazing—and extended—lifetime of the Mars rover Opportunity.

The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

If you’re in the mood for something stylish, breezy, yet moving, A Treasure of His Youth should provoke a bravo or three.

“Sr.”

As an introduction to the work of Robert Downey Sr., the documentary is instructive and makes you want to visit his irreverent films. As a celebration of a father-son relationship, it’s sublime.

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

How the concept of Black Power came from a specific time and place.