Remembering Gene Wilder
By Ben Wasserman March 21, 2024
What the documentary about the actor’s career gets right is Wilder’s love of life itself.
What the documentary about the actor’s career gets right is Wilder’s love of life itself.
Praising director Mstyslav Chernov’s bravery is so obvious it feels impertinent, as does describing his documentary with the trite phrase “necessary viewing.”
An informative and moving documentary that delves into the many difficulties of spending a long time in outer space.
The fashion designer’s insidious, anti-Semitic comments overrides the runway footage and the fawning heaps of praise from luminaries.
Kimi Takesue’s entrancingly framed image-based documentary follows swarms of tourists in Laos.
A documentary exploration and celebration of those personal and collective specters that define our relationship with movies (and any audiovisual record).
Directed by actress Hiam Abbass’s daughter, the documentary examines what Abbass could and could not leave behind after she left her Palestinian family for Europe.
Filmmaker Matthew Heineman offers a window into the lives of Jon Batiste and his partner Suleika Jaouad at an incredibly fraught time.
Director Denny Tedesco’s enjoyable documentary follows the long and winding careers of four men who are widely considered among the best session musicians of the rock era.