Genesis 2.0
By Benjamin Tran December 31, 2018
Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei has stitched together an expansive, awe-inspiring, and ominous window into the future of genetic research.
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Crime+Punishment
By Guillermo Lopez Meza December 30, 2018
A valuable documentary about the illegal practice of arrest quotas by the New York Police Department.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
By Andrew Plimpton December 26, 2018
A startling, highly unconventional, and atmospheric documentary.
Destroyer
By Caroline Ely December 20, 2018
Nicole Kidman has achieved an unnerving transformation to play a ravaged police detective in director Karyn Kusama’s sweeping, dark film.
The Best of 2018
By Kent Turner December 17, 2018
A list of acclaimed documentaries and feature films that might have slipped between the cracks over the course of this past—very good—year.
Capernaum
By Phil Guie
The film works so well because of the terrific work by the actors, especially Al Rafeea as Zain as a 12-year-old runaway suing his parents.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
By Kent Turner December 12, 2018
Morgan Neville’s wistful documentary focuses primarily on the ideas that propelled the work of Fred Rogers.
En el Séptimo Día
By Andrew Plimpton December 11, 2018
This may be the first film since the advent of Grubhub and Seamless to portray the workers on the other end of the app. It does that and much more.
Burning
By Guillermo Lopez Meza
A reading of this movie through the lens of The Great Gatsby isn’t so ridiculous, though the film’s trio is much more than a twisted version of Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby.