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Wrestle

A documentary that deserves to stand alongside the best films about youth who pursue sports for a shot at a better life.

Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei has stitched together an expansive, awe-inspiring, and ominous window into the future of genetic research.

A valuable documentary about the illegal practice of arrest quotas by the New York Police Department.

A startling, highly unconventional, and atmospheric documentary.

Nicole Kidman has achieved an unnerving transformation to play a ravaged police detective in director Karyn Kusama’s sweeping, dark film.

A list of acclaimed documentaries and feature films that might have slipped between the cracks over the course of this past—very good—year.

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.

Morgan Neville’s wistful documentary focuses primarily on the ideas that propelled the work of Fred Rogers.

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.