T-Rex
By Emefa Timpo June 24, 2016
A deft and subtle look at the world of a boxer, a woman, an African American woman, and an athlete.
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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
By Hayden Jacoves
This portmanteau of the 1960’s counterculture figure creates a portrait of a prickly, uncompromising man. It eschews the normal rock bio-doc format, and it’s all the better for it.
Nuts!
By Hayden Jacoves June 22, 2016
Yes, the “nuts” of the title is a double entendre, and what starts out as a movie that seems to be the quirky story of an intriguing, forgotten man turns into an exploration of the dangerous traps of the documentary format.
Tickled
By Kyle Mustain June 17, 2016
An addition to a new class of investigative documentaries focusing on the devastation that can result when those who have money at their disposal do whatever they want.
Parched
By Cary Meltzer Frostick
Director Lena Yadav has turned first-hand knowledge into an intriguing script that, combined with Russell Carpenter’s (Titanic) rich and varied cinematography, gives voice to women who have little or no say over their own lives.
De Palma
By Mahnaz Dar June 11, 2016
Here, the acclaimed—and often maligned—director of Carrie, Dressed to Kill, and Scarface takes an honest, insightful, and often funny look at his path, a career that’s resulted in plenty of box office hits—but more than a few clunkers.
Presenting Princess Shaw
By Kyle Mustain June 3, 2016
One artist from across the world finds a connection with someone he’s never met and uses his genius and the tools at his disposal to give her what she could not have done on her own.
The Witness
By Ted Metrakas
The murder of Kitty Genovese is one of the most famous cases in the history of sociology and criminology, and this documentary accomplishes something remarkable by making us reconsider a story, and a concept, that we’ve long taken for granted as true.
Weiner
By Ted Metrakas June 2, 2016
During his 2013 campaign for New York City mayor, politician Anthony Weiner allowed two filmmakers to follow him around the clock. Entertaining, revealing, and occasionally funny, the result will give psychotherapists around the country, armchair and otherwise, ample fodder.