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Leave No Trace (2022) 83% EDIT “The superbly conceived documentary Leave No Trace sets about the task of revealing how the once-revered organization fell from grace, and it does so with a brutal clarity that’s one of its most potent weapons.” – Wall Street Journal Jun 10, 2022 Full Review Four Hours at the Capitol (2021) 89% EDIT “This singularly gripping work, timely for obvious reasons, is eloquent testimony to American political life today.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 20, 2021 Full Review The Many Saints of Newark (2021) 72% EDIT “Even the pleasurable sight of Michael Gandolfini as young Tony was never going to make up for the complete absence, in this film, of anything remotely reflective of the tone and color of The Sopranos.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 2, 2021 Full Review All the Way (2016) 85% EDIT “Virtually everything about this exhilarating work -- its enterprise, its unfailing humor, its drama... would be cause for celebration at any time.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 7, 2020 Full Review EDIT “The story of the Shanghai refuge for Jews mainly fleeing Germany and Austria in the late 1930s has been told before, but not in a film as detailed and probing as Harbor From the Holocaust.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 4, 2020 Full Review Temple Grandin (2010) 100% EDIT “So completely does [Claire Danes] capture her subject's hard-learned speech, the genderless stride, the flashes of terror and brilliance and, occasionally, radiant joy, that it's impossible to find a trace of the actor beneath” – Wall Street Journal Jul 25, 2020 Full Review Cinema Verite (2011) 61% EDIT “A film that ends up packing an emotional punch that's as surprising as it is eloquent.” – Wall Street Journal Jun 4, 2020 Full Review Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) 49% EDIT “That this rich, impressively ambitious film says far more about Martha Gellhorn than about Ernest Hemingway was inevitable.” – Wall Street Journal Jun 1, 2020 Full Review Viral: Anti-Semitism in Four Mutations (2020) 86% EDIT “A riveting study, if one notably unbalanced with regard to one country.” – Wall Street Journal May 29, 2020 Full Review The Windermere Children (2020) 100% EDIT “Impressively devoid of sentimentality, grim in its facts, and moving in its portrait of the determined effort to rescue these young lives.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 2, 2020 Full Review Horse Girl (2020) 72% EDIT “A shaky dramatic enterprise. Nevertheless, this story of Sarah (a distinguished performance by Alison Brie) -- a seemingly normal young woman at the mercy of frightful delusions -- quickly proves seductive.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 6, 2020 Full Review For Sama (2019) 98% EDIT “They display a striking buoyancy, which the film captures in moving detail -- there is laughter, there is comradeship, there is life even in the face of horror.” – Wall Street Journal Nov 15, 2019 Full Review Dana Carvey: Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies (2008) 20% EDIT “A Carvey comedy special comes with special problems -- for one, a star with minimal skills for stand-up comedy. He's wildly repetitious, punishing to hear in his gnawing on the same mirth-free shtick.” – Wall Street Journal Aug 1, 2019 Full Review EDIT “The documentary is at its best both in its colorfully detailed chronicle of the case and in its picture of the raw political ambition that was no small force in this prosecution.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 26, 2019 Full Review The Cold Blue (2018) 100% EDIT “The film portrays the daily existence of the young men of the Eighth Air Force, whose experiences flying impossibly exhausting and terrifying daily bombing missions come alive via the recollections of nine surviving veterans.” – Wall Street Journal May 31, 2019 Full Review EDIT “This endlessly enchanting film is never better than when it's delivering instruction on the comparative strengths of the contenders.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 22, 2019 Full Review Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018) 100% EDIT “Comes with a heavenly supply of gossip, a treasury of revered observations on life -- mainly wisecracks -- and a delectably detailed view of the larger world of print journalism in which its subjects thrived.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 25, 2019 Full Review EDIT “The film's assemblage of witnesses succeeds in evoking a history alive to the terrors confronting writers and other public intellectuals under the Stalinist regime.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 28, 2018 Full Review Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018) 97% EDIT “It's hard to overstate the pleasures of this film or, more precisely, this encounter with its subject.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 24, 2018 Full Review No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) 88% EDIT “Fans of Bob Dylan and others ambitious enough to sit through "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan" will discover early on that it yields no revelatory light to speak of on its subject.” – Wall Street Journal Jun 14, 2018 Full Review Fahrenheit 451 (2018) 31% EDIT “No one expects in a 21st-century film version, an hour and a half in length, anything approaching the subtlety and character that went into Bradbury's novel. Still one might have asked-of a film titled "Fahrenheit 451"-for more than a one-note rant.” – Wall Street Journal May 18, 2018 Full Review A Dangerous Son (2018) EDIT “No one watching this will soon forget these films, the looks in the eyes of a 10-year-old or a young teenager driven by the rage within.” – Wall Street Journal May 4, 2018 Full Review Mercury 13 (2018) 100% EDIT “This is the sort of film that begins modestly-seemingly only a piece of curious history-and grows steadily deeper as it moves to its climax, and that climax is a powerful one.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 20, 2018 Full Review Paterno (2018) 69% EDIT “Al Pacino's Paterno is so convincing, and eerily lifelike it becomes necessary from time to time, to remember that this isn't the actual coach” – Wall Street Journal Apr 6, 2018 Full Review The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (2017) 94% EDIT “What's not so expected, what comes as something bordering on shock, of a gratifying kind, is how much else the film takes on in this buoyant and mercilessly frank look at Bradlee's life and career.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 1, 2017 Full Review
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