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‘Evidence’ Documentary Review

We often do not comprehend our parents’ occupations when we are children. Aside from professions like lawyer and doctor, the titles promptly explain their duties; there are a plethora of other careers that carry enigmatic titles and corporations that are tough to understand their business. This childish ignorance may clash …

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‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ Documentary Review – A Bureaucratic Portrait of a Long Fight for Freedom

During the peak of the internet’s spread in the early century, the media and the world were still coming to terms with the reach of this new medium. One of the questions and a new understanding related to information access: shifting from the concentration of it in selected vehicles and …

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‘Flophouse America’ Documentary Review – The Miserable Portrait of A Country

When discussing the sociopolitical problems of the United States, health care and housing are the primary issues in American society. The elevated prices of houses are due to the real estate industry, which raises the costs of residences to gain higher profit margins, benefiting from a basic human necessity: a …

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‘9-Month Contract’ Documentary Review – The Exploitation behind the Surrogacy Service

Ever since the organization of humanity in societies or colonies, female sexuality has been exploited. Hence, either through prostitution or paid pregnancies, there is a trade for the reproductive capacities of women. In a modern context, despite the prohibition in plenty of countries, surrogacy is a commercial practice that generates …

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‘Love+War’ Review – Another Utterly Conventional Documentary by Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Love+War is the second film in 2025 by Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Their first release, Lost in the Jungle, follows the survival of four children in the Colombian Amazon after a plane crash in the woods. The new projects from the Academy Award-winning recipients had premieres at two crucial …

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‘Serious People’ Movie Review – A Small and Nonsensical Comedy Gem

What if you could hire a doppelganger to solve your responsibilities while you dedicate yourself to another activity? It is the logline for Serious People, the directorial debut of Pasqual Gutierrez, which he co-directs with Ben Mullinkosson. Gutierrez is a prestigious music video director, having directed videos for The Weeknd, Madonna, and Playboi …

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‘Zodiac Killer Project’ Documentary Review – An X-Ray of True Crime Non-Fiction

The British multi-artist Charlie Shackleton is among the most fascinating figures in modern non-fiction. Throughout his extensive catalogue of short films, the director discussed criticism in the TikTok era, low-budget film production in the 1990s, but his most well-known work is a 607-minute static shot of paint drying on a brick …

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‘Always’ Documentary Film Review – An Utterly Tiring Poetic Look at Life

Documentary filmmaking captures a particular notion of reality. Although common sense believes non-fiction means an utter sense of reality, it is a false premise. Every frame shot by a camera is an illusion, a magical process provided by technique to transform into imagery; consequently, it eternalizes something. The same goes …

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‘Arrest the Midwife’ Documentary Film Review – A Lackluster Attempt at An Urgent Document of Our Times

Some labour and activities have existed since the beginning of human organization. One of them is midwifery. The assistance of a female individual during the birth of a child became an ordinary practice for several centuries. Yet, the professionalization of obstetrics replaced midwives with nurses, who assist the doctor during …

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‘True North’ Documentary Review – The Lyric Recounting of Canadian Protests 

The American documentary filmmaker Michéle Stephenson is one of the most exciting directors in the non-fiction community. Usually collaborating with her husband, Joe Brewster, the duo studies the Black American experience in their films. In 2023, they delivered an impressive pair of projects: the feature Going to Mars: The Nikki …

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‘Selena y Los Dinos’ Documentary Review – A Competent Portrait of the Life of a Legend

There are a few artists who make a generational impact. A work that influences and emotions for multiple decades, even if they are not with us anymore. It is the outstanding beauty of artistry that breaks the geographical and time barriers. An accurate example of that concept is Selena Quintanilla, …

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‘Rebuilding’ Film Review – Josh O’Connor’s Melancholic Performance as an American Cowboy in Reconstruction

Usually, the cinema portrays tragedies that occur as incidents or natural disasters, if we call them that. The seasonal ones do not get representation on the big screen. Some regions are more susceptible to tornadoes, natural fires, and earthquakes. They are due to the geographical and geological compositions of those …

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‘The Last One for the Road’ – Francesco Sossai’s Bittersweet Toast to Life

Each generation faces the inevitable clash with the ones before. They were morally superior, enjoyed life better, and lived through their days properly. The generational clash is arguably never fading. Each age gap has divergences within the collective of individuals, particularly in their relationships with the environment and with society …

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‘Belén’ Movie Review – The Portrait of the Success of Argentinian Feminism 

Throughout the complicated formation of Latin America, Catholicism became the norm for the so-called civilization of native populations. Hence, ever since its inception, the new continent has been a Catholic region, colonized mainly by the Portuguese and Spanish. Despite the colonial wounds, the imperial process carries severe traumas, particularly in …

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‘The Balloonists’ Documentary Film Review- An Overly Conventional Telling of an Impressive Achievement

Airplanes are a relatively new technology and type of transportation. Igniting in the 1900s, aviation quickly developed, taking less than 40 years from the first flights to their use as war machinery in World War II. However, at the end of the 1700s, the creation of balloons occurred. Even after …

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‘Whistle’ Documentary Film Review – An Unbalanced Look at a Fascinating Competition

In the non-fiction medium, there is a fascinating sub-genre. In recent years, filmmakers have been documenting unconventional competitions. In both Girls State & Boys State, we follow a mock representative election by high school students who are aficionados of politics. In Pianoforte, the filmmakers narrate the International Chopin Piano Competition, …

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