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‘Dean Martin: King of Cool’ Review: Not Giving A Damn Has A Price [Doc NYC]

November 24, 2021 9:17 am

Defining cool is as hopeless as explaining what makes a joke funny. That doesn’t stop Tom Donohue from trying anyway in his (arguably deeply uncool TMC-bound) documentary “Dean Martin: King of Cool.” A cavalca...

‘Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez’ Review: An Unsung Underground Comics Provocateur Gets His Due [DOC NYC]

Warren Cantrell

November 14, 2021 9:41 am

News, Reviews

Plagued with an overabundance of interesting ideas and characters, “Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez” explores several fascinating topics, ultimately finding itself bottlenecked by them. Ostensibly the...

‘Crazy, Not Insane’: Alex Gibney’s Latest Is An Unenlightening Look Into Serial Killers’ Psyches [DOC NYC Review]

Chris Barsanti

November 15, 2020 10:50 am

News, Reviews

Near the start of Alex Gibney’s documentary “Crazy, Not Insane,” his subject asks the kind of essential question that feels so unanswerable that it is brought up not nearly as often as it should be. Thinking a...

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‘Unfractured’: An Underwhelming Portrait Of Protest & Sandra Steingraber [DOC NYC Review]

Gary Garrison

November 16, 2017 4:50 pm

News, Reviews

Advocacy documentaries are a huge risk — such blatantly opinionated content risks alienating viewers, playing to an already established audience, and, in the end, failing to educate anyone. Still, some manage t...

‘This Is Congo’ Is A Gripping Look At Congo’s Troubled History [DOC NYC Review]

Andrew Crump

November 16, 2017 12:30 pm

News, Reviews

There’s a pliability to the title of Daniel McCabe’s documentary “This Is Congo”: It’s both a contract between the author and his audience and an apathetic shrug of the shoulders. McCabe immediately announces h...

‘Maddman’ Succumbs To The Cult Of Personality Of Steve Madden [DOC NYC Review]

Gary Garrison

November 13, 2017 4:26 pm

News, Reviews

The name Steve Madden is an interesting one. For those who came of age in the ‘90s, Madden’s shoes, with their ridiculous, disproportionate advertisements, their high-fashion style, and their affordable cost we...

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Barbara Kopple’s Overwrought & Emotionally Unsatisfying ‘A Murder In Mansfield’ [DOC NYC Review]

Lena Wilson

November 13, 2017 12:38 pm

News, Reviews

“I did not murder Mommy on purpose,” John Boyle Jr. insists. He stares at his son, Collier Landry, through thick glasses. “That’s not my intention, I did not plan that.” Collier Landry faces his father in an...

‘Far From The Tree’ Clip: Discover The True Nature Of Family [DOC NYC Exclusive]

Edward Davis

November 1, 2017 10:45 am

News

Family isn't always what you thought it might be. Sometimes, parents welcome children into the world who bring with them challenges that bring a new context to the relationship between fathers and mothers, and ...

Diedie Weng’s ‘The Beekeeper And His Son’ Is An Intimate & Compassionate Story Of Strife [DOC NYC Review]

Andrew Crump

November 18, 2016 2:24 pm

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Who would expect a family drama fueled by apiary disputes to be so captivating? Diedie Weng’s “The Beekeeper And His Son” reads as dry just by its title. Even 80 minutes of footage about bees and the keeping th...

Chronic Pain Doc ‘All The Rage’ Is A Biased Look At A Marginalized Doctor [DOC NYC Review]

Gary Garrison

November 18, 2016 12:25 pm

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Dr. John Sarno has, for many decades, been the face of a controversial movement in the medical community. As the head of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University, Sarno pioneered a p...

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