The death of six-year-old Denver beauty queen JonBenet Ramsay is one of the greatest unsolved crimes. Some people consider the O.J. Simpson trial “their” crime story, but JonBenet Ramsay is mine. Only two years older than Ramsay and yet at…
Tribeca Review: City of Ghosts
I can only imagine that one of the hardest parts of being a documentary filmmaker is not letting the quality and importance of your footage be eclipsed by a lack of thematic focus or talent. Consider Bernard-Henri Lévy’s recent documentary…
Tribeca Review: The Family I Had
When he was little, Paris drew crayon pictures of dinosaurs and dreamed of being a paleontologist. When he came home from his school in Abilene, Texas, he’d play with his baby sister, playing silly games and making even sillier home…
Tribeca Review: LA 92
It only takes a single soundtrack cue to elevate Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin’s LA 92 from being a good documentary to an essential one. It comes about 15-20 minutes into the film. The city of Los Angeles braces itself…
Movie Review: All This Panic
Hollywood has tried to capture the experience of the teenage girl, as if it’s some dark mystery or the Rosetta Stone. Thirteen or The Virgin Suicides tap into the confusion and bouncy excitement of being a girl on the verge of…
SXSW Review: The Work
To read more SXSW coverage, click here. Very few movies have left me as lost for words as the documentary The Work, which chronicles four very intense days of group therapy. Just how intense? The sessions are in a maximum…
Movie Review: Kedi
When the alternate, dystopian universe we are all currently residing in is nothing more than a horrid dumpster fire with daily alerts that stress is taking years off of our lives, sometimes all we really want to do is curl…