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Vice is Broke movie review: Eddie Huang's hit-piece/hate-piece chokes the voice of a generation
September 04, 2025 8:05 am
Vice is Broke movie review: A cautionary tale about greed that occasionally resembles a personal hit-piece, Eddie Huang's documentary recalls the rise and fall of Vice Media.
Blink movie review: One of 2024's best documentaries; a deeply moving and life-affirming tribute to human resilience
January 11, 2025 7:57 am
Blink movie review: When three of their four children contract an incurable illness that will render them blind, a Canadian couple goes on a tour of the world while they're still able to appreciate its beauty.
New UK documentary examines racist attacks on British Indians
April 06, 2024 4:59 pm
The film highlights how the community stood in the face of a rising tide of anti-immigrant feelings and a campaign of violence and intimidation unleashed by notorious far-right and racist groups such as the National Front.
Raël - The Alien Prophet review: Human clones, sex slaves and extraterrestrial encounters uncovered in Netflix documentary about French cult
February 10, 2024 9:56 pm
Raël The Alien Prophet review: An ordinary-looking Frenchman, who used to be a race car driver, a journalist, and a singer, dropped it all and became a messiah after having a close encounter with an extraterrestrial.
The Mission review: Devotion leads an American missionary to his death in the Andamans
December 29, 2023 4:07 pm
The Mission movie review: National Geographic's new documentary captures the obsession, devotion and delusion that led American missionary John Allen Chau to his death in the Andaman Islands.
Curry and Cyanide movie review: Netflix's dissatisfying true crime documentary inelegantly exhumes Jolly Joseph serial killings case
December 23, 2023 11:55 am
Curry and Cyanide movie review: Superficial and salacious, Netflix's documentary about the Jolly Joseph case doesn't deviate from the true crime template.
While We Watched: Tragic Ravish Kumar documentary is the best war movie of the year
September 16, 2023 11:29 am
Post Credits Scene: While We Watched, Vinay Shukla's profile of Ravish Kumar (and a country in crisis) works as a dystopian thriller, a character study about loneliness, and also a newsroom drama. But more than anything else, it's the best war movie of the year.
AP Dhillon First of a Kind review: Prime Video series about Punjabi music phenom is all swag, little substance
August 18, 2023 5:26 pm
AP Dhillon First of a Kind review: Prime Video's four-part documentary series about the meteoric rise of Punjabi music's freshest icon doesn't scratch beneath the surface.
Poisoned - The Dirty Truth About Your Food movie review: Terrifying Netflix documentary offers compelling reasons to never eat food again
August 05, 2023 7:58 am
Poisoned movie review: The new Netflix shock-doc doesn't have a single jump scare, but it's the most terrifying film of the year so far.
Pune director explores notions of freedom in the short film ‘Anthems’
December 31, 2022 9:22 am
Packed with symbols and socio-political motifs, ‘Anthems’ zeroes in on an incident in the lives of its characters to draw a larger image of the history of nation-building. It will be on view till January 15.
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