Make It Real

In The Gospel of Eureka, the humor and fabulous pageantry are more than just for laughs

Wang Bing’s Dead Souls does justice to the few who lived to tell the tale of mass atrocity

Making something out of nothing, some filmmakers use blank screens to fill our minds

Revisited and reshaped, old footage fuels new reflections in two Sundance documentaries

Our nonfiction critic singles out his favorite screenings of 2017, where audience, film, and venue met their match

Brushes with fame are easy to market, but the best portraits of artists and celebrity go deeper

In two new documentaries, the subjects are playing for the camera—and what’s wrong with that?

Laura Poitras’s Risk and Mark Grieco’s A River Below grapple with trust and truth

Melding screening and performance, filmmakers like Travis Wilkerson search for new paths to intimacy and spontaneity

A new crop of documentaries use the “first-person” approach to move beyond the self