Taken for a ride: Jenkins’ moving image work artist incisively analyzes how images—in film, TV, advertising, and the media landscape—set limits on the possible.
I contain multitudes: the filmmaker discusses his new film—an ode to the impossibility of representing the nation—and his penchant for “copying” his own and other artists’ work
Run it back: a renewed interest in reenactment in documentary foregrounds two historically sidelined aspects of nonfiction cinema: performance and authorship
Country living: Radu Muntean’s searching gaze digs beneath the surface of an adventure gone wrong to unearth an incisive parable about charity and power
Fog lights: the beloved Colombia, Missouri festival returned to cinemas with a varied lineup of nonfiction works, including standouts Riotsville, USA, Brotherhood, 2nd Chance, and more
Urban decay: Despite Matt Reeves’s tip-top casting and his usual virtuosity, the latest Caped Crusader reboot fails to reimagine this by-now commonplace material
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