Advertisements Documentary directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ most popular documentaries, Boys State and Girls State, follow two groups of carefully selected high schoolers tasked with hypothetically creating a democratic government from the ground up, as part of a prestigious summer program.…
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Predators reveals that To Catch A Predator and its modern YouTube byproducts allow for a free pass to buy into the police state and exploitative entertainment founded on useless, fumbling nods to interpersonal justice.…
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'Mad Bills To Pay' is a modern dose of social realism.…
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Black Box Diaries highlights that, as it currently stands, we will not find justice through pathways run by patriarchy and the valuing of the upper-class and higher-powered voices over the marginalized. …
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Didi doesn’t soften the blows of early adolescence in the way many coming-of-age stories tend to, which only serves to make it all the more comforting.…
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Daughters is essential viewing in its insistence that we sit with the pain, grief, and ongoing that countless American families sit with daily under the oppression of the modern, for-profit prison system.…
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Against a bigoted statewide backdrop, this year’s Sundance included some particularly liberated, fluid, and complex ideas.…
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'The Starling Girl' documents the coming-of-age story of a repressed Christian girl with nuance and empathy.…
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Shot on film that lends it an oh-so-comforting grainy warmth, 'Theater Camp' invokes all those summers spent at sleepaway camps.…
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'My Animal' adapts to the werewolf trope with a queer lens; resulting in a dark, twisted tale of self-acceptance.…
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