Neil Giordano
DC/DOX spotlights documentaries that confront the human cost of tourism, policing, and surveillance—alongside bold experiments in nonfiction form.
Bi Gan’s sumptuous elegy to cinema is an artistic triumph, but the dreamy narrative may leave some viewers restless.
Impish, absurd, and entertaining, “Pavements” tosses the musical biopic into a counterfactual blender.
The new bio-doc about producer-musician Brian Eno looks at the artist’s life and his creative process in a deliberately provocative new format.
“Nickel Boys” is an unsettling, yet gorgeous, cinematic adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel.
For its 10th anniversary, the Boston Globe’s documentary festival expanded its cinematic field to a wide variety of genres and subjects.
Two films about the glories of summer are infused with bittersweet reminders of the reality of social class in America.
Want to see some excellent new films? How about in pairs?
By Neil Giordano A selection of notable documentaries currently in the digital universe: Christian missionaries, high school athletics, and a trio of filmmakers who mess with Texas. A familiar story — a young man on a quixotic quest that ends in tragedy — takes a new turn in National Geographic’s The Mission (Hulu, Disney+), a…
“Four Daughters” calls attention to the complex and admittedly slippery nature of nonfiction filmmaking.
Visual Arts Commentary: “America at 250” — Art and Commerce at the MFA