SNL50: The Anniversary Special (2025)
72%
“The choice to favor new sketches over montages and other clips, this time, was smart; it’s not like old episodes of SNL are hard to find anymore.” –
TIME Magazine
Feb 18, 2025
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Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval (2024)
33%
“DeGeneres promised to 'talk about it' in For Your Approval, her farewell stand-up special. Unfortunately, she has nothing of value to say.” –
TIME Magazine
Oct 1, 2024
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
95%
“It is Goldin’s courage and determination that make her an effective activist, and her empathetic eye that makes her a great artist.” –
TIME Magazine
Mar 10, 2023
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The Janes (2022)
100%
“Through individual interviews, a composite image forms of a society touched on every level by half its population’s lack of bodily autonomy. ” –
TIME Magazine
Dec 14, 2022
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Prince (2022)
“As hit-or-miss as the sketches can be, it’s these new interstitials that betray the show’s true aimlessness...” –
TIME Magazine
Oct 21, 2022
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Britney Vs Spears (2021)
60%
“Hearing from so many people say they saw a woman who millions around the world care about being mistreated but couldn't, or simply didn't, do anything about it is heartbreaking.” –
TIME Magazine
Sep 30, 2021
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COVID Diaries NYC (2021)
“To watch COVID Diaries is to confront video evidence that the novel coronavirus was never the great equalizer so many were spuriously suggesting it was during the very same months when these shorts were being made.” –
TIME Magazine
Mar 11, 2021
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Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry (2021)
96%
“Excessively long but mostly insightful and absorbing...” –
TIME Magazine
Feb 26, 2021
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Fake Famous (2021)
73%
“A new documentary argues the obvious: that influencer culture is soulless. What's harder, and what would have made for a more worthwhile film, is to explain why such vapidity appeals to young people” –
TIME Magazine
Feb 6, 2021
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Amulet (2020)
73%
“...the most technically ambitious of these films, and through the first two-thirds, at least, it's jaggedly compelling...” –
TIME Magazine
Aug 18, 2020
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Taylor Swift: Miss Americana (2020)
91%
“With a more elegant, purposeful structure or at least more time to explore her toughest choices, Miss Americana might have given fans a satisfying portrait of the real Taylor Swift. As is, it's more like a sketch.” –
TIME Magazine
Jan 28, 2020
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
92%
“Paul earned three Emmys for his supporting role on Breaking Bad, and in El Camino he delivers a mesmerizing lead performance that proves he deserves a spot on Hollywood's A-list.” –
TIME Magazine
Oct 11, 2019
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Aziz Ansari: Right Now (2019)
84%
“His extensive complaints about performative wokeness among liberal white people don't exactly break new ground for stand-up... But he does have a knack for pushing these serious dilemmas into the realm of the absurd.” –
TIME Magazine
Jul 10, 2019
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Unicorn Store (2017)
66%
“Unicorn Store only ends up infantilizing millennials and, when it comes to Jackson's ethereal character, playing into offensive tropes.” –
TIME Magazine
Apr 4, 2019
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Rent Live (2019)
27%
“We'll never know whether a genuinely live version would have come closer to preserving the urgency of Larson's beloved musical, but it certainly would've had a better excuse for showing so many seams.” –
TIME Magazine
Jan 29, 2019
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Fyre (2019)
93%
“What's most haunting about the movie isn't the transformation itself so much as the emptiness of the desires that fuel it-essentially the same empty desires that both propelled McFarland and destroyed him.” –
TIME Magazine
Jan 17, 2019
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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006)
87%
4/5
“"Ultimately, your work is your world," Walker says toward the end of the documentary. 30th Century Man succeeds, then, because it inhabits the world of its subject.” –
Tiny Mix Tapes
Dec 6, 2018
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My Winnipeg (2007)
95%
4/5
“More an abstract hallucination than a photo-realist portrait, My Winnipeg would be out of place on the "documentary" shelf at the video store. But it deserves prime placement in the Guy Maddin canon.” –
Tiny Mix Tapes
Dec 6, 2018
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New York, I Love You (2009)
37%
2/5
“Most of the shorts suffer from similarly hackneyed story lines, with all action leading up to a pat resolution.” –
Tiny Mix Tapes
Dec 6, 2018
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Humpday (2009)
79%
3.5/5
“Where Humpday really excels is in its depiction of Ben and Andrew's relationship. After so many years apart, they speak easily and candidly to one another...” –
Tiny Mix Tapes
Dec 6, 2018
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Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
97%
“As seen through Lacy's compassionate lens, the Jane Fonda who lays bare her life in Five Acts is introspective and affable, confident yet forthcoming about her flaws and failures.” –
TIME Magazine
Sep 25, 2018
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)
29%
“Ortega's production is full of curious directorial choices like this. A few hit. Many miss.” –
Elle
Jun 11, 2018
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Nico, 1988 (2017)
94%
“Because [Susanna] Nicchiarelli gets all of that, Nico, 1988 never devolves into a sob story.” –
Pitchfork
Apr 25, 2018
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David Bowie: The Last Five Years (2017)
88%
“Bowie's untimely death was a tragedy, but at the very least, it finally got us really discussing his body of work. The Last Five Years continues that necessary conversation.” –
Pitchfork
Jan 11, 2018
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Detroit (2017)
82%
“Detroit, however, suggests [director Kathryn Bigelow] - and her current screenwriter - still can't quite tell the difference between an impactful film and an important one.” –
Mic.com
Sep 22, 2017
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