Gideon’s Army
The soldiers of "Gideon's Army," Dawn Porter's stirring debut docu, are public defenders -- lawyers who dedicate themselves to representing the indigent, and regularly answering the question, "How can you...
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Salma
Coming on the heels of the recent rape-murder scandal in India, Kim Longinotto's "Salma" feels like a dispatch from the social-justice front, a profile that in many way symbolizes the...
Honor Flight
Nine hundred WWII veterans die every day, according to helmer Dan Hayes' docu homage "Honor Flight" -- a statistic that underscores the urgency of honoring the Americans who fought the...
Honor Flight
Nine hundred WWII veterans die every day, according to helmer Dan Hayes' docu homage "Honor Flight" -- a statistic that underscores the urgency of honoring the Americans who fought the...
Head Games
Parents could be making their kids wear helmets to the library by the conclusion of helmer Steve James' science-and-sports docu "Head Games," which scores solid hits on everyone from the...
Head Games
Parents could be making their kids wear helmets to the library by the conclusion of helmer Steve James' science-and-sports docu "Head Games," which scores solid hits on everyone from the...
Zaytoun
A Middle Eastern road movie/buddy picture built around the oddest of couples -- an Israeli pilot, and a 12-year old Palestinian -- "Zaytoun" is an accessible, briskly paced and occasionally...
Zaytoun
A Middle Eastern road movie/buddy picture built around the oddest of couples -- an Israeli pilot, and a 12-year old Palestinian -- "Zaytoun" is an accessible, briskly paced and occasionally...
A World Not Ours
It's rare that music plays such a critical, even philosophical, role in a film as it does in Mahdi Fleifel's passionate, ironic, bittersweet "A World Not Ours," a doc that...
A World Not Ours
It's rare that music plays such a critical, even philosophical, role in a film as it does in Mahdi Fleifel's passionate, ironic, bittersweet "A World Not Ours," a doc that...