Starring:
Review:
Here?s a powerhouse of a documentary that makes you feel mad as
hell and unwilling to take it anymore. Filmmaker Joe Berlinger
(Paradise Lost) is calling out Chevron for despoiling the
Ecuadorean rainforest (via its merger with Texaco in 2001) and
using every spin in the Chevron PR book to pretend otherwise. A
1993 lawsuit pitting indigenous tribes […]

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Starring:
Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington
Review:
R.J. Cutler has crafted a subversively entertaining documentary
detailing the blood, sweat and tears Vogue editor Anna
Wintour exacted from her staff to produce the mammoth 2007 issue of
the fashion Bible. It?s all pre-economic collapse, meaning we get
to watch the fashionably rich enjoy their privileges while everyone
else, well, let them eat cake. […]

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Starring:
Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera
Review:
Enjoying this wondrous wisp of a something is easy, describing
it is hard. Luckily, Charlyne Yi is an enchantress. I’d follow her
anywhere. Maybe you saw her doing stand-up or acting in Knocked
Up. Here she is playing herself, sort of. She’s making a
documentary about love. Since she doesn’t believe in it, she
interviews […]

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Starring:
Mike Tyson
Review:
You won’t know what hit you after watching Tyson. This
power punch to the gut is one of the best movies of any kind this
year. But Tyson is going out as a documentary, a label that doesn’t
cut it for describing the overflow of ferocity and feeling on
display. Being a former heavyweight boxing champion […]

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Starring:
Kelly Cutrone, Nancy Kane, Carson Kressley, Jason Low, Jay
McCarr…
Review:
It didn’t grab me. Not at first. A documentary that tracks the
winner of a reality show — in this case Bravo’s Project
Runway — after his victory. Huh? But Eleven
Minutes busts a few fresh moves.
For starters, designer Jay McCarroll — proudly gay, chubby
and opinionated — knows […]

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Starring:
Kendall “Wink” Rivers, Scott Roberts
Review:
A star is born. Her name is Kimberly Rivers Roberts. Your never
heard of her. Not yet. Roberts didn’t write or direct Trouble
the Water, the behind-the-camera artistry in this wallop of a
movie is handled by the extraordinary team of Tia Lessin and Carl
Deal. Trouble the Water is a documentary, an […]

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