Diana Clarke

This particular rendition of a history often told is little more than propaganda.

It's too rare for movies to depict women working together as friends to effect political change, and this one makes it seem righteous, loud, and fun as a rock concert. Free the Nipple won't change the conversation, but it might help start one.

It's a movie that thinks it stands for openness and cultural understanding, underneath the poop jokes, when in fact it manages to be offensive to almost everyone, including people who like to laugh at something because it's funny, not just because it makes us uncomfortable.

An enraging portrait of entrenched sexism in competitive sports that proves parity is worth fighting for.

The Jewish Cardinal uses the luscious pleasures of the everyday to underscore and endure the big questions of identity, humanity, and home.

This very serious film sometimes feels like a farce.

Vail's film earnestly interrogates authenticity even as her camera lingers on a beach without footprints, inviting the viewer to walk.

[A] gorgeous and unsettling documentary.

The documentary can sometimes feel like a video game, with cartoonish pinging graphics, but the real-life consequences of digital activity, from arrests to CIA monitoring and a total lack of privacy for ordinary citizens, heighten its stakes.

Urgent, deeply painful yet lovely in its aesthetics.

Despite its context in a global conflict, Uprising is a strangely intimate film.

It's laugh-out-loud silly if you're in the mood, but mostly embarrassing. Science could certainly use more philosophy, but not at the expense of dignity, never mind common sense.

The short documentary On Beauty is all surfaces, skimming, lightness, flash.

At least the filmmakers are Jewish — and in their admirable quest for an understanding of what makes good sex and relationships, they've created a mightily silly but occasionally insightful, and certainly entertaining, film.

A dance is not only motion, but emotion. This fascinating film reminds us how closely the two are linked.