Diana Clarke

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

[A] fascinating, unnerving documentary.

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.

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

Deraspe returns specificity, intimacy, and human weirdness to this international scandal.

It's rare to find a film that portrays dancers of all shapes, colors, ages, and sizes as beautiful, which they are.

This film does not pander. Rather, it demands that the viewer rise to the occasion.

This strange, quiet film takes social narratives about romance and gender and upends them, often seeming like one thing until it's another.

This movie about violence and how it comes into intimate spaces refuses to make even animals only animal. It's beautiful and important and very strange.

The Yes Men visit rural Uganda, Canadian oil fields, Zuccotti Park, and a climate change conference in Copenhagen, but in its best moments this loopy yet informative doc becomes a buddy movie.

This film is a wakeup call in the best sense: urgent, clear, understated.

Fowler's work is bureaucratic, institutional, Western-focused. Which shouldn't matter, because it's good work, but as a story of salvation it feels too familiar.

It's a fault of feminism, of artistry, of generosity, for the older woman to envy one younger. And yet. How do we escape the myths into which we are born? We tell them, and show the hard work of telling.

López is a singularly tender, compelling, and articulate campaigner in this high-stakes struggle for justice, filmed with the urgency and suspense of a Hitchcock thriller.

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.

[A] bizarre and wonderful doc that's pitched like a home movie but crafted with fine, poignant sensibilities.

What a relief to watch this small, expert film — a pane of glass in a concrete wall — that whispers, that dares to stand still and witness ordinary human pain.

For a film whose central motif is dance, there's remarkably little dancing done onscreen, and though Rowland and her co-star share moments of tender, revealing conversation, the movie is ultimately underwhelming, its emotional range as limited as that of its characters.

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 can be unsettling, for regular documentary viewers, to take in a film so relentlessly optimistic, communal, and lacking in nostalgia, but those qualities were key to the success of the women of Biolley.

Monk With a Camera hints at answers, but imposes nothing. Like a good photograph, or a wise abbot, it only presents the evidence and allows us to arrive at truth.

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

Urgent, deeply painful yet lovely in its aesthetics.

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.

Lipper does an excellent job of using her film as a vehicle for the voices and concerns of Nigerians, and especially of Nigerian women, who are traditionally expected to stay at home while men operate in the public sphere. But Lipper does not limit her camera to political struggles.

The filmmakers assume, rightly for the most part, that viewers will be invested in the origin story and power struggles at the start-up MakerBot, one of the first companies to make and sell 3-D printers to the public.

[A] compelling and cogent documentary.

[A] gorgeous and unsettling documentary.