Stirring and frankly quite patriotic.
"Our boys got a raw deal when they came back from Vietnam," an aging World War II veteran says in THE WAY WE GET BY, a poignant and lovingly constructed documentary by Aron Gaudet. The documentary, which works successfully on several levels, follows a group of "troop greeters" who do their volunteer work at the Bangor, Maine airport. This airport...
Review by: SteveRhodes
Added: 4 years ago
A very revealing and telling history.
Tyson (2008) is a very revealing and telling history of Mike Tyson's life told by Tyson himself. He talks through his childhood up to current day in a very open and candid manner. The filmmaker (James Toback) did a perfect job of letting him tell his story without coaxing or slanting the film to any side; it is simply Mike's story. Most of the ...
Review by: DainBinder
Added: 4 years ago
Thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining.
EVERY LITTLE STEP, by directors Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern, is a documentary that follows people auditioning for a musical about people auditioning for a musical. So does the mere description of this documentary about people auditioning to get parts of the Broadway revival of "A Chorus Line" have your heading spinning? Well, don't worry. ...
Review by: SteveRhodes
Added: 4 years ago
Dynamic, groundbreaking.
Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir is an extraordinary documentary that choricles the experiences of several young Israeli soldiers during the 1982 Lebanon War. Save for the shocking archival footage that serves as Folman's chilling coda, the film has been animated in dynamic, groundbreaking style. There's a fluidity and coherence to the war scenes that...
Review by: MiamiMovieCritic
Added: 4 years ago
