Dayton O. Hyde has accomplished so much and enjoyed such a wide range of experiences over his 88 years, it’s as if he’s lived several lives. But “Running Wild” is a rather ordinary documentary about this extraordinary man. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
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RogerEbert.com — Muscle Shoals
Now “Muscle Shoals” has got the Swampers. And Aretha, and Percy, and Mick, and Keith. My RogerEbert.com review of this entertaining and enlightening music documentary. Read the review here...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — After Tiller
The documentary “After Tiller” takes the politically divisive, emotionally charged issue of late-term abortions and portrays it with grace, understatement and humanity. It is sure to piss people off. My review for RogerEbert.com. Read the review here...
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The Weinstein Co. Rated PG-13 for disturbing war images, thematic elements and smoking. Running time: 120 minutes. Two stars out of four. J.D. Salinger, the man, would have hated “Salinger,” the film — not just because the famously reclusive writer would have recoiled at the effort to expose his private...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Salinger
The What the Flick?! crew tries not to be phony in our review of the documentary “Salinger.”...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — One Direction: This Is Us
When the fine folks at RogerEbert.com needed a review of the One Direction documentary, they came to the right place. I definitely have some thoughts on the lads — “a confection, held together by hair product and harmony” — as well as the glossy, superficial way director Morgan Spurlock depicts...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — One Direction: This Is Us
They’re just five regular lads having the time of their lives — or so the members of One Direction keep telling us over and over again in Morgan Spurlock’s glossy, superficially entertaining documentary....
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Amy Nicholson and I know our way around a boy band. The LA Weekly film critic and I are grown-ass women, but we’re not above singing along to the Backstreet Boys in my kitchen — and harmonizing. That’s how dorky we are. So when I saw that the documentary “One...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Off Label
My RogerEbert.com review of the documentary “Off Label,” an indictment of Big Pharma that tries to encompass so many people and so many angles in such a short amount of time, it ends up breezing through them and providing glimpses that feel rushed and unsatisfying. Read the review here...
Read moreMovies With Friends — The Act of Killing
“The Act of Killing” has inspired so much passionate praise and such emotional reactions that I knew I had to see it, and I knew it was the kind of meaty movie I’d have to talk about afterward to make sense of it all. Hence, I’m launching a new feature...
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