LOS ANGELES — When Craig Renaud’s big brother and collaborator in covering years of wars and humanitarian crises Brent Renaud was killed by Russian forces firing on his…
Read more Oscar run is bittersweet for brother and friend who made film after death of journalist Brent RenaudIt was a battle of the holdovers at the North American box office this weekend, with the family friendly film “GOAT” edging out the R-rated “Wuthering Heights.” Sony…
Read more It’s a quiet box office weekend as ‘GOAT’ edges ‘Wuthering Heights’When Ajike Owens was alive, she dreamed of becoming a famous entrepreneur. “You laugh at me,” she’d tell her mother, Pam Dias, “but one day the whole world’s…
Read more In Oscar-Nominated Documentary ‘The Perfect Neighbor,’ Police Catch—But Never Stop—a KillerHis work depended on access. He filmed in hospital rooms where patients and families faced incommensurable agonies with the aid of the medical staff (“Near Death”); he filmed…
Read more Why Frederick Wiseman Was the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker EverNEW YORK — Hollywood largely ceded attention to football over a slow box-office weekend, with the survival thriller “Send Help” repeating as No. 1 in ticket sales and…
Read more ‘Melania’ falls, ‘Send Help’ holds steady at No. 1 on quiet weekend in theatersDocumentaries can be many things. They can be diaries, profiles, calls to action, exposés, investigations, and everything in between. While many of us fall in love with film…
Read more Best Documentaries on Tubi (February 2026)Michael Jackson: The Trial has landed on Channel 4 and, once again, the spotlight is firmly on the King of Pop and his most famous home. And viewers…
Read more The truth about Neverland as Michael Jackson is shown there with Gavin Arvizo in C4 documentaryMelania, Brett Ratner’s Melania Trump movie, is a purportedly serious film that plays like a mockumentary. If you were making a movie that parodied the current first lady…
Read more Melania Movie Review: All the Money In the World Can’t Make Good PropagandaIn August of 2023, Zohran Mamdani launched his reëlection campaign for State Assembly at Sac’s Place, a pizza place in Astoria. Beneath bistro lights strung above the restaurant’s…
Read more Bringing Zohran Mamdani to the Big ScreenThe documentary often gets a bad rap. Maybe you watched a few boring (or prescriptive) ones in school, in which talking heads drone on about what you ought…
Read more The Best Documentaries of 2025“It feels like the Eras Tour was a lifetime within my life,” Taylor Swift said earlier this week at an intimate New York City screening of the first…
Read more Watching Taylor Swift’s ‘End of an Era’ Docuseries With Taylor SwiftPhoto: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Michelle Obama had a kitchen garden, Nancy Reagan had “Just Say No.” Melania Trump has a vanity shingle. The FLOTUS announced her new production…
Read more Melania Trump Announces New Production CompanyBecause Lafferty died in 2016, Shackleton worked with the late officer’s family to secure the rights to his fairly obscure book. The filmmaker was in the Bay Area,…
Read more ‘Zodiac Killer Project’ Reveals True Crime’s Dirty SecretsBong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” a new batch of “Stranger Things’” final season and Kevin Hart debuting a new comedy special on Netflix are some of the new…
Read more What to Stream: ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Mickey 17,’ Kevin Hart and ‘A Grand Ole Opry Christmas’Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” a new batch of “Stranger Things’” final season and Kevin Hart debuting a new comedy special on Netflix are some of the new…
Read more What to Stream: ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Mickey 17,’ Kevin Hart and ‘A Grand Ole Opry Christmas’A total of 201 documentary features, 86 international features and 35 animated features are eligible for Oscar recognition this season in the best documentary feature, best international feature…
Read more Oscars: Academy Reveals Full Lists of Qualifying Documentary, International and Animated FeaturesThe new Netflix documentary Selena y Los Dinos tells an inspirational story of a hard-working family band’s ascent from playing tiny restaurant back rooms to selling out the…
Read more If Selena Quintanilla Had Lived Past 23, What Might She Be Doing Now?Ted Danson’s “A Man on the Inside” returning to Netflix for its second season and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo belting out the “Wicked: For Good” soundtrack are…
Read more What to Stream: ‘Wicked: For Good’ soundtrack, Ted Danson, ‘The Bad Guys 2’ and Black cowboysTed Danson’s “A Man on the Inside” returning to Netflix for its second season and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo belting out the “Wicked: For Good” soundtrack are…
Read more What to Stream: ‘Wicked: For Good’ soundtrack, Ted Danson, ‘The Bad Guys 2’ and Black cowboys“So it goes ‘New Year’s Day’ verse and chorus, ‘Manuscript’ bridge into ‘Long Live’ bridge, into the down verse of ‘Long Live,’ into ‘Hold on to the memories,…
Read more In Taylor Swift’s ‘End of an Era’ Trailer, Mama Swift Says What We’re All Thinking: “That’s Complicated”