Los Sures is a time-capsule of a New York City that’s long gone. Diego Echeverria’s documentary, comprised entirely of footage taken at the time and following a few select citizens, takes place in South Williamsburg in 1984. Once a neighborhood of ne …Read more

Like any documentary based on the past, The Man Who Saved The World has to decide whether to incorporate recreated elements and switch between them and the talking-heads segments, or stick exclusively to the latter. Director Peter Anthony decided to …Read more

In another filmmaker’s hands, Ashby would likely teeter between the two films it is – a reflective drama about a hitman attempting to right his wrongs before dying of cancer, and a light, lovely high-school coming-of-age comedy – and falter. In Tony …Read more

Cop Car takes place on the prairies and outskirts of a rural town in the heartland of America. There are only a handful of characters, and the stakes are kept high by focusing on how ignorant and naive the sweet, innocent kid protagonists are, and ho …Read more

That Sugar Film is a documentary in the vein of Super Size Me that explores the health effects of a particular food group. In this case the target is the sugar industry. Filmmaker Damon Gameau approaches this subject in a fairly pedestrian, tawdry ma …Read more

One can assume that the infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment has by now been studied and processed enough. It’s a template for freshman psychology courses, an introduction to what an institution and system of rules can wreak on the behavioral mod …Read more

Amy is a deeply personal story about a beautiful young girl and her lifelong relationship to music. This purity eventually gets tarnished, and we’re there to watch it all go awry. For those to whom Amy Winehouse was nothing more than an incredible vo …Read more

Carol Reed’s The Third Man is a seminal piece of 1940s cinema and Film Forum is showing a new 4K restoration from June 26 to July 9.  Directed by Reed, executive co-produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Orson Welles, there shouldn’t be too much …Read more

Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas is one of the greatest cinematic rides ever made. It’s the Italian-American gangster mythos edited together with rapid-fire precision and the elegance of a ballroom dance. The film is currently celebrating its 25th annive …Read more

Adapted from Jonathan Franzen’s 2010 article in The New Yorker about illegal bird poaching in Europe, Emptying the Skies approaches its subject from a very humanistic perspective. It’s a smart way to go, as some of these films can get bogged down by …Read more