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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography Movie Review: My Work Is About Affection

Errol Morris’ The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography is a small, unusually kind film from a director better known for ...
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Separated Movie Review: Harm to the Children Was Part of the Point

Errol Morris continues his streak of astonishingly edge-of-your-seat storytelling and filmmaking in his latest documentary, Separated, based on the book ...
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American Dharma Movie Review: Duty, Fate, and Destiny

American Dharma is a documentary film in which director Errol Morris interviews Steve Bannon, who, among many other roles, was ...
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Standard Operating Procedure Movie Review: We Just Did What We Were Told

Errol Morris’ 2008 documentary Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) concerns itself with the photos uncovered at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004 ...
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The Fog of War Blu-ray Review: Robert McNamara Tells All

Although I’ve never held a role in politics, nor do I intend to, there’s no doubt that they come with ...
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AFI Fest 2020 Review: My Psychedelic Love Story

(L-R): Timothy Leary and Joanna Harcourt-Smith in MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY. Photo Credit: Joanna Harcourt-Smith/Courtesy of SHOWTIME. My Psychedelic Love ...
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Tabloid Movie Review: The Legend May Be as Insane as the Truth

Written by Kristen Lopez Director Errol Morris has interviewed serious subjects like Robert S. MacNamara and delved deep into harsh ...
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The Fog of War Movie Review: Hindsight Is 20/20

Robert S. McNamara served from 1961 to 1968 as the Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon ...
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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Movie Review: Visually Captivating

What happens when a simple man asks simple questions that require complex answers that he cannot understand? This is what ...
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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control Movie Review: Skewed Look at Human Behavior

The title might throw a viewer off - 'Out of Control'. A documentary about things being out of control sounds ...
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A Brief History of Time Criterion Collection Review: A Quirky, Idiosyncratic Tribute

Everyone knows the story of Stephen Hawking, the iconic physicist, cosmologist, author, and director of research. They also know that ...
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The Thin Blue Line Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Paradigm Shift

Rarely do you watch a film and actually pinpoint where a genre actually changes. You watch Clerks or Pulp Fiction ...
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Gates of Heaven / Vernon, Florida Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Loving the Absurd

“I love the absurd,” says Errol Morris in one of the extras on the new Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition of ...
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The Unknown Known Movie Review: Rumsfeld’s Snowflakes

Filmmaker Errol Morris has said of his interview with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that it was one ...
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