Documentaries

What Monica Lewinsky’s New Documentary on Public Shaming Gets Wrong

Lili Loofbourow

Oct 20, 2021 5:45 AM

Chappelle’s 180-Quadruple-Down Means We All Lose

Culture Gabfest

Oct 20, 2021 5:05 AM

Velvet Underground Director Todd Haynes on the Interview That Made Him Cry

Sam Adams

Oct 16, 2021 9:00 AM

Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground Documentary Will Change the Way You Think About the Band

Carl Wilson

Oct 15, 2021 4:37 PM

A New Documentary Says Brittany Murphy Was the Victim of a Grift

Ilana Kaplan

Oct 14, 2021 5:50 AM

The Breakout Star of LuLaRich on Her Viral Fame and Loving White People “to Death”

Rachelle Hampton

Oct 01, 2021 11:09 AM

The Restless, Renaissance Genius of Pauli Murray

Dahlia Lithwick

Aug 31, 2021 9:51 AM

Spike Lee Did the Right Thing

Jeremy Stahl

Aug 26, 2021 6:54 PM

Spike Lee Has Fallen Down the 9/11 Truther Rabbit Hole

Jeremy Stahl

Aug 24, 2021 4:48 PM

Is Criticism of True Crime Sexist?

The Waves

Aug 19, 2021 6:00 AM

White Lotus is a Sendup of the 1 Percent

Culture Gabfest

July 28, 2021 5:05 AM

The Director of HBO’s Woodstock ’99 Documentary on Why It All Went So Wrong

Marissa Martinelli

July 27, 2021 6:03 PM

Roadrunner Is a Moving Portrait of an Artist’s Struggles

Culture Gabfest

July 21, 2021 5:05 AM

Anthony Bourdain’s Voice Isn’t the Only Thing the New Documentary Faked

Marissa Martinelli

July 20, 2021 5:40 PM

Why Faking Anthony Bourdain’s Voice Feels So Weird, Even to Other Documentarians

Sam Adams

July 20, 2021 5:34 PM

The Anthony Bourdain Doc Is No Hagiography

Dana Stevens

July 13, 2021 11:03 AM

Summer of Soul Is an Electrifying Rebuttal to the Worship of Woodstock

Jack Hamilton

July 02, 2021 5:45 AM

A New Civil War Documentary Shows the Limits of Letting Everyone Talk

Rebecca Onion

June 18, 2021 1:11 PM

Who Benefits From Watching Black Trauma on Screen?

Jasmine M. Ellis

May 02, 2021 5:45 AM

What’s So Special About Netflix’s New True Crime Hit?

Marissa Martinelli

April 15, 2021 7:16 PM

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