The Walrus

Steve Vineberg The Walrus Feb 29, 2016 Bellocchio is driven by the idea that the reality of violence can sometimes remove even the most fervent partisan to a sphere beyond ideologies. Go to Full Review Good Morning, Night (2003) 67% 71%

Steve Vineberg The Walrus Feb 29, 2016 Here [Spielberg] remains aware of his role as a popular interpreter, a dramatizer, and uses his resources as a filmmaker to convert a series of historic events into a gripping spy adventure, only to turn the genre on itself. Go to Full Review Munich (2005) 79% 83%

Adam Nayman The Walrus Feb 29, 2016 Western is languidly paced, at times to the point of inertia, but its shots of flat-lined Southern landscapes stretching on past the horizon are painterly enough to warrant your patience. Go to Full Review Western (2015) 91% 64%

Adam Nayman The Walrus Feb 29, 2016 A documentary that goes beyond the old stranger-than-fiction cliché into the realm of the genuinely perplexing. Go to Full Review The Wolfpack (2015) 87% 68%

Adam Nayman The Walrus Feb 29, 2016 Few non-fiction films pack the affective punch of The Nightmare, which seeks to turn viewers into mirror images of its terror-stricken subjects. Go to Full Review The Nightmare (2015) 67% 43%

Adam Nayman The Walrus Feb 29, 2016 There are plenty of posthumous profile pieces, of course, but Listen to Me Marlon is unique in that the dearly departed is the only one permitted to speak. It's more of a séance than a documentary. Go to Full Review Listen to Me Marlon (2015) 95% 88%

Adam Nayman The Walrus Feb 29, 2016 Montage of Heck isn't an investigation into its subject's death so much as an homage to his creativity and life force -- it's tender and sad. Go to Full Review Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) 97% 81%

Adam Nayman The Walrus Jan 2, 2016 Being Canadian reifies stereotypes under the guise of deconstructing them, and panders to the pernicious idea of celebrity authority (with a few experts and plucked-from-the-crowd civilians sprinkled in for good measure). Go to Full Review Being Canadian (2015) 25% 45%

Adam Nayman The Walrus Jan 2, 2016 American Sniper cannot be reduced to simple pro- or anti-war labels. Go to Full Review American Sniper (2014) 71% 84%

Adam Nayman The Walrus Dec 30, 2015 Sissako, who always has balanced his social conscience with a stridently comic sensibility, frames the Islamists as figures of fear, but also of mockery. Go to Full Review Timbuktu (2014) 98% 77%