Hyperallergic

Lisa Yin Zhang Hyperallergic Oct 28, 2026 "I Want Your Sex" is a caricature of the art world more than an actually incisive critique, but it’s funner that way. Go to Full Review I Want Your Sex (2026) 91% - -

Rebecca Schiffman Hyperallergic Oct 28, 2026 Fielder makes documentation part of the story. But his trick is to make us believe he is investigating his subjects alongside us, even as his presence shapes what we see. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Oct 8, 2025 In the past, I’ve written that Hujar’s portraits capture the “pedestrian peculiar, or the quotidian queer.” Sachs’s film equally achieves this in his own contemplative visual language. Go to Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 91% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Sep 24, 2025 “Naked Ambition” is compelling when it examines how [Bunny] Yeager’s ebullient photographic approach to female nudity was matched by her rejection of midcentury conservatism. Go to Full Review Naked Ambition (2023) 70% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Sep 19, 2025 At best, “Paint Me a Road” indicts the evil of mass incarceration that, for more than half a century, has intensified racial and economic inequalities across the country. At worst, the film indulges in false equivalences between art and human life. Go to Full Review Paint Me a Road Out of Here (2024) - - - -

Dan Schindel Hyperallergic Sep 19, 2025 One of a new documentary’s most intriguing strands is the way that brand seemed to eclipse the man, according to his own family. Go to Full Review Art for Everybody (2023) 100% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Sep 19, 2025 For those unfamiliar with Monk (this critic included), “Monk in Pieces” serves as an apt corrective, a vibrant mosaic of her life and work that both honors her prolific output and celebrates her singular vision. Go to Full Review Monk in Pieces (2025) 92% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Sep 19, 2025 Andres Veiel’s documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows that aesthetics and politics are inextricably linked, and that no image is innocent when wielded by the state. Go to Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% - -

Dan Schindel Hyperallergic Jan 23, 2025 "Suburban Fury" sits with Sara Jane Moore to learn how the politics and culture of the 1970s drove her toward Gerald Ford with a gun in her hand. Go to Full Review Suburban Fury (2024) 100% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Jan 23, 2025 Directors Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum provide less an in-depth biography of the trailblazer’s life than a roving chronicle of her impact on the last 100-plus years of creative culture. Go to Full Review Obsessed with Light (2023) - - - -

Dan Schindel Hyperallergic Jan 23, 2025 Historically, cinema has invoked the architectural movement as an easy shorthand for villainy. In The Brutalist, though, it embodies a proletarian dream. Go to Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Nov 11, 2024 "... [makes US viewers] reckon with the extent to which American ignorance — and indifference — to the conflict is a side effect of ’winning’ the Cold War." Go to Full Review My Sweet Land (2024) 100% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Nov 11, 2024 "... The women’s stories alert us to how fragile so many homelands continue to be ... [and] bring Artsakh’s history to the attention of the United States and other audiences with little or no knowledge of this embattled territory." Go to Full Review There Was, There Was Not (2024) 100% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Oct 21, 2024 Merging the filmmaking process with snippets of the protagonist's life and words, "The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire" blurs distinctions between past and present. Go to Full Review The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024) 87% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Oct 21, 2024 Immersive, beguiling, and productively unsettling, "Onlookers" confronts the power of the wealthy, predominantly White and Western tourist gaze to intrude on and warp its surroundings. Go to Full Review Onlookers (2023) 79% - -

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Oct 21, 2024 Inviting viewers to consider our own histories of misogyny — whether conscious or unwitting, expressed or internalized — "Four Daughters" blurs the distance between the personal and cultural, the individual and the systemic. Go to Full Review Four Daughters (2023) 96% 86%

Eileen G'Sell Hyperallergic Oct 21, 2024 Fans of Torres’s whimsical comedy will find much to love in his directorial debut, which takes a fantastical approach to depicting the very real trials of immigration and creative work. Go to Full Review Problemista (2023) 85% - -

Dan Schindel Hyperallergic Oct 17, 2024 "Intercepted" posits a twinned dialectic between sound and image and between invader and invaded. Go to Full Review Intercepted (2024) 100% - -

Dan Schindel Hyperallergic Oct 17, 2024 “Homecoming” It skillfully compresses the five years of the “Youth” trilogy’s shoot, replicating the way that long hours at work and the respite of home can turn into a blur over time. Go to Full Review Youth (Homecoming) (2024) 94% - -

Dan Schindel Hyperallergic Oct 17, 2024 “Hard Times” is the “Youth” trilogy’s odd duck. Though there are no shared characters between the films, it is structurally identical to “Spring” … The heavy stylistic overlap between the two films makes “Hard Times” feel redundant.  Go to Full Review Youth (Hard Times) (2024) 94% - -