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Charlie Phillips

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Border South (2019) 4/5 EDIT “Pastrana has made a caring documentary with humanity. We receive the message strongly that these are ordinary people expected to do extraordinary things to live like the rest of us.” – Guardian Jun 10, 2019 Full Review Mother (2019) 92% 5/5 EDIT “These subjects have been the focus of documentaries before but rarely in this combination and with such an unflinching resolve to keep filming in uncomfortable moments.” – Guardian Jun 10, 2019 Full Review Female Human Animal (2018) 90% EDIT “It's trying something truly bizarre that punctures the pretentiousness of the art world while also, of course, being rather pretentious - and it's a triumph.” – Observer (UK) Feb 26, 2019 Full Review What Is Democracy? (2018) 96% 4/5 EDIT “An extended and good-looking essay, it serves as a sharp reminder to pay attention to politics and to remember that the personal and the local are political.” – Guardian Jun 11, 2018 Full Review A Woman Captured (2017) 89% 5/5 EDIT “Shows, in almost full view, the exhaustion of being entrapped as a slave and what it takes to get out of it.” – Guardian Jun 9, 2018 Full Review A Northern Soul (2018) 88% 4/5 EDIT “A Northern Soul is a great work of radical empathy, in which the economic difficulties of the city and the contradictions of regeneration through culture are visible alongside a testament to the charm and strength of personality of the city's residents.” – Guardian Jun 9, 2018 Full Review Shirkers (2018) 99% 5/5 EDIT “But this is so much more than a film about a film, it's about young women breaking the rules set in a conservative country - the process of doing that was a lot more powerful than finishing the actual film.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2018 Full Review Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018) 90% 4/5 EDIT “The film comes from a place of deep admiration for MIA, but unlike more fawning biographies, it makes a convincing case that this admiration is well earned.” – Guardian Jan 24, 2018 Full Review Our New President (2018) 67% 4/5 EDIT “An irrational documentary for irrational times.” – Guardian Jan 22, 2018 Full Review Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018) 94% 3/5 EDIT “This narrative is at its best when we hear direct from Williams, in intimate interview recordings in which he reflects back on life with seriousness that might surprise fans who knew him only as a manic clown.” – Guardian Jan 22, 2018 Full Review City of Ghosts (2017) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Heineman may have made the definitive contemporary documentary about the tragedy of Syria, as well as an epoch-defining piece on modern media tactics.” – Guardian Jan 27, 2017 Full Review Strong Island (2017) 100% 5/5 EDIT “The documentary won't bring William Ford back, and it may give Yance Ford some catharsis, but more importantly it could and should lead to greater justice and empowerment.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2017 Full Review Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press (2017) 91% 3/5 EDIT “For those who haven't noticed their freedom of speech ebbing away, this film is certainly an important warning, but they should probably watch some more news videos and read some more papers.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2017 Full Review Last Men in Aleppo (2017) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Last Men in Aleppo is one of the most difficult documentaries you'll see this year.” – Guardian Jan 24, 2017 Full Review Casting JonBenĂ©t (2017) 81% 5/5 EDIT “Is it a crime documentary? A satire of prurient crime documentaries? A drama? A piece of avant garde theatre? Casting JonBent is all of these, and a brilliant original in multiple dimensions.” – Guardian Jan 24, 2017 Full Review The Workers Cup (2017) 82% 4/5 EDIT “A brave and engrossing look at the 2015 football tournament from the perspective of the stadium construction workers.” – Guardian Jan 21, 2017 Full Review Generation Revolution (2016) 3/5 EDIT “The passion and idealism oozes off the screen, even if it's ultimately a rather sad story.” – Guardian Jun 17, 2016 Full Review The Russian Woodpecker (2015) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Gracia succeeds brilliantly in delivering a chilling warning about where Putin and his spooks might go next, by giving Fedor full licence to act the biblical prophet.” – Guardian Jan 30, 2015 Full Review
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