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Daniel Fienberg

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Public Access (2026) EDIT “There are good and righteous thoughts in Public Access and I think the points it wants to make get through if you work at it, but man the journey to get there is chaotic.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (2026) EDIT “The documentary has one serious problem that won’t bother many viewers and doesn’t fully detract from a portrait that blends the candid, silly, uncomfortable, sad and triumphant, just like Bamford herself.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 23, 2026 Full Review The Disciple (2026) EDIT “It’s a challenging combination of genres, one that Natasegara balances fairly well.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 23, 2026 Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 100% EDIT “I doubt any movie, especially not any documentary, will make me laugh harder this year, and many of its emotional grace notes land fully. Even with my high expectations, The History of Concrete is a small triumph.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 23, 2026 Full Review I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025) 92% EDIT “Zenovich does a better job of acknowledging contradictions in complicated human behavior than reckoning with what those contradictions mean... Still, there are worthwhile conversations that "I’m Chevy Chase" might allow viewers to have.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Breakdown: 1975 (2025) 77% EDIT “It's truly an odd documentary -- one likely to be enticing for viewers with a casual interest in history or filmmaking, but infuriating for anybody craving even intermediate instruction.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Endless Cookie (2025) 90% EDIT “A messy, disjointed and appealingly affectionate look at relationships and a location we’re rarely exposed to, animated or otherwise.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 16, 2025 Full Review The New Yorker at 100 (2025) 64% EDIT “ The New Yorker at 100 is a commercial for The New Yorker and it isn’t masquerading as anything else. But at that point, it should at least be a commercial for the magazine that befits the voice, aesthetic and ethos of the magazine in a meaningful way. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher (2025) EDIT “Interestingly, as the documentary goes from the parts of Asher’s biography that might be interpreted as luck-driven to the chapters in which his genius is most obvious, it becomes less entertaining, albeit never unentertaining. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter (2025) 64% EDIT “What I liked most about Stop the Insanity is what’s likely to make it a tough sell to audiences who have devoured films about so many of her former contemporaries. It doesn’t say if Powter, as a guru, was right or wrong. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Being Eddie (2025) 75% EDIT “Being Eddie isn’t a great piece of documentary filmmaking, nor does its DNA include an iota of journalism. What it is, though, is consummately polished and affectionate.” – The Hollywood Reporter Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025) 93% EDIT “I think there’s a perfectly fair reading of Nothing Is Lost... that the couple deserved an exploratory showcase that isn’t 50 percent about their son’s own neuroses. But ultimately I think there’s sadness and humor to Ben Stiller’s approach.” – The Hollywood Reporter Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025) 97% EDIT “The opportunity here is so unique and perhaps Linus O’Brien could have done a little bit more with it... But this is a tidy and sincerely admiring overview.” – The Hollywood Reporter Oct 3, 2025 Full Review The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue (2025) 81% EDIT “There’s a story worth telling here, a snapshot within a sprawling tragedy, but Avrich can’t make a bigger statement that doesn’t feel oversimplified.” – The Hollywood Reporter Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Lost in the Jungle (2025) 92% EDIT “A solid telling of a story that’s hard to make anything other than compelling.” – The Hollywood Reporter Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything (2025) 100% EDIT “It’s a simple and respectful documentary that, had it come out a month after Walters’ death, would have made its point decently. It’s in taking that step back and using the distance afforded by time for something more substantive that it falls short.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 13, 2025 Full Review Surviving Ohio State (2025) 100% EDIT “It may not be as sensational and buzzy as bringing down a major university or a sitting congressman, but since Surviving Ohio State won’t do either thing, it’s worth praising the potency of what it does well.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 11, 2025 Full Review Andy Kaufman Is Me (2025) EDIT “Andy Kaufman Is Me, which at least has a distinctive visual approach that Kaufman probably would have appreciated, is narrowly the better of the two fine documentaries. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 10, 2025 Full Review An Eye for an Eye (2025) EDIT “As gripping as this life-and-death conceit is, it’s hard not to watch An Eye for an Eye and ponder versions that might have been more expansive.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 9, 2025 Full Review Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (2024) 100% EDIT “Overall, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted is good for a few laughs, possibly some tears and a level of reflection that is at least adjacent to profundity.” – The Hollywood Reporter May 7, 2025 Full Review The Python Hunt (2025) EDIT “The storylines in The Python Hunt prove a little bit too squirmy and erratic for the documentary to come into a focus in a wholly satisfying way. But it’s still a wild and generally empathetic journey into the swamp of the American soul.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Starman (2025) EDIT “It’s a thesis that’s hard to sensationalize and neither Stone nor Lee try to. Starman just wants you to briefly get caught up in considering it.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 18, 2025 Full Review The Age of Disclosure (2025) 27% EDIT “My problem with The Age of Disclosure isn’t the lack of opposing voices. It’s that there couldn’t be experts debunking anything here. Nothing is proven, and thus nothing can be refuted. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 10, 2025 Full Review I'm Carl Lewis! (2025) 100% EDIT “This doesn’t offer as full an overhaul for Lewis, but it’s effective in underlining his athletic greatness.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 9, 2025 Full Review Chaos: The Manson Murders (2025) 56% EDIT “A story about the need for stories when it comes to explaining the unexplainable. If you come away thinking Morris failed, that probably means he succeeded, which I find compelling as an idea if not always in this execution.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 7, 2025 Full Review
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