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Matthew Carey

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YOU HAD TO BE THERE: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution... (2025) 100% EDIT ““You had to be there” is a phrase sometimes used with a snicker -- like, “I can’t be bothered to explain what you missed out on, loser.” Here, we’re all invited to participate. And it’s a joyous experience.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Marc by Sofia (2025) EDIT “An inevitable degree of self-regard is built into the film, but that can be forgiven as we marvel at what, over a period of decades, Marc Jacobs has made.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% EDIT “The riveting documentary Cover-Up, directed by Oscar winner Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, explores the extraordinary career of Hersh, who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest investigative journalists in American history.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Aug 29, 2025 Full Review The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025) 79% EDIT “At a moment when democracy is in retreat, Jarecki’s film The Six Billion Dollar Man raises the question of whether government by the people and for the people can function if citizens are denied information on what political leaders are doing.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 21, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% EDIT “An urgent, indispensable film for our times.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 17, 2025 Full Review Bono: Stories of Surrender (2025) 75% EDIT “Does the documentary give you something you can feel? Absolutely. Over the course of 87 minutes, Bono’s spellbinds with stories -- not to mention songs -- delivered in prose that makes him a worthy successor to Ireland’s exceptional writers.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 17, 2025 Full Review State of Silence (2024) EDIT “The film is built around the accounts of several investigative reporters who have been forced to go into hiding or even flee to the U.S. because of their work...” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 22, 2024 Full Review 2073 (2024) 49% EDIT “There’s a disturbing plausibility to director Asif Kapadia’s docudrama 2073.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Separated (2024) 97% EDIT “It’s an incisive account of how the policy was devised and implemented, and for what purpose. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Aug 29, 2024 Full Review Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) 98% EDIT “His death at age 53 leaves one to wonder what else he could have accomplished if fate had give him more time. But Jim Henson Idea Man stands as the definitive account of all he did achieve.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 20, 2024 Full Review Frank Capra: Mr. America (2023) EDIT “Far from being hagiographic, the documentary by Matthew Wells delves equally into a darker side to Capra’s work and of the man himself. This nuanced portrait offers a fresh perspective on one of the motion picture industry’s seminal figures.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2023) 88% EDIT “The radiant and compelling Pallenberg finally gets her due as a creative force in her own right, a woman of alluring beauty, intelligence, dysfunction, addiction, and yes, an important figure in the world of the Stones at their apex.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Superpower (2023) 47% EDIT “It serves a vital function, explaining the stakes of a war that some Americans may dismiss as something happening “over there” (just as many Americans did in the early days of World Wars I and II).” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Misha and the Wolves (2021) 86% EDIT “With its deft touch and compelling story, Misha and the Wolves should be a strong awards contender in the coming year and part of the Oscar conversation.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Bread & Roses (2023) 100% EDIT “Whether a documentary about women in Afghanistan can effect any change in the country seems too much to hope for. But at the very least, as Dr. Mohammadi urged, it will help ensure their ordeal is not forgotten.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Kiss the Future (2023) 100% EDIT “Kiss the Future succeeds on several levels -- as an important reminder of a terrible genocidal war that has been largely forgotten, and as a sort of time capsule.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Call Me Dancer (2023) 83% EDIT “Call Me Dancer reaches the heart through the archetypal quest of the film’s hero, and the charm of Manish Chauhan.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Youth (Spring) (2023) 86% EDIT “Wang’s intent is more subtly sociological -- Youth explores the connections and even culture, in a sense, that can develop among people thrown together in arduous circumstances.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Moonage Daydream (2022) 92% EDIT “[Moonage Daydream] does supreme justice to Bowie by presenting him above all as an artist intent on exploring not only popular music, but painting, video, writing, dance, and film and theater acting.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Occupied City (2023) 72% EDIT “This era calls for a new kind of film about that time -- a new way of preserving memory and cautioning us against a repetition of crimes against humanity driven by a racist ideology. Occupied City is that film.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Man in Black (2023) 100% EDIT “Man in Black constitutes one of the most unique “biographical” documentaries I’ve ever seen. It’s not an assemblage of archive clips and interviews... This is more like an evocative tour of a man’s mind.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023) 82% EDIT “Directors Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano don’t aim for a jukebox music experience, content to press play on one hit after another. Rather, they create a portrait of a woman and artist far more complex than has been appreciated.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 18, 2023 Full Review Four Daughters (2023) 96% EDIT “Four Daughters is riveting in large part because the charismatic Olfa galvanizes attention. Her dynamism cannot be obscured beneath a funereal head covering. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Nov 6, 2023 Full Review
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