Seven Great Documentaries

Seven Great Documentaries

Here are seven documentaries from this year I heartily recommend to you, with subjects including Bill Russell, Albert Brooks, Yogi Berra, and why we should look again at nuclear power.

Worst Movies Of 2023

Worst Movies Of 2023

It can be fun ripping really bad movies to shreds, but I hate that I wasted so much time watching these, the ten I most disliked in the last twelve months.

Best Movies Of 2023

Best Movies Of 2023

Here’s my list of the ten movies that impressed me most in the last twelve months, regardless of platform. Most of them did not earn big numbers at the box office, but they all put a smile on my face.

“American Fiction”

“American Fiction”

Here’s my rave review of a clever, funny new movie about a frustrated Black author fed up with the way the publishing world treats people who look like him.

“Maestro”

“Maestro”

Here’s my review of Bradley Cooper’s biopic of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein and his longtime marriage to his wife, Felicia.

“Immediate Family”

“Immediate Family”

If you bought rock albums during the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s, you often saw the names of four extraordinary musicians on the back covers. Here’s my review of a new documentary about them.