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  • All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (2022)
    Review preview for All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

    The intimacies are staggering.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The story of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty often blamed for the US opioid epidemic.
  • Citizenfour (2014)
    Review preview for Citizenfour

    This is the first essential film about the post-Snowden era, made by one of the key figures who helped usher that era into being.

    Owen Van Spall · 5 out of 5
    Documentary about Edward Snowden.
  • My Country, My Country (2006)
    Review preview for My Country, My Country

    Powerful and moving.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The 2005 elections seen through the eyes of an ordinary Iraqi man.
  • The Oath (2010)
    Review preview for The Oath

    A low-key, but fascinating, documentary.

    James Benefield · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the US Supreme Court.

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