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  • American Symphony (2023)
    Review preview for American Symphony

    Batiste and Jaouad are intensely grounded – they have to be – and as such, their humour and their joy have greater weight.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    In 2022, musician Jon Batiste finds himself the most celebrated artist of the year and embarks on composing an original symphony. The year grows more complicated when his life partner, best-selling author Suleika Jaouad, learns that her long-dormant cancer has returned.
  • Cartel Land (2015)
    Review preview for Cartel Land

    One person's armed vigilante is another person's guardian angel and the border between these two ideas is wafer thin and easily crossed as Matthew Heineman's beautifully shot and probing documentary shows.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Vigilantes on both sides of the Mexican Border with the US take on the drug cartels.
  • City Of Ghosts (2017)
    Review preview for City Of Ghosts

    Heineman's film inevitably includes some tough-to-watch footage but he recognises the power in not always showing death.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The citizen journalists risking their lives to report on atrocities within in Syria.
  • The First Wave (2021)
    Review preview for The First Wave

    Heineman is careful not to bludgeon viewers with the horror of it all.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Documentary consideration of how NYC's emergency workers dealt with the first wave of the pandemic.
  • A Private War (2018)
    Review preview for A Private War

    Heineman’s docu-style fits perfectly into the look and sound of things.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Biopic of The Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin while on assignment in Syria.

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