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Errol Morris’ 2017 miniseries Wormwood chronicles the controversial events surrounding the death of Frank Olson, a…
Sep 22
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High-profile criminal cases can often be convoluted and confusing—then there are those that reach a truly elevated…
Oct 29 2019
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If Michael Moore is the Spielberg of documentary filmmaking—a showman whose name and face virtually everyone…
Sep 3 2019
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It’s time to get creative about the climate change crisis. It’s an “all hands on deck” situation at the moment,…
Aug 6 2019
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FX is keeping it real, in terms of content, as the network has announced five new docuseries and a feature-length…
Jul 31 2018
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Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and…
Dec 23 2017
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“You think that finding the answer to this is gonna restore the path of your own life. But how can it possibly do…
Dec 22 2017
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“Something has troubled me. I never recall having told Mrs. Olson anything that was flatly untrue. I did allow her…
Dec 22 2017
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Sure, true-crime TV is great, but we all know where entertainingly in-depth investigations of real-life deaths…
Dec 21 2017
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“It was what Kierkegaard would call almost a dizziness of freedom. You can ask this question, and you have to live…
Dec 20 2017
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“You’re losing control, Frank. Are you forgetting the premium placed on control?”—-Dr. Harold Abramson, Wormwood
Dec 19 2017
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“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” —John 8:32, King James Bible
Dec 18 2017
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“And the third angel sounded. And there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp. And it fell upon…
Dec 12 2017
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It seems absurd now, but back in 1988, when Errol Morris’ landmark true-crime documentary The Thin Blue Line was…
Dec 5 2017
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Nearly everything about the final episode of Nathan For You’s fourth season felt different, from its opening credits…
Jun 28 2017
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Over his nearly 40 years as a documentary filmmaker, Errol Morris has conducted in-depth, direct-to-camera…
Apr 20 2017
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Documentarian Errol Morris has something of an obsession with cameras, both as a tool of his trade and as a subject…
Jan 6 2017
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What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s film critics and readers to share their thoughts,…
Nov 30 2016
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If you’ve laughed at a movie or a TV program in the past 10 years—particularly if that movie or TV program has any…