Documentaries
The woman who built New York's 'herstory' archive recalls love and hate
Joan Nestle emerged from the activism of the '60s determined that New York's nascent lesbian culture should be honoured with an archive. So she made one.
- by Stephen A Russell
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Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus' new comedy quickly goes downhill
Our critics reviewed four movies being released this week. Which ones are worth the price of a ticket?
- by Jake Wilson, Sandra Hall and Paul Byrnes
Movies
Reviled ex-Russian oligarch, Citizen K, says he knows Putin's worst fear
For Russian democrats, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's refusal to give way to fear has made him a hero.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Review
Sweet spot between drama and truth
Documentary has never been pure, but that doesn't mean its practitioners ever stop trying to convince us otherwise.
- by Paul Byrnes
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Nothing left off the table in new doco about psychedelic drugs
A controversial Canadian documentary uses home-grown experiments to explore how psychedelic drugs could help depression.
- by Jake Wilson
Review
You don't have to like Country Music to enjoy this docuseries
Ken Burns turns his comprehensive lens on the history and development of country music.
- by Kylie Northover
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Bob Brown takes the gloves off to give 'unruly mob' a lashing
The former Greens leader speaks his mind in a new documentary about the Stop Adani convoy to north Queensland last year.
- by Karl Quinn
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Birds of Prey is over-complicated but Margot Robbie aces her role
Our critics reviewed five movies released this week. Which ones are worth the price of a ticket?
- by Sandra Hall, Jake Wilson and Paul Byrnes
Review
Syria film For Sama a poignant and bloody account of destruction
Filmed by a citizen journalist, this documentary is a terrifying day-by-day re-creation of what it was like to live at the bloody core of the Syrian war.
- by Sandra Hall
Movies
'It was important': Finding beauty among the horror of Syria's civil war
Journalist Waad al-Kateab chronicled her life through five years of the uprising in the Syrian city of Aleppo, while falling in love, getting married and giving birth to her daughter.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Arts
'Weirdo' Theroux takes stage for intimate confession
Documentary maker Louis Theroux says the secret of his success has been getting closely involved with his subjects.
- by Kylie McLaughlin