AFI DOCS

My Name is Pauli Murray

By Norman Gidney | September 2021

NEW TO THEATERS! Who? That question is what this queer film critic posed when asked to review My Name is Pauli Murray.…

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NEW TO THEATERS! Who? That question is what this queer film critic posed when asked to review My Name is Pauli Murray. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in...

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NEW IN THEATERS! I have lived in New York City for about 13 years, though it's not my home state. That would be Georgia, a totally different animal....

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AFI DOCS 2021 REVIEW! The Lost Leonardo, directed by Andreas Koefoed, is about precisely what the title seems to be suggesting. In 2005, "sleeper hunter"...

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AFI DOCS 2021 REVIEW! Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax created North By Current as a memoir of sorts, documenting a moment in time with his Michigan-based...

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AFI DOCS 2021 REVIEW! This documentary could not have come at a better time. With the historic signing of making Juneteenth an official national holiday by...

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NEW TO VIRTUAL CINEMAS! I have covered a lot of political documentaries throughout my tenure here at Film Threat, so it should be no surprise to anyone who...

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Big Freedia is a bounce music legend in New Orleans. If you don't know what bounce music is, the Wikipedia entry says, "Bounce is characterized by a...

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AFI DOCS FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW. I didn't know much about Roy Cohn going into HBO Documentary's Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn and to be...

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