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Bellflower 2011 Writer-director-actor Evan Glodell's testosterone-fueled fever-dream indie Bellflower impresses less for its screeching take on extended adolescent fury than for its own macho, wacko, pedal-to-metal embodiment of same. full review
GasLand 2010 With its jolting images of flammable tap water and chemically burned pets, New York theater-director-turned-documentarian Josh Fox's Sundance-feted shocker makes an irrefutable case against U.S. corporate "fracking." full review
Vincere 2009 A movie whose audacious editing fully captures the hot and heavy relationships between past and present, sex and politics, reality and, yes, cinema. full review
The Devil Came on Horseback 2007 Devil ponders the optimism/pessimism = apathy/x equation as honestly and studiously as any doc I've ever seen. full review
Freedom Writers 2007 Our eager-beaver heroine suffers the kids' sarcasm, fails to earn their respect by bringing in a Tupac tape, then wins them over in a crucial scene that, fact-based or not, rings as false as anything in Dangerous Minds. full review
The Outsider 2005 Among the great docs about moviemaking. full review
I Like Killing Flies 2003 As directed in aptly unfussy fashion by music- video vet Matt Mahurin, the movie itself is a curiously tasty dish, one that could leave even a vegan with a burning desire to sample Shopsin's lamb chops. full review

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