This year’s nominees tackle such difficult subjects as homelessness and refugees — and the joys of a historic female basketball player.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
All in Documentary
This year’s nominees tackle such difficult subjects as homelessness and refugees — and the joys of a historic female basketball player.
Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animation/documentary hybrid puts a creative spin on an already unusual refugee saga.
Spike Lee thoroughly explores his hometown’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and 9/11 in this extraordinary documentary epic.
Reviews of Pig, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, Joe Bell, and Val.
Anthony Bourdain is chronicled, warts and all, in Morgan Neville’s energetic, informative documentary.
Edgar Wright’s debut documentary skillfully introduces the band Sparks to the masses.
Ahmir-Khalib “Questlove” Thompson’s loving documentary on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival is pure joy.
Vocal imitations by Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto can’t compare with the real-life authors in this engaging documentary.
This visually sumptuous and poetic portrait of elderly men who hunt for the culinary delicacy with trained dogs captures a disappearing quirk of Northern Italian culture.
Traylor, a former slave, created an artistic legacy rediscovered in the 1980s by both the art world and the artist’s many descendants.
The Asheville Movie Guys dissect this year’s non-fiction finalists.
This documentary about Pope Francis elucidates his struggle to bend the world to goodness in areas from climate to tolerance — and admits few flaws.
This doc addresses a central Asheville aesthetic — the history of the Arts + Crafts movement — and includes a local expert.
This slice-of-street-life documentary follows a stray dog around Istanbul, where she bonds with some homeless teenage Syrian refugees.
The documentary on the Grammy-winning artist provides an in-depth look at a budding musical talent.
This visually creative doc introduces the philosophers and pick-up artists who work behind counters at a Brazilian supermarket.
Davy Rothbart’s innovative, heartbreaking documentary chronicles 20 years in the life of a Washington, D.C. family.
Garin Hovannisian’s lean documentary smartly chronicles System of a Down’s musical history and ongoing political legacy.
Do we need another Ginsburg documentary so soon after “RBG”? Our ruling is that yes, yes we do.
