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Make It Real

Observe and Report

By Eric Hynes
May 1, 2020
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Viewing Booth holds up a mirror to the insidious spiral of bad faith in a media-saturated age

Embracing Entropy

By Eric Hynes
March 4, 2020
Complexity is truth in three unreleased films that our nonfiction critic ranks among the year’s best

Make It Real: We the Living

By Eric Hynes
March 2, 2020
Death becomes a creative force in three Sundance films that dance at its edge

Do You Hear What I Hear?

By Eric Hynes
November 13, 2019
Through audio artistry, nonfiction filmmakers get into your head to shape perceptions of both sonic and visual spaces

Make It Real: Double Shifts

By Eric Hynes
August 29, 2019
With American Factory, Julia Reichert caps four decades of clocking in with labor by adding the view from the top

Interview: Gu Xiaogang

By Eric Hynes
July 16, 2019
The first-time filmmaker’s Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains has a wide scope, yet feels minutely observed

Make It Real: Mistaken Identity

By Eric Hynes
May 1, 2019
Three recent portraits of women achieve the sadly rare art of leaving their complexity intact

The All-Seeing Eye

By Eric Hynes
March 1, 2019
In Carlos Reygadas’s autobiographically drawn Our Time, the camera captures how fiction lives in the real world

Make It Real: Shots Heard Round the World

By Eric Hynes
January 2, 2019
Our nonfiction critic remembers the moments in 2018’s movies that live on

Make It Real: The Big Game

By Eric Hynes
November 1, 2018
The elder statesmen of documentary are pouncing upon our dire moment, but to what end?