Movie Reviews

Film and television reviewed the way I’d want to read them — with a rating that means something, an honest accounting of what works and what doesn’t, and craft notes for writers who want to understand how the machinery operates.

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Man with a movie camera reviewMay 17, 2026

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Vertov's 1929 Soviet city-symphony documentary. The film that invented half the techniques modern documentary takes for granted. No intertitles, no narration.

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