Category: Documentary
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The AI Doc: It’s the End of the World As We Know It
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell As I’ve expanded my film history knowledge, I’ve learned that there was a bygone time when theatrical releases for documentaries were commonplace. What happened? I mean, I know what happened, but we should get back to that. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist may be as good a place as any…
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Little Gold Man Watch — My Thoughts on the 2026 Oscars Documentary Short Film Nominees
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. If you’re a frequent reader of Nate at the Movies, you know that I’ve been on my second-ever Oscars Death Race over the last month-plus. That race is coming to a close pretty quickly here, with just a few weeks until the Oscars, and now with all five Documentary Short Film nominees in the rearview, I can finally share my thoughts on them with you! I…
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert: An Electric Return to the Big Screen
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Baz Luhrmann Even with my various film checklists to work on, from Star Wars and Marvel to the Oscars Death Race, this weekend was still looking pretty bare. I didn’t care about Scream 7, so instead I took a swing on EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which had been getting good enough reviews for me to consider. I remember enjoying Elvis back in 2022, and if this doc…
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Diane Warren: Relentless: Chasing the Oscar At All Costs
Diane Warren: Relentless (2024) Bess Kargman After a weekend of new releases, I got back on the Oscars Death Race grind, and I’m actually pretty close to the end already. Before tonight, I only had five feature films left, and now that number is just four! I wasn’t exactly looking forward to Diane Warren: Relentless, but of the three films that I could watch from home, it was the shortest, so…
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Disneyland Handcrafted: Can I Get a Season Pass for a Documentary?
Disneyland Handcrafted (2026) Leslie Iwerks I know I’ve lambasted my recent documentary binging in preparation for the Oscars, so it doesn’t make sense that I’d willingly subject myself to yet another documentary, but when it’s about Disney, I’m all Mickey Mouse ears. The allure of colorized 50s footage of Disneyland was enough to get me to sit down for Disneyland Handcrafted two and a half hours before Super Bowl LX, and while…
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Viva Verdi!: One of These Noms is Not Like the Other
Viva Verdi! (2024) Yvonne Russo When the Oscar nominations came out last week, I was shocked to not see either original song from Wicked: For Good on there. I was even more shocked to see a song that I had never heard of from a film I had never heard of. I paid a pretty penny—1,500 of them, to be exact—to sit through Viva Verdi! today, and though I’m an admirer of Verdi (we…
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Come See Me in the Good Light: Ending on a Make
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) Ryan White My fingers are crossed that today’s my last snow day so I can go back to school tomorrow, but that snow just isn’t melting. I’ve been grateful, though, for the time I’ve had to put a significant dent in my Oscars Death Race, which continued today with Come See Me in the Good Light, a documentary with…
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The Perfect Neighbor: Rage Against the Political Machine
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Perfect Neighbor (2025) Geeta Gandbhir With Oscars nominations being announced this morning, my second ever Oscars Death Race attempt has begun! In comparison to last year at this time, I’m a little bit behind because films that I thought were shoe-ins for a nom (like Wicked: For Good and No Other Choice) were snubbed, so the next seven weeks or so are going to be a grind. The…
