Director Andrew Stanton’s second foray into a live-action feature has once again failed to recapture the same moviemaking magic seen in his superior Pixar animated features.
What distinguishes Birds of War from many documentaries about Syria is its refusal to separate the political from the personal.
Josephine is a film that demands empathy and rewards the viewer with a profound understanding of the resilience of children and the limitations of the people who protect them.
The documentary closes on a quietly devastating observation. Immigration policy, for all its bureaucratic language, ultimately communicates something far more intimate.