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In terms of feature films, its been a stellar year, with everything from Inside Out and Mad Max Fury Road to The Duke Of Burgundy and Lil Quinquin making it one of the strongest first six months of a moviegoing calendar that we can remember read our 2. Best Films Of The Year So Far feature, with a plethora of equally excellent movies having cropped up at festivals read our 2. Best Film Festival Debuts Of The Year So Far feature too. But to focus on the fiction arena would be to miss whole swaths of great cinema, because the documentaries of the first half of 2. They dont get the 3. Tackling subjects from acting legends and soul singers taken before their time to Scientology and corrupt cops, these films are marked by top notch filmmaking, a sense of drama that can compete with anything in the fictional realm, and the feeling that youve walked away enlightened about their varied subjects. Below youll find the 2. Playlist have seen in 2. AmyThere is no denying that Amy is a brilliantly made documentary searing, pacy and incredibly affecting to the point that watching it without crying must surely be some sort of Voight Kampff test for weeding out the robots among us. But while the astonishing craftsmanship here from Senna director Asif Kapadia undoubtedly earns the film a place on this list, its not unproblematic in fact, the very effectiveness of this package as a delivery system for near unprecedented levels of grief at a celebrity death come with their own worrisome adjuncts. Mainly, the flaws and the feeling both derive from the sense that the film is less about Amy Winehouse than about Amy Winehouses death foreknowledge of her demise imbues even the earliest and brightest moments with an acute retrospective discomfort that can be maudlin and almost macabre at times. This narrative admits little in the way of gray area the people in Winehouses life are either heroes who tried valiantly to fight their way through the forests of addiction, bulimia, insecurity and neurosis, or the villains especially her father and her horrible husband Blake Fielder Civil who treated her as though she were some sort of helplessly doomed fairytale princess. In plotting Winehouses life on an inevitable downward trajectory, Kapadia, through no worse instincts than to make us feel for a subject he obviously cares a great deal for, denies her much agency, painting her more as the helpless pinball battered between malevolent individuals and forces beyond her control. Still, while also uncomfortably pointing the finger of blame partially at a rapacious, merciless public, Amy is nothing if not comprehensive proof of Kapadias complete command of the biographical documentary form, and is an undeniably, inescapably powerful piece of work. Full ReviewBest Of Enemies An examination of a series of TV debates between two recently deceased intellectuals might sound like an impossibly niche subject for one of the best reviewed documentaries of the year, but in Best Of Enemies, Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville the latter is the helmer of the Oscar winning 2. Feet From Stardom persuasively make the case that the 1. ABC TV clashes between liberal writer and thinker Gore Vidal and legendary right wing National Review founder William F Buckley Jr. American history, but were events that set the tone for the bitterly divided culture that we live in today. Placed third in the ratings without a notable anchor like Walter Cronkite and needing an angle for the Republican and Democratic Conventions in 1. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, ABC decided to feature nightly debates between Vidal and Buckley regarding issues from Vietnam, which Buckley advocated dropping nuclear weapons on, to the racial climate at the time. Best Of Enemies isnt the most formally adventurous film here, relying on talking heads including the late Christopher Hitchens and some impressive archive footage, but its the substance of the film that proves so impressive. Morgan and Neville expertly set up the context of the time and the similarities between the two men, as well as their profound differences that led to an explosive finale that only strengthened their loathing of each other. And ultimately, it serves as something of a lament for a time when educated, witty and brilliant men like Vidal and Buckley could trade barbs on the airwaves, while simultaneously arguing that their TV pairing was the beginning of our Crossfire, Fox NewsMSNBC era. Full ReviewCartel Land You expect certain things from a documentary which has Kathryn Bigelows name attached, and Cartel Land on which the Hurt Locker Oscar winner serves as an executive producer more than delivers on those fronts, and more besides. The drugs war in Mexico and its impact in the U. S, has been a popular one in film and TV in recent years, from Traffic through Breaking Bad to Cannes thriller Sicario, but few have captured the complexities and horrors as well as Matthew Heinemans film, remarkably only his second feature and his first as solo director. It has a dual focus on two vigilante leaders whove taken it upon themselves to take on the fearsome gangs Mexican doctor Jos Mireles, the leaders of the Autodefensas, who battle the dealers where the authorities wont, and Nailer Foley, an unemployed American vet who patrols the border in search of scouts from the cartels. The films biggest issue is that its slightly lop sided Nailers an interesting figure, but Mireles is infinitely more compelling, an almost revolutionary figure who seems to have the best interest of his community at heart, but who increasingly adopts the same brutal tactics as the cartels and has secrets of his own in his past. The access that Heinemans managed to get, from being caught in the middle of gang battles to his visit to a Mexican meth lab, is simply staggering that he manages to produce such an aesthetically striking film, one that has images that wouldnt be out of place in the Roger Deakins shot Sicario, is almost ridiculous. He creates a genuinely complex look not just at the battle against the cartels, but in the morality of fighting fire with fire and of taking the law into your own hands. Bigelow would be, and presumably is, proud. Full ReviewDreamcatcher Not, alas, a in depth look at the 2. Lawrence Kasdan directed trainwreck adaptation of a Stephen King novel, this Dreamcatcher turns out to be far, far more important. British director Kim Longinotto has made her name with a number of intensely powerful, quietly observed films often focusing on the plight of women, like Divorce Iranian Style or Rough Aunties, but Dreamcatcher might be one of her most moving pictures yet. An interesting double bill partner to Steve James terrific The Interrupters from a few years back, it focuses on Brenda Myers Powell, who survived an unbelievably tough life and twenty five years as a sex worker in Chicago and now runs the Dreamcatcher Foundation, offering counselling to women on the streets, in prison or in otherwise desperate straits. Shot in an unfussy, unobtrusive cinema vrite style, its both a deep look at an extraordinary, almost saintly person, and the milieu that she operates in, building up a heartbreaking portrait of the women she tries to help, from her own drug addicted sister in law to Temeka, whos been working the streets for three years despite being only 1. Longinottos subject matter has rarely been concerned with the U. S, but she brings the same enormous level of empathy and compassion here as she does to her earlier films, drawing threads between the various women we meet and showing that for so many of them, their troubles are caused by childhood abuse.