Endurance

"...quite a full-fledged documentary, sports biography, or inspirational work, Endurance has elements of all these familiar types of filmmaking..."

June 4, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

"...day's sail from the continent when his ship The Endurance was frozen in place in the surrounding ice. Thus..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Behind the Wheel With Documentary The Gentleman Driver

The world of millionaire endurance racers in The Gentleman Driver

"...the sport’s last connection to its amateur roots. In endurance events, where teams field multiple drivers taking turns in..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rad

Hal Needham's BMX action flick restored

"...a halcyon haze, Rad is a tedious exercise of endurance that has nothing to do the number of bunny..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ford v Ferrari

Enduring male bonding cuts through racetrack noise and paddock politics

"...vying for the championship at the crown jewel of endurance races, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Ford v..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Maiden

Astounding true story of first women in professional yachting's biggest race

"...It’s a costly and cutthroat hypermasculine test of speed, endurance, and more than a little lunacy that every three..."

July 26, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tickled

Doc goes beneath the surface of competitive endurance tickling

"...the internet, he comes across a video depicting “competitive endurance tickling,” and his interest is piqued. But when he..."

July 8, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Cutie and the Boxer

The 40-year marriage of two visual artists is explored in this documentary.

"...and the Boxer is also a portrait of marital endurance. Love and acceptance are evident despite the marriage’s rocky..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Surfer, Dude

Matthew McConaughey joins with the director of Hand on a Hard Body in this ode to near-naked bodies, weed, and surf-speak. Oh, and it's also a work of fiction.

"...that 11 years after his engrossing documentary about an endurance competition to win a truck in Longview, Texas, filmmaker..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Deep Water

The documentary Deep Water tells the white-knuckled true story of the first single-handed around-the-world yacht competition.

"...a desperate man brought to the limits of human endurance. It’s hard to imagine a time when the sea..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Local teens on TV

Local teens star in reality series, ENDURANCE: Fiji.

"...local high schools, as they are now starring in Endurance: Fiji on the Discovery Kids Channel...."

Oct. 10, 2007 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

Lots of information and finely honed arguments characterize this vicariously thrilling and joyous documentary that explores heavy metal’s many permutations and sheer endurance over the past 30-odd years.

"...metal, Norwegian death metal, ad infinitum) and its sheer endurance over the past 30-odd (sometimes very odd if you..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Grandfather

"...of the film renders it a marathon of sheer endurance. On the plus side, The Grandfather was clearly nominated..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hands on a Hard Body

Unpretentious insight into the nature of human aspiration can be found in Bindler's documentary about the yearly contest in which Jack Long Nissan of Longview, Texas, gives a new hard body pickup to whomever can keep his or her hands on it the longest.

"...cracking up at their jokes, underscoring their powers of endurance with frequent shots of the sun and moon crossing..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

My Life

"...Constantine and Haing S. Ngor. Teary melodramas involving the endurance and purity of true love despite the presence of..."

Nov. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Cannes Festival of Humor in Advertising

"...shown here back to back, creating somewhat of an endurance test for the viewer. There are a number of..."

March 13, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pastime

"...and sincerity save Pastime from becoming a test of endurance...."

Oct. 4, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Slacker

Slacker's perception of our city's subcultures shows them not to be so marginal after all.

"...is more permissible than mock-futility as a sign of endurance and mourns the passing of time by marking it..."

July 5, 1991 Movie Review by Chris Walters

Fantastic Fest Review: Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest

Gaming documentary is no tribute to the solitary player

"...documentary about a man trying to break the world endurance record for playing a videogame...."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Object Collection’s It's All True

This opera culled from Fugazi concert detritus was an endurance test for both audience and performers

"...At 100 minutes, the show was an endurance test for both audience and performer. And while some..."

May 25, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Going the Distance

"...Haile Gebreslassie Ten thousand meters is a pretty long..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature by Lee Nichols

Nyad

Biopic of controversial record-setting swimmer just skims the surface

"...There’s not a lot of space in endurance swimming for sixtysomething superstars, but former competitive swimmer Diana..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Sing Faster: The Stagehands’ Ring Cycle

"...as a pinnacle of operatic achievement and a gleeful endurance experience for the viewer, who ever stops to think..."

Oct. 5, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Peek Into One Boutique's Two Decades of Preservation

AFS Essential Cinema: Selections From Milestone Films

"...program are the harrowing South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition and the lyrical Araya, about Venezuelan salt harvesters...."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Roll 'Em

March

"...ENDURANCE..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Color Purple

Musical of Alice Walker's classic novel raised by stacked cast

"...and lean into the story’s themes of hope and endurance through female friendship and solidarity...."

Dec. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Skinamarink

Avant-garde horror strains eyes and patience

"...out-of-copyright cartoons. Yet it's also an eye-straining act of endurance, so if you love 30-second underlit Dutch angles of..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Benedetta

Paul Verhoeven gets historical for his new take on nunsploitation

"...in that they’re bursting with themes about the powerful endurance of women...."

Dec. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Old Ways

Brujeria horror has a fun Bruce Campbell vibe

"...Now alum Marcos Gabriel) put Canales through an ichor-splattered endurance race. She goes full-bore for the "what the hell..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Painted Bird

Jerzy Kosinski's brutal novel of Nazi-occupied Poland loses none of its inhumanity

"...Nearly three hours in length, the movie becomes an endurance test with each heartless act, relentless in its depiction..."

July 17, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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