W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices

Louis Massiah's 1995 documentary on the African-American writer and educator was crafted with four different screenwriters. more...

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Oliver Stone tells the story of George W. Bush (Josh Brolin) from his youth as a spoiled, oblivious fuckup to his maturity as a spoiled, oblivious fuckup. more...

• by J.R. Jones

W.E.B. DuBois of Great Barrington

An hour-long TV documentary about the sociologist and founder of the NAACP. more...

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The Wackness

Jonathan Levine's funny and sincere coming-of-age drama follows a Jewish B-boy (Josh Peck) from the Upper West Side of Manhattan as he tries to survive the summer of 1994 before going away to college. more...

• by J.R. Jones

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

A troubling and fascinating if not entirely satisfactory film documenting the 1993 clash between federal agents and the Branch Davidians, which it argues was almost completely misrepresented in the press at that time. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes

Fans of the famed porn star, who died of AIDS in 1988, will want to catch this exhaustive 1998 video biography. more...

• by Fred Camper

Wadi

In Wadi (1981), Israeli-born filmmaker Amos Gitai presents connections and conflicts among Jews and Arabs living in a valley of his native Haifa; this 1991 video begins with that documentary and adds material shot a decade later. more...

• by Fred Camper

Wag the Dog

Robert De Niro plays a presidential spin doctor spurred into action after a sex scandal threatens to destroy his boss?s chances for reelection. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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The Wages of Fear (NR)

In Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1953 suspense classic, four out-of-work Europeans (Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, Peter Van Eyck), trapped in a squalid South American village that's exploited by a U.S. oil company, agree to drive two truckloads of nitroglycerine over 300 miles of primitive roads in exchange for $2,000 each—if they survive. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Tags: Suspense/Thriller

Waging a Living

Directed by Roger Weisberg (Ending Welfare as We Know It), this documentary examines the working poor in contemporary America. more...

Wagner & Me

British actor Stephen Fry (Gosford Park, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) sets out on an extended pilgrimage to learn about his musical idol, Richard Wagner, covering the annual Wagner festival in Bayreuth, Germany, and making side trips to the composer's haunts in Switzerland and Saint Petersburg. more...

• by J.R. Jones
• Tags: Documentary

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Wagon Master

The film that John Ford most often cited as his personal favorite among his westerns, Wagon Master (1950) stars Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr. as two drifters assigned to lead a Mormon train to the Utah frontier. more...

• by Dave Kehr

Wagons East!

Sad to say, John Candy's last movie is also his worst—a stridently unfunny western comedy that is equally lame in its writing (Matthew Carlson and Jerry Abrahamson) and direction (Peter Markle). more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Wah-Wah

Character actor Richard E. Grant makes his writing and directing debut with this autobiographical feature about growing up in white Swaziland in the early years of its independence from Great Britain. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Waist Deep

A better-than-average urban crime picture, with a strong narrative line and astute recycling of classic noir themes. more...

• by J.R. Jones