2016: MY FAVORITE DOCS OF THE YEAR (RANKED)

One cannot live in desperate times like these without wondering how and why we reached such lows. The list of grievances is long: persistent neoliberalism, increasing precarization, total commodification, environmental disasters, labor exploitation, the militarization of police, brutal warfare, terrorism, mass surveillance, racial incarceration, social cleansing, corporate America, the military-industrial complex at the White House and, obviously, Donald Trump. Unsurprisingly, the documentary has become the most interesting, perhaps even urgent, film genre today. The unexamined life is not worth living, as the adage goes. Good...