David Rooney

@david-rooney.bsky.social

Chief Film Critic at The Hollywood Reporter, plus theater when time permits. Member of @NYFCC.bsky.social and @NSFC.bsky.social https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/author/david-rooney/

Love these projects where the THR critics team wrestles over favorites. Proud of the range of work in our ranked breakdown of the 25 greatest docs of all time. And hats off to our amazing editor @jon-frosch.bsky.social for streamlining a mountain of copy. www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-d...

The 25 Best Documentaries of All Time, Ranked

From 'Grey Gardens' to 'The Gleaners and I,' 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Grizzly Man' and beyond, THR critics pick their favorite non-fiction films of all time.

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Caught up late with Australian director Adrian Chiarella's transfixing debut LEVITICUS. Instantly joins the ranks of great queer horror with its affecting story of teenage love and the insidious evils of conversion therapy, using pious religiosity to make us fear the person we most desire. Loved it.

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Caught up at the Provincetown Film Festival with Helen Walsh's beautifully observed queer love story about a Welsh mussel farmer and an itinerant deckhand, ON THE SEA. Melancholy and sensual, anchored by a vivid sense of place. Really stayed with me. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

‘On the Sea’ Review: A Piercingly Observed Queer Love Story Set in a Hyper-Masculine Welsh Fishing Community

Barry Ward plays a middle-aged mussel farmer, with Lorne MacFadyen as the younger itinerant worker who sparks desires he has spent most of his life hiding.

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