Scheck on the Arts

Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter film reviews from the Doc NYC festival: I Learn America chronicles the travails of five immigrant students at Brooklyn's International High School at Lafayette. To read my review, click here. We Always Lie to St… more »

Robert Mays' gripping documentary Kids for Cash chronicles a horrifying juvenile court scandal involving two corrupt Pennsylvania judges. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here. The Dark Matter of Love is a documentary about the complex emot… more »

The indie film drama The Fall of 1980 depicts the emotion-charged reunion of a group of millennial generation friends. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here. The documentary Revenge of the Mekons chronicles the decades-long career of the ge… more »

The rescue of dozens of lions from appalling conditions in Bolivian circuses is the subject of the documentary Lion Ark. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here. The documentary The Great Fallacy presents a dire portrait of the troubled polit… more »

A robbery involving four meth addicts results in surprising revelations in Tony Glazer's thriller Junction. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here. Joel Allen Schroeder's documentary Dear Mr. Watterson examines the cultural impact of th… more »