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Glenn Dunks

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Biography:

Glenn Charlie Dunks is an award-winning film critic from Melbourne, Australia. He has written for print and online outlets in Australia and the United States for nearly two decades including Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Metro, The Film Experience, Paradise Magazine, The Big Issue, ScreenHub and Junkee. In 2025, he launched redocumented, a new website dedicated to reviews of documentaries exclusively. He has also appeared on many podcasts as well as being a regular film contributor to Joy 94.9, Australia's first and only LGBTQI+ community radio station. He is the winner of two Australian Film Critics Association awards.

Reviews

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Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) (2026) 93% EDIT “And roping in James Cameron during a break from Avatar post-production is such a baller coup and his dorky admiration for her is charming to witness... Cameron is such a deeply sincere person that I really want to believe he’s genuine.” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review Phenomena (2026) EDIT “You know what? It’s great that there is a documentary for stoners and acid trippers. Non-fiction for all, I say! ” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) 86% EDIT “The final product is candid, exciting, funny, voyeuristic, and a tribute to Madonna’s work ethic as well as a shrine to her position in pop culture, her talent and, yes, her ego.” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review The King of Color (2025) EDIT “I'm not sure Herbert is particularly interesting enough to warrant a full documentary about himself... Nor do I think the film really goes above and beyond the call of duty in telling his story beyond hitting all of the beats that one might expect.” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review Steal This Story, Please! (2025) 95% EDIT “...it more accurately reflects the scrappy DIY newsroom of its subject’s outlet. And that’s wonderful to be dunked right into. You can all but hear the shuffling of papers on a desk.” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review Bernstein's Wall (2021) 100% EDIT “There are no bells or whistles here. Instead, simple yet honest filmmaking—am I talking a movie or a roast dinner?—that eschews a lot of the glossier choices that many contemporary artist portraits tend to make these days.” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review Under the Flags, the Sun (2025) EDIT “The resulting film is a bit like something found deep in the grimy bowels of a prison. A found footage documentary with the visual and aural landscape of some cursed horror film. The vibe here is decidedly sinister.” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) 98% EDIT “Together, they amplify the way this city is, to quote one of its subjects, "suspended in time". A city not quite able to emerge out of the destruction of its histories—both natural and human.” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review Henry Fonda for President (2024) 86% EDIT “It's an essay film, but weaves and shapes itself in ways that provide more natural narrative ebbs and flows. It’s long, yes, but Horwath and his editor Michael Palm allow the story to breathe. ” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% EDIT “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert may play like an encore to Luhrmann’s Elvis, but that doesn’t really matter. Together, they’re probably a fitting double-feature that demonstrates more of Elvis’s charm and talent than either could alone.” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) 100% EDIT “Talankin is petty and rash and that attitude carries over into the film. It’s a whirlwind of emotions like a kid going through the turbulence of growing up. That tonal surprise is one of its biggest assets.” – reDocumented May 13, 2026 Full Review Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1987) EDIT “Beyond being a documentary about a failed artistic endeavour, Brookner’s film is a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process. The joy of being able to illuminate an idea and bring it to life...” – reDocumented Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% EDIT “Thanks to the propulsive editing of Poitras, Amy Foote and Peter Bowman, deftly assembling a collage of archival footage, Hersh’s story and that of the scandals he broke and reported on has a distinctive heft to it. ” – reDocumented Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) 96% EDIT “Often I found myself moved by her story, only to be rattled by the cinematography that gave me an impression of a filmmaker trying desperately to disguise the comparative privilege from which she comes.” – reDocumented Apr 21, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 94% EDIT “The Voice of Hind Rajab escapes tortured dramatics and replaces it with cold hard facts. It’s easier to avoid the truth when filtered through constructed mise-en-scene. Here, the audience can’t avoid it...” – reDocumented Apr 21, 2026 Full Review WTO/99 (2025) 84% EDIT “Parallels to the modern day appear deliberately and accidentally. He knew exact what he was doing by including video of Bernie Sanders. But likely nobody could have expected the return of inflatable protest costumes to the streets of Seattle in protest...” – reDocumented Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Selena y Los Dinos (2025) 96% EDIT “But buried here underneath the sequin bustier tops, the sparkling pantsuits and rhinestone gowns is a nugget of a truly unique cinematic point of view that I wished we’d gotten the chance to uncover.” – reDocumented Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Twiggy (2024) 100% EDIT “Her life may have earned a documentary that was a bit more playful in its structure, but it’s easy to forgive when what we get is so light on its feet. The archival footage here is a particularly gorgeous treat...” – reDocumented Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Zodiac Killer Project (2025) 90% EDIT “I suppose some may take Zodiac Killer Project as glib. Or like he’s taking us for a ride. "Is this bitch for real?" as Manila Luzon would ask. But therein lies the appear of a film like this.” – reDocumented Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Diane Warren: Relentless (2024) 83% EDIT “It’s reliant on friends and family to really get beyond the walls that she puts up and we're able to piece together the family and personal traumas that shaped how she sees the world and what fuels her writing.” – reDocumented Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Citizen Sleuth (2023) 100% EDIT “...Or how about the end credits that feature an audio collage of happily welcoming podcast introductions that quite bluntly lays out how real human deaths have been commodified to sell subscriptions and tote bags. ” – reDocumented Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Night in West Texas (2025) EDIT “In that sense, some lovers of true crime documentaries may feel Night in West Texas leaves them longing... Instead, Esquenazi focuses on Reyos himself and the struggles of being a queer First Nations man in times of great societal flux.” – reDocumented Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Cutting Through Rocks (2025) 100% EDIT “It’s not a surprise that it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for world cinema (documentary) when its images can be so striking and get so efficiently to the heart of its story.” – reDocumented Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (2024) 100% EDIT “Goodbye Horses’ filmmaker was gifted a bag of previously unreleased material. In some ways, the documentary’s legacy may ultimately be in finally getting Q Lazzarus’ catalogue out of the metaphorical vault and back into the public consciousness” – reDocumented Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Are We Good? (2025) 97% EDIT “It's in these scenes that Maron, and therefore the film to a large degree, is at its most compelling. Elsewhere, he’s charismatic and cantankerous and, yes, sympathetic, but it lands on fairly familiar beats.” – reDocumented Mar 15, 2026 Full Review
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