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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.

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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 Depeche Mode: M (2025) EDIT “Seeing Gahan and the band's prime songwriter and guitarist Martin Gore is probably, beyond the music, the most memorable feature of M. They are lovely together, just two dudes rocking out and still having the time of their lives.” – reDocumented Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Prime Minister (2025) 93% EDIT “Prime Minister does well to utilise Ardern’s refreshing candour throughout to illuminate on a job that saw her unenviably thrust to the forefront of international politics more than once.” – reDocumented Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Walk with Me (2024) EDIT “Levitt shows a lovely knack for the storytelling craft. She leaves the camera rolling through difficult, personally traumatic sequences and doesn't cut away from the moments that are difficult to watch.” – reDocumented Mar 15, 2026 Full Review River of Grass (2025) 100% EDIT “...it has something of a timeless (or, more accurately, out-of-time) poetic visual quality that I find exciting to watch—although, admittedly, might be too dry for some.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Pistachio Wars (2024) EDIT “The first-time filmmakers are wise to anchor this story in the simple, effective storytelling. Good ol’ American greed is front and centre here, and its influence leaches into so many different areas like toxins into the ground.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Heaven (1987) 71% EDIT “Maybe Heaven is just one big way of saying to stop thinking about all of this so much and just live your life while we have it.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review There Was, There Was Not (2024) 100% EDIT “The sadness of the film and the deep sense of loss that is felt by Mkrtichian’s subjects is smartly told through her observational storytelling and Alexandria Bombach’s editing, criss-crossing between the four women and the land itself...” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Looking for Robert (2024) EDIT “Copans’ intimate knowledge of Kramer allows for Looking for Robert to be a more honest take on the filmmaker. One that celebrates, but never presents him as something that he wasn’t. Or, perhaps even more importantly, that his films never were.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024) 91% EDIT “There’s no doubt a hell of a lot more to the story and maybe there’s another film’s story to tell in a trilogy-capping feature. But this is an incisive look at one country’s perilous descent into dangerous extremism...” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Ai Weiwei's Turandot (2025) EDIT “It acts as a nice artefact for those of us who would never have the opportunity to see such a production. I would have liked to have seen more of its final form, especially since the movie’s opening sequence... was a breathtaking way to begin.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review Naked Ambition (2023) 70% EDIT “...it’s hard not to suspect that there are several chapters of her life that aren’t explored quite as much as they could be, [but] it’s lively and has a nice spark while speaking to ideas that feel relevant for today.” – reDocumented Mar 8, 2026 Full Review
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