The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Side by Side is a fantastic documentary on the format of shooting feature films. To the unaware today most movies are shot on digital cameras as opposed to the photochemically styled film cameras of the past days. Both have their plus and minuses and in this documentary, Keanu Reeves goes about explaining the differences of the format and the opinion of most famous filmmakers on the subject. Featuring everyone from James Cameron to Martin Scorsese Side by Side is a great look at the technical aspect of cinema.

(36%) A documentary with its sights clearly focused more on film aficionados than the typical causal movie goer, which is both the films strength and weakness. Its strength lie in that it knows most people out there will care very little if a film is shot digitally or using film so long as it looks good and is entertaining/well made/both, so it does not really go after that type of film fan at all. This really is much more of a technical and opinion based affair that you really need a genuine interest in the inner workings of film industry to really get anything out of, and if you don't then I'd advise you to watch something else.

This feature length documentary tackling the subject of the move from film to digital in the movie world has been made with supremely auspicious timing, arriving at what may well prove to have been the pivotal moment in cinema history when the momentum of change tipped the balance away from essentially a century old format and into a digital world new and uncharted. Made even a year earlier or a year later, this may have been a very different beast.Presented largely as a talking heads style debate with some of cinema's leading directors and cinematographers, Side By Side gathers the thoughts and feelings of those, old and new to the industry, who are living and working inside the guts of the machine and seeing their world changing irrevocably with every passing day. It's a dry and somewhat specialised topic to be sure, but for anyone interested in the history, future, technology and aesthetics of cinema, I highly recommend it.

If your one a film lover or just movie lover in general this documentary just might have your interest. This is actually a well crafted documentary that talks a bit about the history of film. Different cameras and about movies going 3D. But the primary focus is about the positive and negative aspects about films and digital. Although some of it can be individual directors or filmmakers opinions. It's interesting how it delves into the perception about authenticity and CGI in films today. While some filmmakers are focused on the authenticity of a film others think more about the digital age of making movies. And has no other than the cool and charismatic actor Keanu Reeves going around doing interviews for this documentary. And interview well known directors such as Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, James Cameron, the Wachowski siblings and more. Although they share similar or different views on films and digital they all seem to show their love and passion for films or movies and what they do. For a film lover such as myself this documentary grabbed my attention and held my interest just about all the way through. Currently films in the movie making industry is disappearing and this documentary really does a good job of why it's sad to see something that has been around for such a long period of time from the beginning of movies leading to extinction. This is very good documentation about a form of entertainment and storytelling that will stay with a lot of people's memories and maybe within their hearts.9/10