Nim’s Island is the latest so-so effort from Walden Media. Like most of their films, it is based on a children’s book, and like many of their films, it is directed by a first-time feature-film ...

Film director James Marsh described his Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire as a "heist" film. His new documentary, Project Nim, is a heist film too. It's about a chimpanzee that was taken away from ...

You get a bad feeling early in Project Nim, the brilliant, traumatizing documentary by James Marsh (Man on Wire). Nim was a chimpanzee who—I can’t bring myself to use “that”—in 1973 became a test ...

In “Nim’s Island,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” also known as Abigail Breslin, goes all Gilligan on us. She’s the eponymous Nim, an 11-year-old girl living with her marine biologist father Jack (Gerard ...

"James Marsh again proves himself a storyteller of impeccable craftsmanship and delicacy in the unsettling but enthralling" film, writes THR's David Rooney of the Oscar-winning director of "Man on ...

Humans are often thought to be the only animals capable of language. But it’s difficult to prove a negative like this because we’ll never definitively know the subjective interior monologues of other ...