The best documentary film I’ve seen in the last two years is not one I hear much about, even though it was shortlisted for a 2025 Oscar and has a whopping 97% critic’s score on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Its audience score is only 2% lower at 95%.
It’s also won multiple Sundance awards.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, available on Netflix in the UK, follows a Norwegian gamer (Mats Steen) with a progressive muscular disease.
He lives a double life. There’s the outside world, where his rare condition – Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which occu...


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