Print this article To what extent should a documentary reveal its opinion of its subject? At the extreme end of the spectrum, where advocacy art such as 2015’s Making a Murderer resides, investigative filmmakers may occasionally win hearts and minds but risk compromising veracity in their zeal to promote a cause. Other nonfiction projects, such as 2018’s Free Solo and last year’s Boys State, maintain a more neutral perspective, allowing viewers to form their own judgments. Balancing awkwardly between these two poles is Some Kind of Heaven, a new feature from debut documentarian Lance Oppenheim. An examination of the Villages, Florida, a retirement community described by one occupant as “God’s waiting room,” the film plainly holds its subject in disdain. What is less clear is precisely why that happens to be the case.