You Don't Know Jack & Kevorkian

You Don't Know Jack succeeds on two levels. The first is that Barry Levinson directs with a cool hand the story of Jack Kevorkian, a doctor who believed and exercised his patients right to die by a lethal injection. If you're dying, or if you can't move any part of your body, shouldn't you have the right to die? If you're on a feeding tube and they decide to take it out and let you die, it's death by starvation: one of the most painful ways to die. The second way the film succeeds is the power of Al Pacino. Pacino totally embodies the fervency of Kevorkian. The story is well told, convincing, and practically a character study of a man with strong conviction.
You Don't Know Jack: ★★★1/2

Kevorkian is the HBO documentary that followed You Don't Know Jack by a few months. We get to see the intelligence of Kevorkian and his brilliance that means he's harder than hell to deal with. The entire film is not extraordinary in terms of a documentary, but Kevorkian himself is fascinating enough to carry the film.
Kevorkian: ★★★