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What Documentaries to Catch at This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival
This year’s iteration includes titles about AOC, the making of movie sex scenes, and what’s happened to the “stars” of older documentaries.
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David Cronenberg Creates a World Where “Surgery is the New Sex”
Starring Léa Seydoux, Viggo Mortensen, and Kristen Stewart, Crimes of the Future is funny, serious, and sexy all at once.
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A Timely Documentary Revisits the Time When Abortion Was Illegal
The Janes interviews former members of Chicago’s underground network that helped people secure abortions.
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Kelly Reichardt Probes What Keeps Artists from Doing Work
Her recent film Showing Up features Michelle Williams as a sculptor who’s constantly driven to distraction.
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The World of Music Video Is Finally Adopting Restoration Efforts
As videos shot on film get refurbished for the digital age, we’re discovering more and more fascinating artifacts in the original materials.
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10 Films to Get to Know Ukraine
From music and architecture to comedy and horror, these films showcase Ukrainian culture and its long-held ethos of resistance.
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They Tried to Make a Sexy Movie About the Eiffel Tower Engineer
Eiffel inadvertently paints its protagonist not as a great man worthy of scrutiny or praise, but as the Elon Musk of his day.
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Ruben Östlund Satirizes the Lives of the Mega-Rich in Triangle of Sadness
Now playing the Cannes Film Festival, the new film from the director of The Square embarks on a luxury cruise that goes to hell.
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All Men Are Evil, According to This Film
In yet another horror movie that’s actually about trauma, writer-director Alex Garland makes his points bluntly, having one actor play many facets of misogyny.
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David Attenborough Guides Us to the Time of the Dinosaurs
Prehistoric Planet is visually ambitious, but the docuseries often fails to contextualize those visuals for the curious viewer.
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Films to Watch on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s Return to Japanese Rule
From 1968 to 1973, the Nihon Documentarist Union did radical documentary work in Japan. They made two films in Okinawa before, during, and after its reversion.
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The Tsugua Diaries Is More Than an Arthouse Summer Hangout Movie
The plot of Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s film moves backward in time, continually recontextualizing what at first looks like a simple situation.