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On the centennial of Pauline Kael's birth, the Quad Cinema is presenting Losing It at the Movies, a retrospective including both films that received her highest praise and those she viciously tore apart.
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The documentary Before Homosexuals seeks to educate those whose knowledge of queer history doesn't go further back than the 20th century.
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In the documentary The Hottest August, director Brett Story interviews sweaty bystanders about how the world is changing.
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In Marcus Lindeen's documentary The Raft, the subjects of the disastrous study reenact its strange events.
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The documentary Recorder explores the life and work of Marion Stokes, who amassed the world's largest independent TV archive without anyone noticing.
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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s The Last Supper plays as part of Film Forum's ongoing series The Hour of Liberation: Decolonizing Cinema, 1966-1981, which presents both classic and overlooked anti-imperialist films.
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In A Drop of Sun Under the Earth, Shikeith positions Black boyhood as a means to interrogate and open up other possibilities for Black masculinity.
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Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Meredith Lackey's Cablestreet, a surreal documentary short about Chinese tech giant Huawei.
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The new Netflix miniseries joins an ongoing cultural conversation over the case of the Central Park Five.
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The Weekly, the paper's documentary venture with FX, is well made but overly reliant on "Truth" branding.
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A documentary dives into the history of the Institute of the Innocents, which housed unwanted babies, and the first painting it ever commissioned.
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A retrospective series at the Museum of Modern Art is putting a spotlight on the veteran documentarian.