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A playlist for protesters and allies

They’re visual and visceral; whether fiction films or documentary, they put a viewer behind the eyes of people of color with an immediacy and a conviction that convinces.

King of comedy Judd Apatow talks about ‘The King of Staten Island’

Directing Pete Davidson, Apatow returns for his first feature film in five years.

Revisiting three film greats; revealing trouble in North Dakota

Documentaries on directors Chantal Akerman and Orson Welles, action star Bruce Lee, and the costs of the North Dakota oil boom.

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Elisabeth Moss or ‘Shirley’

In Josephine Decker’s fictionalized drama, author Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) fights for dominance with her professor husband (Michael Stuhlbarg) while pulling a young campus wife (Odessa Young) into her unstable orbit.

Human Rights Watch Film Festival goes online
The festival's documentaries expose injustices, analyze systems of oppression, and offer glimpses of hope for the future.

‘Tommaso’: a different sort of home movie, with Willem Dafoe as head of the family
Longtime provocateur Abel Ferrara delivers a film, set in Rome, about an aging director's a late-life crisis.

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In ‘1 Angry Black Man,’ lessons that extend very far beyond the classroom

In Menelek Lumumba’s film a college Black Literature class becomes a debate among a diverse group of students over America’s racial ills and what to do about them.

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A big birthday arrives for a filmmaker with a very big career

At 90, Clint Eastwood is one of our finest living auteurs. He’s also one of our least heralded.

These actor-director pairs are old friends

Some directors have a special relationship with some actors. Audiences do, too.

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‘The Vast of Night’: Any guesses how far Cayuga, N.M., is from Roswell?

A stylish, atmospheric tale of sci-fi doings in a sleepy 1950s town.

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Doc Talk: By George, spelling it out, COVID-19 in a Chinese city

A look at “Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself” and two other documentaries.

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In ‘The High Note,’ better call her Miss Davis

A glossy, enjoyable, not remotely believable show business fairy tale about a pop diva (Tracee Ellis Ross) and her personal assistant (Dakota Johnson), who wants to be a record producer.

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With ‘I Will Make You Mine,’ it’s back to Goh

It’s the belated final film in a trilogy featuring singer-songwriter Goh Nakamura as a fictional version of himself.

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Russell Simmons faces the music in HBO’s ‘On the Record’

Like the others documentaries from Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering — “The Invisible War” (2012) and “The Hunting Ground” (2015) — "On the Record" is difficult but essential viewing.