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R. Crumb’s cartoon therapy; a cruel solution to overpopulation

"Crumb" is a portrait of an artist who refuses to censor himself; "One Child Nation" examines the suppressed history of population control in China.

Extra-sensory perception from a trio of boundary pushers

Films from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab get a showcase on the Criterion Channel.

You’re bored. You’re stuck indoors. Here’s your guide to free streaming movies

How to pass the time at no extra cost (unless you count time spent watching ads).

Brazilian hit 'Bacurau’ tells a weird, wonderful tale of perseverance

The 2019 Cannes Jury Prize winner will get a “virtual release” via Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theater.

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Boston film festivals work through cancellations and sunk costs. ‘We’re hoping to be able to continue’
The season's many local festivals have been postponed or canceled outright.

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‘Swallow’ captures the quiet horrors of loneliness and self-harm
Writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis delivers a stylish but heavy-handed psychological horror drama.

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In ‘The Banker,' remembering the Black real estate mogul who hired a white stand-in

The movie charts Bernard Garrett's climb up the 1950s L.A. real estate market.

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‘Inside the Rain’ is a feat for this neuroatypical filmmaker

Aaron Fisher created this darkly comic drama about a college student with ADHD, OCD, bipolar and borderline personality disorders.

The journal of a plague year; threats of election dysfunction

"Influenza 1918" and “Kill Chain: The Cyber War ln America’s Elections” both raise the question: What have we learned?

The ReelAbilities Film Festival creates access online

The festival, with a program of features and shorts by and about people with disabilities, will livestream its free screenings and post-screening discussions.

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Something familiar, something peculiar: Stephen Sondheim at the movies

The composer, who turns 90 on March 22, has had an impact on film, too

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In ‘Blow the Man Down,’ a Down East noir where women are tougher than men

Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy's writing-directing debut is about as good as regional filmmaking gets.

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10 forgotten gems from 2,000 Ty Burr movie reviews

A “Between the Cracks” on-demand festival for enforced home viewing.

How now ‘First Cow’? Director Kelly Reichardt explains.

The indie director's films typically defy genre and resist categorization, perhaps none more than her latest work.