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Fall film festivals, coming to your living room

The Boston Film Festival and Roxbury International Film Festival are available online this year.

In ‘Kajillionaire,’ the family that scams together may — or may not — stay together

An oddball comedy about con artists and human connection and a mixed bag from writer-director Miranda July.

It’s the 1970 Miss World beauty pageant, when protests erupted, and now ‘Misbehaviour’ ensues

The cast is stellar and the story-telling solid and conventional. With Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley – and a surprisingly convincing Greg Kinnear as Bob Hope.

At this year’s Camden International Film Festival: surveying the Maine coast, tracking down Berlin Wall segments, and targeting suspects overseas

Three recommended films from the online festival are inventive and unique studies of people interacting with their habitat and surroundings.

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Who wants to be a ‘Kajillionaire’?
Miranda July talks about her new comedy of hearts and heists.

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What it’s like at the Toronto film festival when you’re not actually in Toronto
Can you even call it a film festival when there are no festivities?

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‘Killer of Sheep’ captures the many moods of 1970s Watts

Charles Burnett's first feature, from 1977, is available via the Coolidge Corner's Virtual Screening Room.

‘The Way I See It’ shows how Obama White House photographer Pete Souza saw it

The documentary focuses on Souza's time documenting the Obama presidency.

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Toronto film festival diary

Four forthcoming movies present four very different fathers.

Doc Talk: Russian interference, Cuban oppression, unreal estate

A look at Alex Gibney's "Agents of Chaos," Adriana Bosch’s "Letters to Eloisa," and David Garrett Byars’s "Public Trust."

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Janelle Monáe shines in ‘Antebellum,’ where past horror haunts a happy present

Heavy-handed and glibly effective, this post-"Get Out" horror film uses racial issues to enhance genre filmmaking rather than the other way around.

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In ‘The Nest,’ a house is not necessarily a home

The second film from the estimable writer-director Sean Durkin concerns a family unraveling in a gloomy Surrey mansion; it’s psychological drama rather than haunted-house horror.

Fred Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’ (as in Boston City Hall) at Toronto film fest

The documentary opened Sept. 14 at this year's virtual festival.

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Big screen vs. small screen

The big screen is great, but some good things happen when the pictures are small.