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Matters of life and death beyond mere borders

An austere, gorgeously shot parable of chaos and loss in modern Mexico, about a mother searching for her missing son across a devastated landscape.

In ‘Our Friend,’ friends very much in need

A cancer drama, based on a prize-winning Esquire memoir, that threads the needle between schmaltz and brute honesty by focusing on the human relationships radiating out from the sickbed.

Plans go awry in ‘Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Time’

Writer-director Lili Horvát has made a cool, cerebral drama that overplays the muted ambiguity, but Natasa Stork is striking in the lead.

In ‘Spoor,’ someone’s hunting the hunters

In this darkly comic mystery-meets-character study from director Agnieszka Holland, an elderly animal lover tries to solve the crimes in a Polish village.

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On Netflix, ‘The White Tiger’ steps outside the rooster coop
A ferocious adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s prize-winning novel about a poor young man navigating the paradoxes of an India caught between modernity and medievalism.

Beyond ‘One Night in Miami:’ Where to find more of the movie’s iconic foursome
Where to find more movies with Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Malcolm X, and Sam Cooke.

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Regina King on making ‘One Night’ memorable

The Oscar-winning actress talks about her feature directing debut, "One Night in Miami."

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12 activities to quell your nerves in these dark times

Here are some sources of guaranteed sunshine.

Doc Talk: Day care around the clock; a dad who was never on the clock

Spotlighting Loira Limbal’s immersive and affecting observational documentary, “Through the Night,” and Lynne Sachs's cubist and kaleidoscopic “Film About a Father Who.”

In Focus: The Villages is where aging gracefully, sort of, meets aging massively, definitely

A look at “Some Kind of Heaven,” first-time feature director Lance Oppenheim’s assured, deadpan, absurdist documentary about the nation's largest retirement community.

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On Amazon, ‘One Night’ and four famous men

On Feb. 25, 1964, Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), and Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) hang out in the aftermath of Clay’s victory over Sonny Liston.

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In ‘My Little Sister,’ a bond beyond understanding

In Germany's submission for this year's Oscars, the incomparable Nina Hoss plays a Berlin playwright whose desperate efforts to save her twin brother from leukemia tip her toward madness.

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Joan Micklin Silver: the Lower East Side, yes; Hollywood, no, and that was Hollywood’s loss

A barrier-breaking filmmaker, she directed three of the finest movies of the late 1970s, one late-1980s romantic comedy that looks better with every passing year, and a little-known gem that was among HBO’s very first original films.

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In Focus: On HBO, the rise and fall — and return — of Tiger Woods

The opening montage of Matt Heineman and Matt Hamachek’s thoughtful, engaging, and comprehensive two-part documentary, “Tiger,” eloquently sums up Woods’s first act.