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This HBO documentary spotlights the women activists who banded together to form Jane, a clandestine group providing safe abortions in the years before Roe v. Wade.
Author: Beatrice Loayza
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‘Eiffel’ Review: Paris is for Lovers
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Gustave Eiffel, the man behind France’s most well-known landmark, is a passionate lover first, and an engineer second in this tedious 19th century romance.
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‘Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy’ Review: Boy Meets Alien
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This children’s adventure movie from Vietnam is like “E.T.”—but sloppier and more eccentric.
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James Wong Howe: A Gutsy Cinematographer Finally Gets His Due
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A retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image looks at a career filled with sublime images made at a time of strong anti-Asian sentiment in Hollywood.
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‘Playlist’ Review: A Broken Record of Trials
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In this brisk comedy set in Paris, an aspiring cartoonist stumbles through a series of romantic, professional and medical misadventures.
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What Does It Mean to Live in Ukraine? Filmmakers Offer Their Answers.
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Some, like Sergei Loznitsa, choose to use history as a filter. But the movies that stand out forgo monumental statements for personal ones.
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‘Digger’ Review: A Man Defends the Land Against Development
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The Greek filmmaker Georgis Grigorakis takes an elemental theme and layers it with family conflict.
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‘Deception’ Review: Verbal Fetishism
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In Arnaud Desplechin’s sly adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1990 novel, a middle-aged writer draws inspiration for his next book from discussions with his mistress.
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The Business of Making ‘Pleasure’
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The screenwriter-director Ninja Thyberg and the actor Sofia Kappel discuss creating a porn industry drama through a feminist lens.