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This month’s picks explore the French legal system, a neighborhood conflict in Florida and the cinema legacy of the Lumière brothers.
Author: Ben Kenigsberg
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‘With Hasan in Gaza’ Review: An Elusive Search
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The Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari has constructed this elliptical documentary out of material filmed in Gaza in 2001, when he was searching for a friend.
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‘Agatha’s Almanac’ Review: Living Off the Land
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Over six years, a filmmaker captured her aunt’s largely self-sufficient lifestyle and eccentricities on a 54-acre farm in Canada.
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‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Review: Their Octopus Teacher
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Sally Field and Lewis Pullman get help from an eight-tentacled friend in this bland adaptation of a hit novel.
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‘Two Pianos’ Review: Striking an Odd Chord
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The filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin directed this off-kilter drama about a French pianist and the life he left behind.
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Three Great Documentaries to Stream
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In this month’s picks, a notorious senator gets grilled, a man changes his eye color and Russian journalists struggle to do their jobs under authoritarianism.
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‘Eagles of the Republic’ Review: How Authoritarians Clip Wings
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In the director Tarik Saleh’s latest feature on contemporary Egypt, a movie star is made to appear in a propaganda film.
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‘Fiume o Morte!’ Review: Scenes From a Mini Dictatorship
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In this documentary, Igor Bezinovic casts nonactors to restage major episodes from when an Italian poet turned strongman ruled a city in what became Croatia.