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The French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch’s feel-good dance film follows a professional ballerina returning to the stage after an ankle injury.
Author: Natalia Winkelman
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‘Victim/Suspect’ Review: When the Accuser Becomes the Accused
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A reporter investigates cases in which sexual assault survivors were arrested on charges of false reporting in this cogent documentary.
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‘Butterfly Vision’ Review: A Ukrainian Soldier’s Lonely Struggle
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A traumatized woman returns home from eastern Ukraine after being held captive by Russian separatists.
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‘Museum of the Revolution’ Review: Sheltering in an Abandoned Utopia
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This quiet documentary observes three unhoused women from different generations who live among the remains of an unfinished museum in Belgrade.
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‘The Starling Girl’ Review: As the Spirit Moves
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Eliza Scanlen plays a pious teenager who begins an affair with her youth pastor in this tender coming-of-age drama.
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‘Anxious Nation’ Review: The Kids Aren’t All Right
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Young people discuss their troubles with anxiety and panic in this unfocused advocacy documentary.
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‘Centurion: The Dancing Stallion’ Review: Romance on the Ranch
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A young woman training for a horse dancing competition confronts a medical crisis in this conventional family melodrama.
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‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ Review: The Life Aquatic
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This contribution to slow cinema observes the quiet routines of a captain and her crew as they sail a small boat across the Mediterranean.
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‘Tommy Guns’ Review: A Shape-Shifting Spectacle of Military Life
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Portuguese boys train for service in occupied Angola in Carlos Conceição’s drama, which incorporates elements of a ghost story.