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A Liar’s Autobiography: Graham Chapman Is Still Dead
Bent on futzing with the form, this biopic bears the strong authorial stamp of its subject, but nonetheless…
Benjamin Mercer
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OC87: A Director Documents His Own OCD
A largely first-person documentary about living with a range of disorders, OC87 is also, in a sense, about…
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Elles: Juliette Binoche Is Curious About Hookers
As she prepares for a dinner party and fields rude dismissals from her two spoiled sons, journalist Anne…
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Bully: OK, We Get It: Bullying Is Wrong
Arriving in theaters on a wave of free publicity (its distributor, the Weinstein Company, butted heads with the…
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Four Lovers: An Open Marriage Goes Predictably Bad
Using a fluid naturalism to establish its afterglow vibe, Four Lovers follows two married couples as they swap…
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi: Yes, You’ll Be Hungry After This Doc
Tucked away in the basement of a Tokyo office building, in a drab corridor attached to a subway…
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Battle for Brooklyn: Gentrification and Its Discontents
Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley’s documentary recounts the tireless anti–Atlantic Yards efforts of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn co-founder…
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Happy, Happy: Seriocomedy From Norway
One miserable couple collides with another in this Norwegian cringe comedy. Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen), a chipper teacher of…
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Mr. Nice: The True Story of an English Drug Lord
As might be expected of a globe-hopping, decades-spanning drug-smuggler biopic, Mr. Nice commences by trying to induce a…
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Crime After Crime: Battered Women Behind Bars
On its face, the title is misleading. Crime After Crime sounds like a repeat-offender case study, but instead…