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‘Framing Agnes’ Review: Transition, Center Stage

The documentarian Chase Joynt stages re-enactments of midcentury medical interviews with transgender people.

By Teo Bugbee

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‘Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power’ Review: A Movement That Changed America

With arresting interviews and archival footage, this documentary looks back at a 1960s voting-rights campaign in Alabama that gave rise to a national movement for Black power.

By Devika Girish

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‘2nd Chance’ Review: Just Shoot Me

Ramin Bahrani’s first documentary feature profiles Richard Davis, the irrepressible inventor of a modern bulletproof vest.

By Nicolas Rapold

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‘Tantura’ Review: Unearthing the Past

Revisiting a graduate thesis that caused controversy in Israel two decades ago, this documentary examines evidence of a possible massacre in 1948.

By Ben Kenigsberg