This portrait of the musician Jon Batiste and the author Suleika Jaouad follows an artistic couple through ambition and adversity.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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‘Who We Become’ Review: Interrogating Identity and Injustice
Three young Filipino women self-document difficult conversations with their families and friends during the first year of the pandemic.
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‘Bad Press’ Review: Defending Journalism in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation
The battle to claw back press freedoms is the nerve-racking subject of this civic-minded documentary.
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Suleika Jaouad Revisits Bone Marrow Transplant in “American Symphony”
This month, writer Suleika Jaouad revisits her second bone marrow transplant in the documentary “American Symphony.”
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Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Film: 4 Takeaways From the Premiere
The star skipped the red carpet and slipped into the celebrity-filled screening on Saturday night. But the movie pulls back the curtain — a little.
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‘Against the Tide’ Review: Tales of the Sea
Sarvnik Kaur’s breathtaking documentary about Indigenous fishermen in Mumbai brings to life an ecosystem wrecked by corporate greed and climate change.
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‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’ Review: Women, Uninterrupted
In Anna Hints’s bewitching documentary, Estonian smoke saunas beget a sweaty purification process — one that’s revealed to be more than skin deep.
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‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros’ Review: A Beautiful Collaboration
For his 44th documentary, Frederick Wiseman journeys to the French countryside to examine the workings of a family-owned, Michelin-starred restaurant.
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‘Stamped From the Beginning’ Review: Examining Racist Thought
The documentary, based on Ibram X. Kendi’s 2016 book, looks at the ugly history of anti-Black ideology.
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The Best True Crime to Stream: Family Matters
Four picks from television, films and podcasts that show blood is not always thicker than water.
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‘Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later’ Review: Trailblazers Revisited
This documentary from Daniel Peddle offers an update on the transmasculine people of color who participated in ballroom culture in the 1990s.
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‘JFK: What the Doctors Saw’ Review: A Clinical Take
Barbara Shearer’s documentary unpacks the medical opinions of physicians who treated John F. Kennedy in Dallas.