

Devika Girish
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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...

Five International Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks include a Bollywood murder mystery, an elliptical Portuguese documentary, a Chinese drama about gay hustlers and more.

‘In Her Hands’ Review: A Young Woman’s Resolve as Life Unravels
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton executive produced this documentary, which follows a young Afghan mayor as she navigates upheavals wrought by the Taliban’s return to power.

‘Sam & Kate’ Review: It’s a Family Affair
Darren Le Gallo’s drama stars two real-life parent-child duos — Dustin and Jake Hoffman, and Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk — as lonely small-towners looking...

Review: In ‘You Resemble Me,’ a Maladjusted Girl Is Interrupted
Dina Amer’s film uses empathetic, if simplistic, fictions to try to make sense of the complicated real life of a young Moroccan-French woman drawn to...

‘Holy Spider’ Review: Brutality Tale
Like many a serial-killer drama, this movie about a real-life Iranian murderer who targeted prostitutes is a grisly thriller parading as a morality tale.

Five International Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks include a postmodern Tamil rom-com, a stylish period drama from Vietnam, an Argentine film about a writer undergoing a creative crisis and...

‘Face’ Review: Close Encounters
Commissioned by the Louvre, the film brings together two of cinema’s unforgettable faces, Lee Kang-sheng and Jean-Pierre Léaud.