

Natalia Winkelman
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‘Girls State’ Review: One Nation, Under Girls
Balancing confidence with broad smiles, the high school students in this documentary understand that camaraderie goes hand in hand with political ambition.

‘Asphalt City’ Review: Arbiters of Life and Death
Sean Penn plays a flinty paramedic showing a rookie the ropes in this maddening drama about emergency medical workers in New York.

‘Stormy’ Review: Trials and Travails
A new documentary on Stormy Daniels traces how fame, frenzy and legal battles involving a former president upended her life.

‘Cabrini’ Review: Embarking on a Pious Mission
From the team behind “Sound of Freedom,” this biopic of an Italian nun in 19th-century New York City is stuffed with sanctimonious speeches.

‘Shayda’ Review: Finding Refuge in Community
This stirring film from Noora Niasari follows an Iranian woman and her daughter living in a women’s shelter in Australia.

‘Veselka’ Review: Serving Up Support for Ukraine
Subtitled “The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World,” this documentary offers a warm tribute to an East Village landmark.

‘Upgraded’ Review: Faking It That She’s Made It
Camila Mendes plays a broke assistant posing as an art world bigwig in this slyly charming romantic comedy.

‘Drift’ Review: Cynthia Erivo Keeps a Breakdown at Bay
Anthony Chen’s quiet character study follows a traumatized Liberian woman (Cynthia Erivo) on a Greek island who befriends an American tour guide (Alia Shawkat).

‘Fitting In’ Review: Her Body, Herself
Maddie Ziegler plays a teen who is diagnosed with a rare reproductive condition in this movie that tends toward the obvious.

‘The Peasants’ Review: A Village Rendered in Oils
The filmmakers DK and Hugh Welchman apply a painstaking oil painting technique to render this sweeping drama set in a 19th century Polish village.