

Natalia Winkelman
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‘Victim/Suspect’ Review: When the Accuser Becomes the Accused
A reporter investigates cases in which sexual assault survivors were arrested on charges of false reporting in this cogent documentary.

‘Butterfly Vision’ Review: A Ukrainian Soldier’s Lonely Struggle
A traumatized woman returns home from eastern Ukraine after being held captive by Russian separatists.

‘Museum of the Revolution’ Review: Sheltering in an Abandoned Utopia
This quiet documentary observes three unhoused women from different generations who live among the remains of an unfinished museum in Belgrade.

‘The Starling Girl’ Review: As the Spirit Moves
Eliza Scanlen plays a pious teenager who begins an affair with her youth pastor in this tender coming-of-age drama.

‘Anxious Nation’ Review: The Kids Aren’t All Right
Young people discuss their troubles with anxiety and panic in this unfocused advocacy documentary.

‘Centurion: The Dancing Stallion’ Review: Romance on the Ranch
A young woman training for a horse dancing competition confronts a medical crisis in this conventional family melodrama.

‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ Review: The Life Aquatic
This contribution to slow cinema observes the quiet routines of a captain and her crew as they sail a small boat across the Mediterranean.

‘Tommy Guns’ Review: A Shape-Shifting Spectacle of Military Life
Portuguese boys train for service in occupied Angola in Carlos Conceição’s drama, which incorporates elements of a ghost story.

‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: Girlhood, Interrupted
Lana Wilson’s documentary blossoms in moments of cultural commentary, where it builds a mood of reminiscence gone rancid.

‘Imagining the Indian’ Review: Fighting Offensive Imagery
This documentary, subtitled “The Fight Against Native American Mascoting,” argues that Native-themed sports team branding fits into a history of systemic racism.