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‘2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Films’ Review: Small Bites’
From animated partygoers to real families embracing a name, this basket of goodies includes seven titles, among them comedy, tragedy and documentary.

‘A Woman Escapes’ Review: Screen Sharing
In this moody epistolary film, a woman in Paris works through a close friend’s death with the help of video correspondences.

Filmmakers Sometimes Take a Years-Long Approach to Documentaries
Three films showing at the Tribeca Festival tell stories over several years, a challenge for the filmmakers and the subjects.

‘The Night of the 12th’ Review: When a Case Doesn’t Close
This refreshingly grounded French crime procedural portrays what happens when a brutal murder case eludes the diligent efforts of a by-the-book investigator.

‘Fool’s Paradise’ Review: No Talent? No Problem!
A hapless man who barely speaks becomes a movie star in Charlie Day’s scattershot Hollywood satire.

‘Freaks vs. the Reich’ Review: Band of Others
This big-hearted, blithely odd adventure pits a troupe of superpowered circus folk against a psychic Nazi pianist.

‘Plan 75’ Review: Leaving Early
In this quietly bold debut feature, the Japanese government offers a euthanasia program and a 78-year-old woman considers her future.

The Steps to Making ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’
The filmmakers and cast of “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” explain what it took to quickly, but precisely, put together their indie tale of...

‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ Review: Showing What We’re Made Of
This eye-opening film from Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor immerses us in the landscapes and textures of the human body, as encountered in French hospitals.

‘Sam Now’ Review: When Mom Leaves
Sensitive and surprising, Reed Harkness’s documentary follows the reverberations in his family after their mother abruptly departs.