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‘Lonesome’ Review: Using Sex, Finding Intimacy
The Australian filmmaker Craig Boreham’s drama credibly depicts characters who feel most comfortable communicating through sex.

‘Sweetheart’ Review: A Seaside Crush
In this British coming-of-age film, a young lesbian stumbles through some important firsts.

‘Body Parts’ Review: Even Sex Scenes Have Rules
The documentary features performers and filmmakers discussing onscreen nudity and sex, but offers little on the subject of sexual exploitation.

‘Kompromat’ Review: Escape From Siberia
In this thriller, a French diplomat takes to the road after being falsely imprisoned by Russian authorities.

‘Nostalgia’ Review: Leave Now and Never Come Back
The Italian director Mario Martone creates an expressive, economic depiction of crime and longing in this drama about a man coming home to Naples.

‘The Seven Faces of Jane’ Review: One Movie, Eight Directors
Gillian Jacobs’s blank slate protagonist floats through a series of encounters in this feature-length movie made up of short films.

‘Nelly & Nadine’ Review: An Unlikely Love, an Unlikely Record
A family archive provides intimate records of a love affair that began between two women imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

‘To the End’ Review: Seeing Red While Left on Read
This documentary follows climate activists and politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as they lobby for the Green New Deal.

‘Framing Agnes’ Review: Transition, Center Stage
The documentarian Chase Joynt stages re-enactments of midcentury medical interviews with transgender people.

‘Flaming Ears’ Review: A Madcap Paradise Restored
A German experimental feature from the 1990s presents a post-apocalyptic world as an artist’s utopia.