Queen of Hearts
Featuring a liar whose gaslighting, imperious denials, and finger-pointing make her the equal of any man trying to avoid responsibility for fouling the family nest.
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Tell Me Who I Am
Dank, dirty family secrets bubble to the surface in this examination of a bond gone awry between identical twins.
Sister Aimee
A whimsical road movie with runaway evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, the 1920s holy roller.
Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins
Janice Engel’s energizing documentary plays up the happy-warrior side of the columnist’s life and output while allowing for glimpses of the darkness that underscored them both.
Vita & Virginia
If it cannot quite convey the emotional and intellectual excitement of a forbidden love affair, Chanya Button’s film attractively showcases it.
Jay Myself
One more lament to a vanishing Old New York gets a welcome shot of astringency, thanks to photographer Jay Maisel’s gruffness and eccentricity.
I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians
A cockeyed, brilliant, and surreal comedy about Holocaust denial. Apparently this phenomenon is thriving in contemporary Romanian life and thought.
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
Ostensibly an elegy to the romance between troubadour/lothario Leonard Cohen and his 1960s girlfriend/muse Marianne Ihlen.