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Big Boys

One of the most cringeworthy and accurate films of adolescence since Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade.

Firebrand

An uneven period drama about the Tudor monarch’s final spouse that plays fast and loose with the historical record.

Copa 71

A rousing and absorbing look back at a phenomenon that quickly crested and just as quickly disappeared.

Birder

An erotic, queer serial killer movie in the tradition Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake and William Friedkin’s Cruising.

Queendom

The life of Jenna Marvin, a queer performance artist from Russia, is captured in this bold and sobering documentary.

Hit Man

Richard Linklater’s latest is a lot of things at once, and each one of them is excellent.

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

The documentary doesn’t shy away from Lynes’s sublime nude photography, rather it ravishes in it, as if to visually reclaim a suppressed history.

The Contestant

The bizarre 1998 Japanese phenomenon that established the template for reality TV in the 21st century.

Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill

Why isn’t this singer-songwriter more well known today? This is the question the documentary sets out to answer.