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Top Picks

Do Not Resist

The film could not be timelier, and it offers answers to one of the most vital questions of our time—why are citizens being treated like enemy combatants?

Theo Who Lived

A vivid documentary about the two-year imprisonment of an American freelance journalist in war-torn Syria. A remarkable chronicle of empathy.

13th | NYFF 2016

With clarity and focus, Ava DuVernay traces a history of inequality that has resulted in the United States having the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Kicks

em>Kicks has a rich, magical realism that elevates it above the run-of-the-mill coming-of-age or gangland film

Danny Says

Like a transgressive Forrest Gump, Danny Fields is at the nexus of pretty much every major alternative moment in rock and roll from the 1960s to the ’80s.

Tanna

Australia’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar contender combines beautiful imagery and compelling human drama.

Closet Monster

Canadian writer-director Stephen Dunn’s first feature film offers a fresh take on that endangered genre—the coming-out tale.

Highlights | Toronto 2016

Some films to look forward to in the next few months, as well as impressions from the Toronto International Film Festival.

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

In 1998, four young San Antonio women were sentenced to 82.5 years in prison between them, on accusations that didn’t even rise to the level of baseless.