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Meet the 2023 Cannes Jury: Brie Larson, Ruben Ostlund and More

This year’s jury choosing the winner of the Palme d’Or includes Brie Larson, Ruben Ostlund and Paul Dano.

‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’ Review: Hiding in Plain Sight

The “Back to the Future” star time-travels through his career in this documentary, charting his experiences learning to live with Parkinson’s disease.

‘Slava Ukraini’ Review: Tour of a War-Torn Nation

The French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy travels to different parts of Ukraine in this dispatch-documentary, shot in the second half of 2022.

Three Great Documentaries to Stream

This month’s picks spend time on farms, in a courtroom and with an artist-activist.

‘Those Who Remained’ Review: Managing Unimaginable Grief

Set in Hungary after World War II, this film concerns a doctor and a teenager seeking to fill the void left by the relatives they...

‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’ Review: The Nitty-Gritty Beyond ‘Tutti Frutti’

This documentary presents the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ’n’ roll” as a man of contradictions.

Wherever These Surgeries Went, the Camera Did, Too

In a radical experiment, the filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor sought a scalpel-level view of operations in French hospitals.

‘Honorable Men’ Review: The Trials of a Prime Minister

It would take an eight- or 10-hour mini-series to deal with all the issues this documentary raises about the legal travails of Ehud Olmert, the...

‘The Plains’ Review: Road to Somewhere

This experimental film pulls together excerpts from 11 evening commutes, as a man drives from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, toward the city’s center.

‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ Review: A Different Kind of Oil Boom

A book that proposed violent action in response to the climate crisis becomes a propulsive heist thriller.