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Nicole Newnham’s documentary charts the life and times of the feminist Shere Hite, whose pioneering research on women’s sexuality earned her both fame and notoriety.

This month’s picks include a comedic Swedish slasher, a Tunisian noir, an Austenian take on the Indian wedding melodrama and more.

In this unflinching documentary, a young girl in rural India and her father fight an entrenched village culture to seek justice for her brutal rape.

This month’s picks include an Argentine documentary about reproductive justice, an uproarious Tamil riff on superhero movies, a visual essay about Ireland and Britain, and...

This by-the-book documentary about Tom Wolfe, a pioneer of the New Journalism movement, can hardly match the stylistic flair that made the writer famous.

The French-language version of a 1971 documentary by Patricio Guzmán is an extraordinary document of a nation in transition.

This month’s picks include a Mexican resort thriller, a British time-travel caper and a coming-of-age drama from Costa Rica.

Set amid the upheaval of 1960s Indonesia, this drama tells the story of a woman caught in an unhappy marriage and haunted by the traumas...

Directed by Randall Park, this charming comedy about a Japanese American man’s belated coming-of-age touches upon fascinating questions of identity but fails to dig below...

This month’s picks include a bittersweet French comedy, a gutting Croatian social-realist drama, a Mexican true-crime doc and more.