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Screen Grabs: Two deeply different narratives of sex work in ‘Working Girls’ and ‘Medusa’

Plus: Saudi Arabian feminist mythology soars in 'Scales' and 'Dachra's creepy atmospherics.

Screen Grabs: Final chapter of ‘Purge’ series is an eerie echo of modern chaos

'The Forever Purge' is not subtle. But then, we are not living in gently-nuanced cultural times.

Screen Grabs: Recalling that very oddball cinematic year, 1971

What's in theaters—then and now. Plus" 'I Carry You With Me,' 'Scenes from an Empty Church,' more

Screen Grabs: ‘Zola’ takes a wild ride from tweets to theaters

Plus: New docs 'A Crime in the Bayou,' 'Truman and Tennesee,' and 'Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over'

Screen Grabs: Kenny Scharf doc explores irrepressible art star’s colorful ride

Plus: A Macedonian-Belgian-Slovenian-Croatian-French women's empowerment tale, the farcical howls of 'Werewolves Within,' more

Screen Grabs: Hot enough? Splash into a sexy, murderous French classic

Plus: psychedelia two ways, a literal comedy horror, and 'the most melancholic gay porn movie ever'

Screen Grabs: Black Film Festival lifts off—and other stratospheric releases

The best of the new, from the surveilling of surveillance in 'All Light, Everywhere' to 'Les Norte' and its discomfiting coming-of-age twists

Screen Grabs: A creaky gay ‘Sublet’ and a heady lesbian ‘Curve’

Plus: 'Holler' shines through strong performances; 'In the Crosswinds' too pretty for tragedy

Frameline Fest puts Pride onscreen, from laptop to Jumbotron

Senior lesbian rockers, baby drag queens, and Bay Area transgender heroes shine in 45th LGBTQ film showcase

Screen Grabs: A lost Romero gem portrays elder abuse horrors

Plus more scary situations in Caveat, Censor, The Retreat, and Skull: The Mask