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Screen Grabs: In stagey ‘Whale,’ Brendan Fraser is back as the guileless good guy

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Plus: The documentary-as-therapy 'Wildcat,' and John Waters' Odorama wafts into the Roxie.
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Director Laura Poitras is still making her own kind of explosions

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Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras used to live in San Francisco, where performance artist Mark Pauline was a neighbor and he and his Survival Research...
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Screen Grabs: Nancy in the House

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Daughter's doc may be softball, but conveys Pelosi's wild tenure. Plus: Xmas thrills in 'The Apology'
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Screen Grabs: 50 years ago, ‘Poseidon Adventure’ waved in a streak of disasters

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Plus: Pia Zamora in 'Voyage of the Rock Aliens,' latest 'Lost Landscapes' plumbs SF's possible futures, more movies
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Screen Grabs: 2022 shapes up to be Year of the Ass

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EO charms. Plus: A pleasant Lady Chatterley's Lover, insightful Empire of Light, and fondly satirical Leonor Will Never Die
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Screen Grabs: Don’t mess with brilliant, spitfire director Christine Choy

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From Tiananmen Square's dissident exiles to the roiling Mississippi Triangle, the driven filmmaker tackles deep subjects
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Screen Grabs: Violent twists on Ol’ Saint Nick

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Violent Night, Christmas Bloody Christmas, The Leech—even Jesus Christ Superstar—put some bang in the season
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Bringing love story ‘Spoiler Alert’ to the screen, through grief, chance, and friendship

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Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge talk about starring in Michael Ausiello's true-life tale of losing his partner
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Screen Grabs: A great artist takes the opioid-peddling Sackler Family to task

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Plus: Ukrainian benefit at Other Cinema, left-field twists in 'Nr. 10,' an aspirational Indian rapper goes bad in 'Four Samosas.'
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Nikyatu Jusu mines the precarity of immigrant labor for terror in ‘Nanny’

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"If every domestic worker stopped working tomorrow, a lot of people's lives would fall apart in this capitalistic system," the director says.

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