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Screen Grabs: A stricken hero fights for better healthcare in ‘Not Going Quietly’

Plus a slew of affecting new docs on Barbara Lee, immigration tragedy, arthouse beginnings, and celebrity worship.

Drag legend Terence Alan Smith takes center stage in ‘The Beauty President’

As Joan Jett Blakk, the performer made two historic runs for president. A new short film asks what could have been.

Screen Grabs: ‘Homeroom’ dives deep into a crisis-riven Oakland school year

Plus: Infamous '90s ambulance-chasing in 'Whirlybird' and a great free documentary series at BAMPFA outdoors

Screen Grabs: Folly and excess in ‘Annette’ and ‘Nine Days’

But a moving 'Ailey' gripping 'Sabaya,' and poignant 'What We Left Unfinished.' This week's new movies!

From ‘Edge of Seventeen’ to ‘Swan Song,’ a queer director salutes Sandusky

Rounding out a trilogy of semi-autobiographical Ohio tales, Todd Stephens' latest memorializes a senior drag legend.

Screen Grabs: Perilous quests in ‘The Green Knight’ and ‘Stillwater’

Plus: complex Son of Monarchs, redemptive Fireboys, and a beautiful, bummer Casanova

New doc ‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ asks why wildfires just keep growing

Filmmaker Lucy Walker examines the tragic, recent damage—and finds there's more to blame than climate change

Screen Grabs: How ‘The Panic in Needle Park’ changed drug movies

The 1971 film mixed stark realism with post-hippie disillusionment. Plus: Lorelei, Tailgate, No Ordinary Man, more

Screen Grabs: Another vital public film program axed—for what?

SFMOMA's hatchet job. Plus reviews of Blood Red Sky, Old, Charlatan, Mandibles, more

Screen Grabs: Tracking a social media monster in ‘Sweat’

Plus: A trainwreck Val Kilmer self-documentary that still rivets, a stylish goof in homage to a Dominican legend