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Your Weekly Roundup of New Movies: “RK/RKAY” Is a Wonderful Meditation on What Happens When a Director Is Drawn Too Deeply Into His Art What to see and skip while streaming or going to the theater. (RK-RKAY Outsider Pictures)
RK/RKAY Mahboob is a fictional character, but that doesn’t stop him from making real-life mayhem in this cheeky comedy from Indian filmmaker Rajat Kapoor. Kapoor stars as RK, a somber visionary who directs himself in a film about Mahboob, a mustachioed romantic who is murdered in a forest. Rather than face his morbid fate, Mahboob hails a taxi that inexplicably transports him out of the film and into RK’s life, where he pleads for his creator to spare him.
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Your Weekly Roundup of New Movies: “Limbo’s” Unforced Comedy Is Remarkably Shrewd Yet Innocent What to see and skip while streaming at home or going to the theater. (TIFF)
Limbo Syrian refugee Omar won’t pluck his oud (an 11-stringed Middle Eastern lute) outside his home country. It doesn’t sound right on Scottish soil, he says. Given the natural acoustics, who could blame him? Omnipresent in U.K. director Ben Sharrock’s spare comedy are the oppressive gusts and rumbling waves of this Scottish isle, creating a sensorial conundrum for asylum seekers like Omar awaiting their papers. The wild, whistling remoteness all around is a prison of freedom. All the while, Omar (Amir El-Masry) hauls his encased oud around “like a coffin for [his] soul,” teases flatmate Farhad (Vikash Bhai), exemplifying
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Your Weekly Roundup of New Movies: In the New HBO Documentary “Our Towns,” Bend is Portrayed as an Economic Success Story What to see and skip in theaters or while streaming. (HBO)
Our Towns When journalists Deborah and James Fallows conclude their new HBO documentary in Bend, the Central Oregon hub is held up as a beacon, having reinvented itself into a year-round tourist destination after weathering the 1980s timber crash. Evolving municipal identity runs through all eight profiles in
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Your Weekly Roundup of New Movies: Oscar Nominee “Do Not Split” Presents Gripping Reportage of Hong Kong’s Past Two Years What to see and skip while heading out to the theaters or streaming at home. Movies Do-Not-Split (Shorts TV) Updated April 20 at 9:00 PM
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Do Not Split Frontline crisis journalism has long been a staple of the Oscars’ Best Documentary (Short Subject) category. Unmercifully, the world never quits offering new topics. While Portlander Skye Fitzgerald’s