‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Review: Oscar-Winning ‘Navalny’ Director Confronts His Hopes and Fears About Artificial Intelligence in  Lively Doc

‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Review: Oscar-Winning ‘Navalny’ Director Confronts His Hopes and Fears About Artificial Intelligence in Lively Doc

Artificial intelligence may be the ultimate moving target. By the time this film arrives it will probably already be out of date, one of the many experts in The AI Doc tells Daniel Roher. The technology is morphing that fast. Fortunately, the film’s directors, Roher and Charlie Tyrell, are less interested in the details of…

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‘Cookie Queens’ Review: Girl Scouts Hit the Streets to Sell the American Dream Via Baked Goods in Irresistible Doc

‘Cookie Queens’ Review: Girl Scouts Hit the Streets to Sell the American Dream Via Baked Goods in Irresistible Doc

At one point in Cookie Queens, a highly engaging documentary about four Girl Scouts selling cookies, the film’s smallest moppet, five-year-old Ara E., meets a prospective client who — given his diabetes — wonders if he should be buying cookies at all. Ara, who has type-1 diabetes herself, empathizes enthusiastically and later bakes some sugar-free…

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‘The Incomer’ Review: Domhnall Gleeson Gets Hurled Onto a Rocky Shore and Pelted With a Deluge of Aggressively Quaint Quirk

‘The Incomer’ Review: Domhnall Gleeson Gets Hurled Onto a Rocky Shore and Pelted With a Deluge of Aggressively Quaint Quirk

The British Isles can be treacherously vulnerable to twee overload in movies, though last year’s The Ballad of Wallis Island showed that it can be avoided, remaining a minor-key charmer even while it embraced every oddball eccentricity that writer-stars Tom Basden and Tim Key could concoct. Louis Paxton’s The Incomer is not so resilient. Set…

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‘GEN_’ Review: A Compassionate Portrait of an Italian Doctor Treating Trans Patients and Women Trying to Conceive

‘GEN_’ Review: A Compassionate Portrait of an Italian Doctor Treating Trans Patients and Women Trying to Conceive

In Italian director Gianluca Matarrese’s compassionate fly-on-the-wall documentary, GEN_, we’re introduced to a doctor specializing in two fields that, to some people, may seem almost diametrically opposed. As a seasoned endocrinologist working at Milan’s Niguarda hospital, Dr. Maurizio Bini runs both a busy fertility clinic and a department practicing gender-affirming surgery and hormonal treatment for…

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#‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: Carey Mulligan Adds Grace Notes but Tom Basden and Tim Key Provide the Melody to This Minor-Key Charmer

#‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: Carey Mulligan Adds Grace Notes but Tom Basden and Tim Key Provide the Melody to This Minor-Key Charmer

Nostalgia and the ache of moving on permeate every frame of The Ballad of Wallis Island, lending an air of precious sentimentality that threatens to slide into the saccharine. But James Griffiths’ tender comedy-drama also has a ton of heart, a generosity of spirit and an ultimately disarming sweetness that make it sneak up on…

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