WorldPingNew York film festival: the director has made a fascinating and troubling companion piece to her Netflix documentary 13th, which takes a fiery look at American injustice It feels at once like the blink of an eye and an eternity since Ava DuVernay’s d…
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14th review – Ava DuVernay’s galvanizing documentary is a remarkable achievement
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WorldPingThe movie, I’m pleased to report, exerts the same kind of historical/topical force that "13th" did. DuVernay, while she works in an extremely accessible and mainstream way, has a singular gift for making the nuances of history come alive.
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WorldPing14th, the documentary directed by Ava DuVernay that premiered Friday night as the closing-night film of the New York Film Festival, begins with several American presidents taking the oath of office: FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan… e…
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Premiering at the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker's follow-up to her '13th' tackles birthright citizenship, the Equal Protection Clause and the undoing of the gains of Reconstruction.
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Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has described the film, which got a standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, as part of “global antisemitic incitement.”…
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WorldPingA new systematic review, published by Cochrane, has found a direct “dose-response” relationship between the number prescriptions for certain drugs and the amount of free meals given to doctors.
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