NYT Critics' Picks

[lsanderson]

A Difficult Woman, With a Past Worth Writing About
‘Violette,’ About the French Author Violette Leduc
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Two Bands of True Believers Hurtling Toward a Collision
in ‘Policeman,’ From Israel, a Clash of Ideologies
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Grimly Staring in the Mirror, a Dancer in ’85
‘Test,’ Set in the Year H.I.V. Screening Arrived
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Truth as a Tinderbox That Must Disappear
‘Manuscripts Don’t Burn,’ About Repression in Iran
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Czech Pawns In a System That Stifled
‘Burning Bush,’ an Agnieszka Holland Film on Communism
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