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Gary M. Kramer is a writer and film critic based in Philadelphia. Follow him on Twitter.

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MLK/FBI (IFC Films)

“MLK/FBI” director: “White men in power are frightened of losing their control of America”

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Vanessa Kirby in "Pieces of a Woman" (Netflix)

In “Pieces of a Woman,” Vanessa Kirby survives the worst in a heartbreaking, measured performance

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Michelle Dockery and Matthew McConaughey in "The Gentlemen" (STX Films)

From “Hillbilly Elegy” to “The Gentlemen,” here are the worst films of 2020

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Carey Mulligan in "Promising Young Woman" (Focus Features)

Revenge never tasted so deliciously venomous in the slick and twisty “Promising Young Woman”

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George Clooney and Caoilinn Springall in "The Midnight Sky" (Netflix)

With “Midnight Sky,” George Clooney directs a visually arresting post-apocalyptic yawnfest

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Helena Zengel and Tom Hanks in "News of the World" (Universal Pictures)

Tom Hanks’ “News of the World” is a toothless throwback Western

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Lovie Simone in "Selah and the Spades," Carrie Coon in "The Nest," Orion Lee in "First Cow" (Amazon, IFC Films, A24)

Here are 6 great film performances you missed in 2020 – and how to watch them

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America Ferrera in "Real Women Have Curves" (Nicola Goode/HBO)

Hollywood is still overlooking Latinx filmmakers: “My story matters, my pain matters”

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Diego Luna and Sienna Miller in "Wander Darkly" (Michael Moriatis/Lionsgate)

Diego Luna and Sienna Miller can’t figure out what’s real in the trippy, exhausting “Wander Darkly”

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Farewell Amor (IFC Films)

In “Farewell Amor,” separated immigrants reunite 17 years later for an imperfect American dream

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Aubrey Plaza in "Black Bear" (Momentum Pictures)

The surreal manipulation of “Black Bear,” a comic thriller with answers that “hover out of reach”

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Johnny Flynn as David Bowie in "Stardust" (IFC Films)

Wretched David Bowie biopic “Stardust” should be launched into the sun

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Tedy Ursuleanu in "Collective" (Magnolia Pictures)

“Collective” is an urgent exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back

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Red Heaven (Insignia Films)

Could you stay sane on Mars? Real-life mission simulator put six people to the test in “Red Heaven”

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Joel Kinnaman in "The Informer" (Thunder Road Pictures)

“The Informer” star on the “aggressive nature” of filming in prison

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The Donut King (Greenwich Entertainment)

The riveting saga of “The Donut King,” who was seduced by dough, money and power

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Jules Porier and Marta Nieto in "Madre" (Strand Releasing)

Unsettling “Madre” plays with perception of madness to examine a woman “clinging to the impossible”

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Danielle Zalopany in "Waikiki" (Island Film Group)

“Waikiki” filmmaker: “Hawai’i is marketed as a paradise . . . but things are only getting worse”

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Justin Chon in "Coming Home Again" (Outsider Pictures)

In Wayne Wang’s poignant “Coming Home Again,” a son cleaves to his dying mother by cooking galbi

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Jennifer Ho in "First Vote" (C35 Films/PBS World Channel)

From a gun-toting firebrand to a Southern professor, “First Vote” examines Asian American voters

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Linda Ronstadt in "Linda and the Mockingbirds" (HBO Max / Shout! Studios)

“Change immigration laws”: Linda Ronstadt reflects on her Mexican heritage & music in new film

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David Byrne's American Utopia (David Lee/HBO)

“David Byrne’s American Utopia” is a rousing, vibrant spectacular that rivals “Stop Making Sense”

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"The Last Ice": Inuit hunter Aleqatsiaq Peary looks out over sea ice near Qaanaaq, Greenland (National Geographic Society/Neil Gelinas)

In the stunning yet grim “The Last Ice,” melting glaciers and development threaten Inuit way of life

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Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges in "French Exit" (Tobias Datum/Sony Pictures Classics)

Michelle Pfeiffer brings sly elegance to the peculiar but charming “French Exit”

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