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The documentary “The Boys in Red Hats” revisits the Jan. 18, 2019 encounter at the Lincoln Memorial between a group of teenage boys from Kentucky’s all-male Covington Catholic High School — in Washington for the March for Life — and a 64-year-old Native American activist and veteran Nathan Phillips, beating a drum. A short video of the faceoff between a smiling student, Nick Sandmann, wearing a Make American Great Again hat, and Phillips went viral, drawing widespread condemnation for what one of the film’s subjects calls “the smirk heard round the world.” A longer video subsequently surfaced that added nuance and context to the way the encounter was originally characterized — and some adjustments to early reporting, although not enough to prevent Sandmann’s family from filing defamation lawsuits against The Washington Post and other news outlets. (The Post settled its case last year, for undisclosed terms.) Think you know how you feel about the incident, 2½ years later? This film might cause you to question your assumptions, regardless of your interpretation of events. That’s genuinely surprising, considering that filmmaker Jonathan Schroder, a graduate of Cov Cath, as the school is familiarly known, declares his intention to try to exonerate Sandmann and his classmates against accusation of taunting and disrespect. (After watching the longer video, Schroder says he did “a 180” from initial outrage at the boys’ behavior to defending them.) “Boys,” however, is genuinely balanced, as it turns out, giving ample voice to those who disagree with Schroder: among them journalist Anne Branigin, formerly of the Root, and now with The Post’s the Lily. Schroder is a little sloppy though: Branigin’s name is misspelled on-screen, and he lets a lawyer for some Covington Catholic families go unchallenged when the attorney incorrectly identifies comedian Sarah Beattie — who posted an offensive tweet about Sandmann, since deleted — as a writer for “Saturday Night Live.” And his Michael Moore-like focus on himself and his evolving thought process is the least interesting thing about this film. Yet he makes an excellent larger point: That the Covington Catholic incident is, at the root, a prism through which it’s easy to see the various bubbles we increasing are trapped inside — MAGA teens, lefties and everyone in between — and how our refusal to venture outside of them is unhealthy. Unrated. Available at themiracletheatere.com. Contains crude language. 87 minutes.
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Rosalynde LeBlanc
The final toss during a performance of “D-Man in the Waters,” from the film “Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and ‘D-Man in the Waters.’ ”
The documentary “Can You Bring it: Bill T. Jones and ‘D-Man in the Waters’ ” explores the creation and legacy of choreographer-dancer-director Bill T. Jones’s 1989 ballet “D-Man in the Waters,” created in response to the AIDS epidemic. “What happens to a work of art when time displaces it from its original context, and from the impetus that inspired it? That’s a question that can elicit dry theories,” the New York Times writes. But here, according to the Times, the answer is “passionate and moving.” Unrated. Available at virtualavalon.org. 90 minutes.
IFC Films
IFC Films
The movie poster from the film “Enemies of the State.”
Executive-produced by Errol Morris, the documentary “Enemies of the State” explores the twisty, sometimes shocking case of Matt DeHart, an activist hacker with ties to WikiLeaks and the Anonymous collective and a former Air National Guard member whose home was raided in 2010 on child pornography charges. Variety calls the film a “mind-boggling, often challenging spy-thriller in documentary form, about a freaky and disturbing yarn of (possible) cybercrime activities investigated by insatiable journalistic curiosity, though not always with a lucid destination in sight.” Unrated. Available on demand. 104 minutes.
Sincerely Films
Sincerely Films
Photos of Del Close, who is the subject of the documentary “For Madmen Only.”
Featuring appearances by Matt Walsh, James Urbaniak, Patton Oswalt, Jason Sudeikis, Tim Meadows, Jason Mantzoukas, Ike Barinholtz, Paul Scheer and more, “For Madmen Only” is a documentary portrait of the late, influential improv teacher and comedy guru Del Close (1934-1999), known for mentoring a Who’s Who of comic actors. “An eye-opener for anyone unfamiliar with this family-tree of improv — in which Bob Odenkirk, Adam McKay and Amy Poehler are all related to Elaine May and Bill Murray — it’s a funny and poignant look at a man to whom comedy nerds owe an incalculable debt,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. Unrated. Available on Apple TV and Altavod. 87 minutes.
Vertical Entertainment
Jena Malone, left, and Pablo Schreiber in “Lorelei.”
After 15 years in prison, a man (Pablo Schreiber) re-connects with an ex (Jena Malone), who is now a single mother with three kids, in the drama “Lorelei.” The Hollywood Reporter says, “A shaky narrative is given ballast by two vivid and well-matched leads in Sabrina Doyle’s exasperating, sporadically touching feature debut.” Unrated. Available on demand. 110 minutes.
David Bloomer
Netflix
Christina Milian in “Resort to Love.”
In the rom-com “Resort to Love,” an aspiring pop singer (Christina Milian) finds herself, after a career meltdown, hired as the entertainment for the island wedding of her ex-fiance (Jay Pharoah, formerly of “Saturday Night Live.”). TV-14. Available on Netflix. 101 minutes.
Mark Barnfield
Saban Films/Lionsgate
Rafferty Law in “Twist.”
Loosely inspired by Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist,” the contemporary crime thriller “Twist” follows a London graffiti artist (Rafferty Law, son of Jude Law) and his relationship with Fagin (Michael Caine), the paternal leader of a criminal street gang and former art dealer planning a heist. “And so we are in caper-theft territory, with people disguising themselves as police officers, lowering themselves into lifts from a hole in a ceiling, spray painting over CCTV cameras and pinching Old Masters,” says the Guardian. “This movie’s not unlikable, but the action and comedy are under par.” R. Available on demand. Contains some violence and coarse language. 90 minutes.
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