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Emma Seligman’s painfully tense debut watches on as a college student finds herself trapped by prying family and friends at a wake. The director speaks about millennial-boomer conflicts, being influenced by Cassavetes, and only turning to her Jewish comedic Rolodex selectively.
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Lisey’s Story gives an author’s grieving wife fantasies and nightmares
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Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) summons a ghost of queer past for high school advice
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Shiva Baby sees a young Jewish woman’s secret life unravel during a funeral
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The Father is a painfully potent depiction of mental deterioration
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