Room 237
(MPI Home Video, $28)
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Call Me Kuchu
(Docurama, $30)
Yes, there are still places where you can go to prison just for knowing someone who’s homosexual, said NPR.org. This “horrific and uplifting” documentary is, in part, a profile of the first openly gay man in Uganda and the brave activists he led. “It becomes a privilege to know them all.”
Iron Man 3
(Disney, $30)
This comic-book-inspired sequel features one of Robert Downey Jr.’s “most nuanced performances” yet, said Salon.com. Reprising his role as a billionaire who’s built his own superhero suit, Downey manages to give us all a story about an overgrown boy struggling to become a man.
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Book reviews: ‘Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity’ and ‘Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice’feature An examination of humanity in the face of “the Machine” and a posthumous memoir from one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, who recently died by suicide
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Why has America’s economy gone K-shaped?Today's Big Question The rich are doing well. Everybody else is scrimping.
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Democrats: Falling for flawed outsidersfeature Graham Platner’s Senate bid in Maine was interrupted by the resurfacing of his old, controversial social media posts
