NYT Critic’s Pick Movie(s)

The Territory
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG | Documentary | Directed by Alex Pritz
This documentary is a thrilling look at an Indigenous group’s fight to keep illegal settlers from destroying their land in the Amazon rainforest.


Bitaté, the young leader of the Uru Eu Wau Wau, in “The Territory.”
By CLAIRE SHAFFER

Three Minutes: A Lengthening
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG | Documentary | Directed by Bianca Stigter
Using footage from a three-minute amateur movie shot in 1938, this rousing documentary about a Jewish town in Poland is a haunting meditation on the memory of the Holocaust.


Footage from the three-minute home movie that serves as the basis for the documentary “Three Minutes: A Lengthening.”
By BEATRICE LOAYZA

— Of Possible Interest —

El tiempo perdido
Documentary, Biography, History | Directed by María Alvarez
This cozy documentary sits in with a group of older readers in Buenos Aires who gather at a cafe to savor Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.”
By NICOLAS RAPOLD

The Legend of Molly Johnson
Drama, History, Thriller, Western | Directed by Leah Purcell
A stoic frontier woman harbors an Aboriginal fugitive in this earnest and didactic western.
By TEO BUGBEE