David Bianculli

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Our film critic, Justin Chang, says the best documentary he's seen this year is a five-and-a-half-hour film called My Undesirable Friends Part One, last air in Moscow.

Filmed over several months in late 2021 and early 2022, it follows several independent journalists in Moscow as they deal with the fallout of Vladimir Putin's crackdown on reporters and Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine.

My Undesirable Friends received a Gotham Award nomination for Best Documentary and is playing at select venues around the country.

Here is Justin's review.

Justin Chang is a film critic for The New Yorker.

He reviewed My Undesirable Friends, Part 1, last air in Moscow.

You can find a list of where you can see the film on the website argopictures.com.

That's A-R-G-O-T pictures dot com.

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He talks about creating more than a thousand looks to tell the story of Wicked for Good.

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