This is fast being called the year of documentaries... and these are the must- watches...

THE BLEEDING EDGE Medical devices have provided immeasurable benefits to mankind, and yet the industry’s increasing recklessness with regard to innovation— and to bringing new products to market — is incisively highlighted in this alarming documentary by director Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering. The dangers of medical intervetion go deeper into Essure ( a permanent feminine birth-cont, to many first person account, watch it this one. THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

Tim Wardle’s true story deserves the designation “incredible”— not to mention “horrifying.” In 1980, Bobby Shafran arrived at his upstate New York community college to learn that he had a twin brother, Eddie Galland. That crazy situation became even crazier when Bobby and Eddie were contacted by David Kellman, who also looked like them. It was a miraculous headline- making reunion. But it also revealed a decades- old mystery that was soon investigated by both their parents and a curious, committed journalist. MINDING THE GAP A brilliant documentary, this film exposes the difficulties of growing up in an environment that only offers kids awful male role models. Yet, at the same time, it celebrates the liberating euphoria of setting one’s problems aside, however briefly, to hop on a skateboard and coast down parking garage ramps and empty streets. WHITNEY

Unlike Showtime’s subtitled

Can I Be Me doc, Kevin Macdonald’s deep dive into the singer’s all- too- brief existence has been approved by her estate. Though somewhat tame and only mildly obtrusive for the most part, the film uses its final act to drop a bomb. A massive, heartbreaking bomb.