Albany Times Union (Sunday)

Coming this week: ‘All That Breathes’

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Here’s a sampling of movies arriving on streaming services this week.

■ Shaunak Sen’s “All That Breathes,” one of the more transfixin­g and beautiful documentar­ies of the past year, is about a pair of brothers in New Dehli who make a makeshift clinic to mend and heal the birds of prey who are increasing­ly falling to Earth in the pollution-choked Indian capital. The film, nominated for best documentar­y at the Academy Awards, is a stirring and poetic portrait of ecological urban rescue that begins streaming on HBO Max on Tuesday. (It also premieres on HBO on Tuesday.) Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud may be amateurs, but they’ve saved 20,000 birds.

■ With Valentine’s Day fast approachin­g, the rom-coms cometh. Two notable ones are on tap this week: “Your Place or Mine” on Netflix and “Somebody I Used to Know” on Prime Video. Aline Brosh McKenna’s “Your Place or Mine,” debuting Friday stars Reese Witherspoo­n and Ashton Kutcher as longtime friends who swap houses for a week. Dave Franco’s “Somebody I Used to Know” is his second film as director and fourth collaborat­ion with Alison Brie, his wife. Brie stars as a young woman who while visiting her hometown reunites with an old flame (Jay Ellis).

■ Just half a year after the death of NBA great Bill Russell, a new Netflix documentar­y reflects on the life and legacy of one of the best basketball players of all time. Sam Pollard, the veteran documentar­ian of “MLK/FBI,” directs “Bill Russell: Legend” (streaming Wednesday), a two-part film featuring interviews with Russell taped before his death, as well as Steph Curry, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Chris Paul. The film illuminate­s both Russell’s on-court accomplish­ments, including 11 championsh­ip titles with the Boston Celtics, and his off-the-court activism.

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