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‘THE SOCIAL DILEMMA,’ ‘I AM WOMAN’ AND ‘THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY’ AMONG TOP MOVIES COMING THIS WEEK

- By Peter Debruge Variety

Audiences’ choices are limited as movie theaters in additional markets reopen this weekend, with only one new studio release, “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” joining highprofil­e holdovers “Tenet,” “The New Mutants” and “Unhinged” on megaplex marquees.

Meanwhile, limited releases are getting better exposure than usual, as indies and docs (such as “All In: The Fight for Democracy” about voter disenfranc­hisement and Stacey Abrams’ recent non-election) grab screens that might normally be crowded by blockbuste­rs.

Streaming services HBO Max and Netflix are keeping subscriber­s flush with options. For those worried about what all that screen time is doing to their heads, Netflix serves up eyeopening doc “The Social Dilemma,” one of the better-reviewed films out of Sundance.

Here’s a rundown of those

films opening this week.

In theaters “The Broken Hearts Gallery”

Lucy (Geraldine Viswanatha­n) is a soulfully flip 26-year-old New York art gallery assistant with a problem. She’s so invested in her romantic relationsh­ips that each time one of them ends, she holds onto the mementos from it. She’s a hoarder of lost-love nostalgia. Director Natalie Krinsky has a witty and spirited commercial voice. Watching the film, you know you’re seeing an unabashed spawn of “Girls” and “Sex and the City,” a kind of anthropolo­gical Williamsbu­rg careerist rom-com set, in this case, in a woke wonderland of post-feminist awareness.

“All In: The Fight for Democracy”

This documentar­y has been constructe­d around the 2018 race for governor in Georgia, where the Democrat, Stacey

Abrams, who would have been the first African American woman elected governor in the U.S., lost by a thin margin to Brian Kemp, the Republican Secretary of State. But Kemp wasn’t just running for office. He was overseeing the election.

“All In” uses what went on in Georgia as a prototype for what could happen in the upcoming presidenti­al election. One of the film’s overwhelmi­ng themes is that voter suppressio­n works.

 ?? GEORGE KRAYCHYK/SONY-TRISTAR PICTURES ?? Utkarsh Ambudkar, left, and Geraldine Viswanatha­n in “The Broken Hearts Gallery.”
GEORGE KRAYCHYK/SONY-TRISTAR PICTURES Utkarsh Ambudkar, left, and Geraldine Viswanatha­n in “The Broken Hearts Gallery.”
 ?? TRANSMISSI­ON FILMS ?? Tilda Cobham-Hervey as Helen Reddy, who in 1966 landed in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase and $230 in her pocket in “I Am Woman.”
TRANSMISSI­ON FILMS Tilda Cobham-Hervey as Helen Reddy, who in 1966 landed in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase and $230 in her pocket in “I Am Woman.”

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