Our critics recommend the documentaries, genre pieces, and literary studies to seek out at the sprawling-as-usual fest

With William Friedkin’s long-controversial thriller screening this week at the Quad, we look back at its turbulent legacy

“Netflix will neither save nor destroy cinema. But its growing dominance demands that those who think about movies critically hold two thoughts in their heads at once.”

Giving monopoly power to a company with a proven thirst to use it? We might need more than the Avengers to save us this time