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Rogers, so generous and so concerned
with the welfare of others—particularly
children—could ever have existed.
He’s one of those rare people who
demonstrably left the world a better
place. Little wonder people leave this
movie feeling at least a little better too.
RBG seems to have a similar
galvanizing efect on audiences by
parting the curtain on Ginsburg, a rather
private igure who has recently become
a hero to young women. It also makes
the case, subtly, for bipartisan unity.
Ginsburg and her late Supreme Court
colleague Antonin Scalia disagreed
vehemently on judicial issues, but clearly
had a blast hanging out. One of this doc’s
signature visuals is a photograph of the
two of them in India, waving and smiling
while perched on an elephant.
Summer 2018 has also graced us
withMcQueen, Ian Bonhôte and Peter
Ettedgui’s moving portrait of the late
designer Alexander McQueen;The King,
from Eugene Jarecki, a bracing essay ilm
linking the rise and fall of Elvis Presley
with America’s own ups and downs; and
Wim Wenders’Pope Francis: A Man of
His Word, about a man who, in the vein of
Rogers, stands strong against the cruelty
and thoughtlessness that tears at the
fabric of our world.
Streaming services are part of this
documentary groundswell too. Netlix
has long been a platform for viewers
to catch up with documentaries they
may have missed in theaters. But the
service also produces documentaries
of its own, like the recentRecovery
Boys,focusing on four men struggling
to overcome opioid abuse. And when
it comes to one of the loveliest, most
wrenching documentaries of this
summer, you have a choice:Minding
the Gap, the debut ilm from director
Bing Liu, is playing in theaters—but
you can also watch it on Hulu. Set in
the Rust Belt city of Rockford, Ill.,
the ilm tells the story of three young
skateboarders, one of whom is Bing
himself, from adolescence to adulthood.
This gorgeous ilm, a snapshot of what
it’s like to be young in a forgotten corner
of today’s America, deserves to be seen
big, but in a pinch your television or
laptop will do. The most human stories
always feel big, even if the pictures have
gotten smaller. □

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TIME’S WEEKLY TAKE

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Aston Martin is

producing 25

re-creations of the

1964 DB5 driven

by Sean Connery

in the James Bond

filmGoldfinger that

will sport the car’s

famous revolving

license plate as well

as other spy gadgets.

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Billionaire Boys Club,

the irst movie to

feature Kevin Spacey

since multiple people

accused him of

sexual misconduct,

earned just $618

from a total of

11 theaters in its

opening weekend.