Streaming this week are some high-profile documentaries and docuseries, plus a few romantic movies to set the stage for Valentine’s Day.
First up, the Oscar-nominated documentary “All That Breathes,” from director Shaunak Sen, follows two brothers in New Dehli, India, who run a bird hospital caring for injured and ill hawks and other birds of prey, which they call kites. This poignant observational documentary takes the bird hospital as a point of specificity to talk about the issues of pollution and environmental disaster — the air pollution and smog cause these powerful birds to drop from the sky, signifying the potential hazards for all living creatures in this environment. Saving the birds is just one small action the brothers can take in the face of this existential and environmental crisis, and Shen’s beautifully restrained yet incredibly moving film contains so much within this story. Stream it starting today on HBO Max.
Premiering on Hulu Thursday, the docuseries “Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence” looks at the strange case of Larry Ray, the father of a student at Sarah Lawrence College who moved into his daughter’s house and began controlling the lives of her friends and roommates who fell under his influence. The story first broke in a 2019 article in New York Magazine, and in 2022 Ray was convicted of sex trafficking, extortion, conspiracy and other charges related to his decade of control over these young people. One of Ray’s survivors reached out to Oscar-nominated director Zachary Heinzerling (“Cutie and the Boxer”) to tell their side of the story from their point of view, and the result is the three-part docuseries. All three episodes premiere on Hulu on Thursday.
