New Movies to Watch This Week: ‘The Half of It,’ ‘All Day and a Night,’ ‘Ema’

New movies to watch this week: TheHalfOfIt, AllDayandaNight, Ema

Ellie Chu is a small-town Cyrano, with a twist, in Netflix original “The Half of It,” which could well be the most literary high school movie to come along in the short lives of its adolescent audience — and not just because writer-director Alice Wu was loosely inspired by a late-19th-century French play that most teens won’t have read .

“The Half of It” qualifies as literary because it loves language; it relishes reading, respects writing and believes in the power of words to make skeptics fall in love. — Peter DebrugeTracing the contours and reversals of an ugly legal affair that initially saw underage sex worker Cyntoia Brown sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an adult predator, Daniel H. Birman’s documentary is most rewarding when it focuses on messy human complexities over chilly courtroom process.

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