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Movie guide: 'What You Gonna Do …?' and Times critics' 15 best choices to watch at home

"What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?" - The Italian-born filmmaker Roberto Minervini makes movies about the lives of rural, working-class Americans ("Stop the Pounding Heart," "The Other Side") that blur the lines between documentary and art film. In the extraordinary, galvanizing "What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?" Minervini turns a sharp and unfailingly sympathetic eye on a black community in Louisiana, where his battered, resilient subjects include a bar owner, a pair of young brothers and a member of the New Black

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