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‘In the Same Breath’ Review: Nanfu Wang’s Disquieting Look at the Early Days of COVID in Wuhan

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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticNow that we’re a year into the pandemic (and have a presidential administration that’s forging a sane response to it), the time feels right for taking stock — for looking back, in a big-picture way, at how the crisis unfolded, the ways it was mismanaged, and how we can learn from the vast pileup of mistakes and corruption.

Nanfu Wang, the director of the wounding and disturbing Sundance documentary “In the Same Breath,” has made exactly that kind of movie.

But Wang, the Chinese-American director of “One Child Nation,” “I Am Another You,” and “Hooligan Sparrow,” doesn’t work in the detached “objective” mode of a “Frontline” documentary or an investigative newspaper report.

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