Featuring one of the more eye-rolling puns in recent memory, Liz Marshall’s clean-meat documentary “Meat the Future’‘ plays out both as a swift introduction to the growing industry of cultivated meat and a feature-length advertisement for Upside Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) and its founder/CEO Dr. Uma Valeti. Despite such a compelling subject, the film is ultimately more interested in championing Valeti’s start-up then turning a critical eye on the practicalities, or lack thereof, of clean-meat production.

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Like director Brett Morgen‘s “The Kids Stays in the Picture” with Robert Evans and “Cobain: Montage of Heck” with Kurt Cobain, “Jane” is a portrait of a single, singular figure who had an enormous impact on culture: Jane Goodall. This wildly entertaining documentary combines over 100 hours of unearthed footage from the 1960s with current interviews and voiceover from the primatologist to create a film that is simultaneously full of both emotion and intelligence.

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