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‘The First Wave’ Review: A Courageous Cinematic Time Capsule That Captures How New York City Dealt With the Early Horrors of the COVID-19 Crisis

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Tomris Laffly With his breathless, soul-piercing “The First Wave,” director Matthew Heineman makes a tough cinematic proposition.

He asks his audience to travel back to March 2020 and relive the early, frightening days of the COVID-19 crisis in New York City, when the Big Apple quickly became the world’s coronavirus epicenter through four deadly months.More graphic in its approach than two similarly themed nonfiction films — Nanfu Wang’s “In the Same Breath” and Hao Wu and Weixi Chen’s “76 Days” —  Heineman’s documentary is indeed a hard one to consent to at first, considering that the globally ruinous pandemic is far from over.

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