If part one of director Julia Loktev’s sprawling and essential 12-hour chronicle of journalism under fire concluded, like any good piece of serial storytelling, with a veritable cliffhanger, part two covers the long and painful aftermath following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. By that point, we’ve come to know the handful of independent reporters — most of them women accused of being “foreign agents” by Putin’s government — whom Loktev documented during the tense months leading up to the war, showing how they held fast to their beliefs while their country began to crumble around them. My Undesirable Friends:…
