'My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow' Review

Julia Loktev's immersive and intimate character study of independent journalists in Russia is concerning and encouraging about the state of the profession worldwide.

With a runtime of more than five hours, My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow might seem like overkill. Couldn’t an editor have cut the thing down to average feature length and still gotten its point across? The documentary follows seven women journalists in Russia in the months leading up to their country’s invasion of Ukraine and then du…