‘Unfrosted’ Review: What’s the Deal With Pop-Tarts?
Weekend, May 3
Starring Jerry Seinfeld in his feature directing debut, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is the only corporate saga whose main ingredient is high-fructose sarcasm.
‘Evil Does Not Exist’ Review: Nature vs. Nurture
Weekend, May 2
Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows up his sublime drama “Drive My Car” with a parable about a rural Japanese village and the resort developer eyeing its land.
‘Slow’ Review: We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off
Weekend, May 2
The second feature by the Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze asks what a relationship looks like when you factor out the sex.
‘Jeanne du Barry’ Review: A Versailles Scandal at Its Snooziest
Weekend, May 2
Maïwenn wrote, directed and stars in the film, playing opposite Johnny Depp, who is Louis XV. Though he declares he loves her, their chemistry is weak.
‘Catching Fire’ Review: How the Stones’ Muse Rolled
Weekend, May 2
Subtitled “The Story of Anita Pallenberg,” this documentary gives the life of the actress and model a thorough downer of a treatment.
‘The Fall Guy’ Review: Ryan Gosling Goes Pow! Splat! Ouch!
Weekend, May 2
The actor charms as a swaggering stunt man, alongside an underused Emily Blunt, in the latest skull-rattling action movie from David Leitch.
‘Wildcat’ Review: Seeing Flannery O’Connor Through Her Stories
Weekend, May 2
Ethan Hawke teams up with his daughter, Maya Hawke, for an unconventional and somewhat muddled portrait of a singular author.
‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Review: How We Used to Escape
Weekend, May 2
An outstanding not-quite-horror film about being a fan just before the internet took over.
‘Turtles All the Way Down’ Review: 10 Things I Hate About Germs
Weekend, May 2
Hannah Marks’s adaptation of John Green’s blockbuster young-adult novel builds a dynamic depiction of a teenager with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
‘The Idea of You’ Review: Surviving Celebrity
Weekend, May 2
Anne Hathaway headlines a movie that’s got a lot to say about the perils of fame.
‘Challengers’ Review: Game, Set, Love Matches
Weekend, April 25
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play friends, lovers and foes on and off the tennis court in Luca Guadagnino’s latest.
‘Nowhere Special’ Review: Old Bonds, New Family
Weekend, April 25
This understated tear-jerker sees a dying single father making future family plans for his toddler son.
‘Infested’ Review: Bugging Out
Weekend, April 25
An apartment building in Paris is overrun by murderous arachnids and unsubtle allegory in this fleet and efficient debut feature.
‘Unsung Hero’ Review: Music Dedicated to the One They Love
Weekend, April 25
In fact, there’s a lot of singing in the clan whose members inspired this movie and who have racked up five Grammy Awards for their Christian recordings.
‘Terrestrial Verses’ Review: Sitting in the Bureaucrat’s Seat
Weekend, April 25
Ordinary Iranians face a maze of byzantine rules and small indignities in this series of gripping vignettes.
‘Humane’ Review: An Ethical Crisis and a Dinner Party
Weekend, April 25
Caitlin Cronenberg’s debut feature is set in a dystopian world that’s alarmingly believable.
‘The Feeling’ Review: Fifty Shades of Apathy
Weekend, April 25
In the sex comedy “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” Joanna Arnow keeps her scenes short and her expressions flat.
‘Boy Kills World’ Review: A Wide-Eyed Assassin
Weekend, April 25
Beefed up and bloodied, Bill Skarsgard goes mano a mano against disposable hordes in this dystopian action flick.
‘Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver’ Review: Of Stars and Wars
Weekend, April 19
A delirious, pulpy mishmash of knockoffs, Zack Snyder’s film isn’t good, but it sure is something.
‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: War, Undemanding
Weekend, April 18
Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing.
‘Stress Positions’ Review: It’s Giving Pandemonium
Weekend, April 18
The writer-director Theda Hammel’s biting, delirious quarantine comedy skewers white gay men in a world where fact, fiction and authentic experiences collide.
‘Blood for Dust’ Review: Dire Straits
Weekend, April 18
This drug-run thriller, starring Scoot McNairy, traffics in grim ponderousness.
‘We Grown Now’ Review: A Child’s Eye View
Weekend, April 18
Minhal Baig’s third feature follows two boys living in a public housing complex in Chicago as they cope by building their own dream worlds.
‘Egoist’ Review: A Romance With a Twist
Weekend, April 18
In this ultimately sentimental drama, a lonely fashion magazine editor in Tokyo meets a personal trainer with a secret.
‘Abigail’ Review: Horror by Numbers
Weekend, April 18
In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there be gore? You bet.
‘The Stranger’ Review: Somewhere Over the Freeway
Weekend, April 15
In this tense thriller on Hulu, Maika Monroe plays Clare, a Kansas transplant in Los Angeles who parallels Dorothy in Oz.
‘Food, Inc. 2’ Review: A Second Course
Weekend, April 11
Directed by Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo, the sequel about food production in the U.S. is, in some ways, a more hopeful film.
‘Omen’ Review: Life in a Different Space-Time Continuum
Weekend, April 11
This trippy ensemble drama set in Kinshasa explores Congolese society through magical realism.
‘Arcadian’ Review: Take Two as Needed for Postapocalyptic Pain
Weekend, April 11
Nicolas Cage defends his family against a paranormal siege in this derivative, low-budget creature feature.
‘Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead’ Review: The Laughs Are Alive
Weekend, April 11
Wade Allain-Marcus has directed a rollicking update of the 1991 cult favorite.
‘Sasquatch Sunset’ Review: Big Feet and Small Brains
Weekend, April 11
Four unrecognizably hairy actors, including Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough, play mythical creatures in this endearingly bonkers movie.
‘The Greatest Hits’ Review: Yes, She Could Turn Back Time.
Weekend, April 11
A high-concept movie about music and grief lacks follow through.
‘In Flames’ Review: A Patriarchy Horror Story
Weekend, April 11
Set in Pakistan, the story of a young woman and her family, hemmed in by men, shifts from realism to genre, with heart-pumping consequences.
‘Civil War’ Review: We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us. Again.
Weekend, April 11
In Alex Garland’s tough new movie, a group of journalists led by Kirsten Dunst, as a photographer, travels a United States at war with itself.
‘It’s Only Life After All’ Review: Indigo Girls Laugh Last
Weekend, April 10
The director Alexandria Bombach benefited from the musician Amy Ray’s archivist instincts in this warm, compelling new documentary.
‘Fire Through Dry Grass’ Review: Unsafe Space
Weekend, September 28
This enlightening, troubling documentary chronicles life (and death) among residents in a long-term care facility during the heights of the pandemic.
‘Broadway Rising’ Review: Surviving the Pandemic
Weekend, December 27
Stakeholders including Patti LuPone and Lynn Nottage share their real-time reactions to New York theater’s shutdown and reopening in Amy Rice’s documentary.
‘Bad Axe’ Review: A Pandemic Family Portrait
Weekend, November 17
The filmmaker David Siev chronicles his family’s struggle to keep their Michigan restaurant afloat through the pandemic in this hermetic documentary.