The Protesters and the Police Are Both the Focus and the Filmmakers
Movies, December 5
To tell the story of the demonstrations surrounding a World Trade Organization meeting, “WTO/99” assembled scenes shot by the participants themselves.
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Review: The Robots Are Malfunctioning (Again)
Movies, December 4
The bigger-budget follow-up to last year’s abysmal cult horror hit about haunted animatronic puppets is, at best, marginally scarier.
‘La Grazia’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Portrait of Waning Power
Movies, December 4
The director reunites with Toni Servillo, casting the astonishingly expressive actor as a fictional Italian president facing the end of his term.
‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Review: It’s a Hit (Reprise)
Movies, December 4
The Tony-winning Broadway revival of the notorious Stephen Sondheim flop, starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, gets a live stage recording for the big screen.
‘Rosemead’ Review: A Mother and Her Troubled Son
Movies, December 4
In this drama, Lucy Liu offers a compassionate and grim portrait of the lengths a mother will go to protect — and thwart — her teenage son.
‘Little Trouble Girls’ Review: Teenage Infatuation
Movies, December 4
Despite awareness of taboos, two girls in a Catholic school choir are drawn to each other in this feature debut by the Slovenian director Urska Djukic.
‘Jay Kelly’ Review: All His Memories Are Movies
Movies, December 4
Noah Baumbach’s latest film has George Clooney playing the last of the old-school movie stars.
‘Happy Holidays’ Review: Fissures in a Palestinian Family
Movies, December 4
In Scandar Copti’s film, set in Haifa, Israel, secrets and deceptions strain relationships.
‘Fackham Hall’ Review: Keep Calm and Chuckle On
Movies, December 4
Clever sight gags jazz up this “Downton Abbey” sendup about a bookish aristocrat under pressure to marry her first cousin.
‘Endless Cookie’ Review: An Animated Family History
Movies, December 4
Two filmmaking brothers trade tales in a tonally singular documentary.
‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Saved by the Pen
Movies, December 4
Kristen Stewart’s feature directing debut stars a riveting Imogen Poots in an uncomfortably visceral tale of abuse and addiction.
‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: A Feminist Fairy Tale
Movies, December 4
This flawed but endearing film stars Emma Corrin as a protective maid and features Charli XCX as a sister with a secret.
‘The Merchants of Joy’ Review: Cutthroat Christmas Tree Sales
Movies, December 1
A new documentary contains zesty character studies of competing New York City tree vendors as they prepare for the holiday season.
In ‘The Tale of Silyan,’ the Storks Are Watching
Movies, November 28
The birds’ presence lends an otherworldly air to this nonfiction look at a family farm in a dying North Macedonian village.
‘You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine’ Review: Paying Tribute in Nashville
Movies, November 27
Lyle Lovett, Bonnie Raitt, Kacey Musgraves and other luminaries perform Prine’s songs in this engaging concert film.
‘The Thing With Feathers’ Review: Parenting Without Your Better Half
Movies, November 27
A grieving father struggles to care for his two children after the death of his wife. Even with its star, Benedict Cumberbatch, the movie never takes flight.
‘The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo’ Review: Freelancing Woes
Movies, November 27
Was a freelance photographer intentionally left out of the famous Vietnam War photo of “Napalm Girl”?
‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: An Electric Portrait of Taipei
Movies, November 27
The filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou tells a sensitive story of a mother and her two daughters struggling to get by in Taiwan.
‘BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions’ Review: An Artist’s Mind-Expanding Collage
Movies, November 27
In this dazzling essay movie, the director Kahlil Joseph draws on an array of sources — news clips, old movies, family albums, an encyclopedia of ”Africana” — to create a thrilling whole.
‘The Secret Agent’ Review: Carnival in the Face of Carnage
Movies, November 26
Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s miliary dictatorship.
‘Zootopia 2’ Review: Natural Habitats, Expanded
Movies, November 26
A sequel to the 2016 hit, this movie about an animal metropolis takes on an even messier social allegory than the first one, while building out a wider (if bloated) universe.
‘Teenage Wasteland’ Review: Young in Age, Mature in Reporting
Movies, November 26
This documentary looks back at a group of teenagers who, in the early 1990s, created a high school video project that ended up breaking real news.
‘Hamnet’ Review: The Rest Is Silence
Movies, November 26
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in a heartbreaking adaptation of the best-selling novel.
‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ Review: Forgive Them, Father
Movies, November 26
Josh O’Connor leads a star-studded cast in the latest Benoit Blanc mystery — this one, about religious cults of personality.
‘Eternity’ Review: Dead Reckoning
Movies, November 26
Elizabeth Olsen plays a dead woman who must choose her forever partner in this silly afterlife rom-com.
‘Zodiac Killer Project’: Hooked on True Crime
Movies, November 21
Charlie Shackleton explains how he would have made a film had he won the rights to a book on a murderer. The result is a fascinating look at a whole genre.
‘The Family Plan 2’ Review: A Relaxing Vacation? Maybe Not.
Movies, November 20
Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Monaghan return in a better executed, equally goofball sequel about a family’s tangles with organized crime.
‘Wicked: For Good’ Review: Two Besties Till the End
Movies, November 20
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return to Oz for the second part of Jon M. Chu’s maximalist adaptation of the Broadway musical.
‘Train Dreams’ Review: Life, Understood in Reverse
Movies, November 20
Joel Edgerton stars in a gorgeous film based on Denis Johnson’s celebrated novella about a laborer in the Pacific Northwest.
‘Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter’ Review: When Fame Recedes
Movies, November 20
A documentary tracks the highs and lows of the 1990s fitness guru, now a food delivery driver in Las Vegas.
‘Sisu: Road to Revenge’ Review: Slapstick Rambo
Movies, November 20
In this sequel to the 2023 exploitation film, blood-splattered inanity becomes a delirium of popcorn fun.
‘Rental Family’ Review: Lost in Impersonation
Movies, November 20
Brendan Fraser is quietly endearing in this fish-out-of-water tale of an American actor in Tokyo who accepts some highly unusual assignments.
‘Cutting Through Rocks’ Review: The Only Way Out
Movies, November 20
A documentary about Sara Shahverdi, the first woman elected to the council of her village in Iran, is propelled by her no-nonsense resourcefulness.
‘The Age of Disclosure’ Review: Release the Extraterrestrial Files
Movies, November 20
A documentary argues that the U.S. government needs to divulge what it knows about the phenomena formerly called U.F.O.s.
‘Cactus Pears’ Review: Finding Intimacy Amid Grief
Movies, November 20
This understated Indian drama follows closeted gay man gingerly initiating a romance with an old friend.
‘Selena y Los Dinos’ Review: Still Dreaming of You
Movies, November 18
In this look back at the singer Selena, the director Isabel Castro presents home video footage and photographs that have not been seen in other documentaries.
‘Come See Me in the Good Light’: The Sweetness After a Terminal Diagnosis
Movies, November 14
The film chronicles the poet Andrea Gibson’s final year of living with cancer and trying to make every second count.
‘A Very Jonas Christmas Movie’ Review: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Movies, November 14
In their fan-oriented and self-mocking holiday comedy, the millennial boy band delivers pure festive sugar rush.
‘The Running Man’ Review: Glen Powell Plays for His Life
Movies, November 13
The actor stars as an Everyman battling it out in a near-future but familiarly dystopian America in the director Edgar Wright’s new version of the Stephen King novel.
‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Ode to ‘Breathless’
Movies, November 13
The American director moves his sights to Paris in 1959, when a young, cocky Jean-Luc Godard is hustling to make his first (now legendary) movie.
‘The Things You Kill’ Review: A Tragedy Turns Surreal
Movies, November 13
A slippery Turkish-language feature takes its time revealing its mysteries.
‘Rebuilding’ Review: When Life Bucks You Off
Movies, November 13
In this gentle western, Josh O’Connor plays a cowboy who’s lost his ranch and sense of self to a wildfire.
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Review: Magic, the Gathering
Movies, November 13
The Horsemen return, with some new additions, and are off to right the world’s wrongs once more.
‘Keeper’ Review: You Can Get In, but You Can’t Get Out
Movies, November 13
This entertainingly loopy horror movie from Osgood Perkins is a cabin-in-the-woods chiller with a girl power spin.
‘King Ivory’ Review: Oklahoma Turns Gangland
Movies, November 13
A starry action-thriller with noble intentions fumbles the fentanyl epidemic.
‘The Carpenter’s Son’ Review: The First Temptation of Christ?
Movies, November 13
In this horror movie drawn from the Apocrypha, a teen Jesus is both troubled and troubling to his parents. Then along comes a stranger with a serpent.
‘Bunny’ Review: Doing the Right Thing
Movies, November 13
Ben Jacobson’s caper set in an East Village tenement hinges on the camaraderie of neighbors and teems with energy.
‘Arco’ Review: A Technicolor Apocalypse
Movies, November 13
A boy empowered by a time-traveling cape crash-lands in 2075 in this inventive animated film that wrestles with the effects of climate change and technology.
‘Being Eddie’ Review: A King of Comedy Looks Back
Movies, November 13
A self-aware and soft-spoken Eddie Murphy plays docent to his own career in a new documentary.
‘Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net’ Review: How the Magic Happens
Weekend, July 25
This documentary chronicles the reboot and reopening in Las Vegas of the acrobatic show “O,” which shutdown during the pandemic.
‘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.