This true-crime documentary, subtitled “Exposing an Internet Horror,” recounts a South Korean case in which chat room operators blackmailed young women into sending explicit videos.
A new documentary directed by Stefan Forbes centers on a 1973 hostage negotiation led by a police officer known for his pioneering techniques.
Burning resentment at colonial exploitation on Kauai, seen through the veil of history’s smoke.
What seems like a standard rom-com takes a spin in a different direction.
In this horror movie with a Southern twang, an aspiring country duo seek guidance from their unhinged icon.
Alex Garland’s latest film stars Jessie Buckley as a woman whose peaceful trip to the countryside turns creepy and allegorical.
Two orphaned boys fall in with a criminal gang in this post-apocalyptic thriller.
Vinamrata Rai plays a rural Indian woman driven to the edge by family pressures in Ajitpal Singh’s tough and generous first feature.
A traumatized young woman and a strange musician form an unsettling connection in this disquieting psychodrama.
Qiu Jiongjiong’s absurdist epic of 20th century China is both a movie and a play, both tragedy and farce.
The Greek filmmaker Georgis Grigorakis takes an elemental theme and layers it with family conflict.
This Disney reboot combines animation and live-action comedy with an irreverent, self-referential attitude.
The latest entry in the “Downton Abbey” franchise is amiable enough — though despite its subtitle, it rests most of its extravagant weight on cozy familiarity.
In Arnaud Desplechin’s sly adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1990 novel, a middle-aged writer draws inspiration for his next book from discussions with his mistress.
A celebratory evening takes a turn when college friends find a young woman passed out in their house.
There’s little new in this comedy about parents and kids on a church outing in the wilderness.
In this documentary, the Reddit users who spawned the GameStop gold rush recall their speculation creation.
Zac Efron stars as the father of a girl, Charlie, who is learning to control her powers.
Rebel Wilson stars in a back-to-school comedy that gets its laughs and drama — strained as they sometimes are — from the ways high school experiences have changed for Gen Z teens.
A new documentary tells the story of siblings who unite to bring to justice the fertility specialist who impregnated their mothers with his sperm without consent.
Bella Cherry (psst, it’s not her real name) has come to Los Angeles looking for success. What happens next is a surprisingly complex take on the porn industry.
Juliet Bashore’s porn-world quasi documentary is a delirious and distressing portrait of two women’s tempestuous relationship.
A 1961 Italian spelunking expedition is the subject of Michelangelo Frammartino’s contemplative new film.
This musical remake follows an orphaned boy in Queens as he falls head over sneaker heels for the daughter of a Manhattan footwear magnate.
Gumbo, fried oysters, po’ boy sandwiches. And then there’s the music. This documentary gives an overview.
The director Tomer Heymann situates the notion of celebrity in the context of not just performance and gay culture but also familial intimacy.
Four children develop unusual abilities in this wonderfully eerie Norwegian horror movie.
This small-scale dramatic military anthology tells a familiar story of the endless cycle of war.
Over two decades, babies are born, elders die, young people move on, but a home remains, even though visitors dwindle.
A Netflix adaptation turns a best-selling novel by Sarah Dessen about a perfectionist teenage girl into a slick and breezy, Instagram-friendly story.
In this powerful French movie set in the early 1960s, a young woman struggles to obtain an abortion when the procedure was criminalized.
The film, set against the backdrop of fighting in the Donbas region in 2014, would be bracing and haunting even if it weren’t so timely.
This film is a minor addition to the South Korean director Hong Sangsoo’s continuing investigation of human embarrassment.
Forty years after Rhoads’s death, small rock venues across the nation still host tribute shows honoring him. This new documentary explains why.
In this mountaineering documentary, climbers chronicle their obsessive quest for alpine glory.
This documentary about Sheryl Crow depicts a musician whose work ethic did not allow a lot of time for frivolity.
This thriller, about the invasion of a fractured home, is elevated by a talented cast but hampered by a stubbornly intellectual tone.
An island of ghosts and an ocean of guilt plague a grief-stricken widower in this moody horror movie.
Benedict Cumberbatch returns for some more mystic Marvel mumbo-jumbo, though Sam Raimi manages to inject a sense of horror every now and then.
This drama from Ximan Li teases time in telling the stories of three Chinese women living in a city that tempts promise but delivers frustration.
Mei Makino’s coming-of-age drama depicts an artsy, biracial high school student grappling with the guilt of sleeping with another girl’s boyfriend.
This film about the hit 2006 musical is a sure-handed blend of making-of explainer, theater-kid scrapbook, and jukebox documentary.
A sister tries to persuade a sibling that her life is worth living.
A murderous detainee and a damaged C.I.A. agent face off in this uninspired action movie.
A restless woman discovers herself in a seductive French romance that throws out the usual dusty script about women, desire and pleasure.
The movie, with its four vignettes about Ukraine, was the country’s submission for best international feature film for the Oscars.
This documentary makes it clear why, when the pandemic threatened Matthew Tannenbaum’s store, book lovers weren’t ready to say goodbye.
Gaspar Noé’s new film chronicles the decline of an elderly couple in remorseless, mesmerizing detail.
The determinedly uplifting comedy follows a 50-year-old French filmmaker as she dates in Los Angeles.
In this action thriller, Liam Neeson plays an assassin struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. It’s not as interesting as it sounds.
In this clandestine romance, a Soviet soldier and pilot find love while stationed in Estonia in the 1970s.
A former cult member tries to restore his life.
Scrambling creature feature with psycho-horror, this inventive oddity brings tween anxieties to monstrous life.
In this drama from Barry Levinson, Ben Foster plays a Jewish boxer who, during the Holocaust, was forced to fight his fellow Jews for the Nazis’ entertainment.
This documentary teases a vague conspiracy surrounding Monroe’s death — but mostly rehashes well-circulated facts and rumors.
A son must save his ailing mother in this disturbing, ambitious religious thriller.
Even with its subject in prison, the documentary plays like a crowd-pleaser.
A coming-of-age drama with attractive cinematography and production design, but no political or philosophical weight.
The son of an interracial couple disappears, but something else gets lost along the way as well.
It’s written and directed by its star, Mark Blane, playing the anagrammatic Mark Nabel, who seems to live in some alternate reality.
Hampered by eye surgery but in pursuit of a killer, Dave Bautista’s detective finds a partner in Kumail Nanjiani’s driver.
This lively documentary shows how a founder of two national cinemas — director, producer and studio boss — was almost forgotten.
Terry Gilliam’s long-deferred tribute to Cervantes’s knight errant finally arrives, starring Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver.
Tessa Thompson holds the center in this drama about a former drug smuggler on probation who is forced to find a new life for herself and her sister.
A sense of dislocation hangs over the South Korean director’s latest feature as a young woman writer observes mostly melancholy people, old and young.
Trevor Nunn’s listless period drama about an English physicist who leaks atom-bomb secrets, drags when it should zing.
Taylor Schilling plays a cold workaholic who improves her life by babysitting her unhappy niece.
The star, along with Rihanna and his “Atlanta” collaborators, crafts a freewheeling paean to the pleasures of taking it easy.
Mary Magdalene’s reputation as a temptress is set aside in Garth Davis’s revisionist depiction of her life as a follower of Jesus.
The director, Vlada Knowlton, who also narrates, is the parent of a transgender daughter.
Elisabeth Moss is raw and charismatic in Alex Ross Perry’s portrait of a musician running off the rails.
Ethan Hawke is the main reason to see this movie, which revisits the 1973 crime that inspired the condition known as Stockholm syndrome.