‘Dhurandhar the Revenge’ Review: A License to Kill, a Lot
Movies, March 20
In this ultraviolent rah-rah sequel, Ranveer Singh returns as an undercover Indian agent who’s part political gangster, part antiterrorist killing machine.
‘Lumière, le Cinéma!’ Is an Ode to the Brothers Who Made Film an Art
Movies, March 20
Directed by Thierry Frémaux, the Cannes chief, the movie argues that filmmaking is an act of faith in humanity.
‘Miroirs No. 3’ Review: Kindness and Its Reverse Image
Movies, March 19
In the lovely new movie from the acclaimed German director Christian Petzold (“Barbara”), a woman wakes to life after an accident.
‘Two Prosecutors’ Review: Practicing Law in a State of Fear
Movies, March 19
Set in the Soviet Union in 1937, this investigative drama follows one man’s mission for justice within a corrupt system.
‘Tow’ Review: When a Camry Is Home
Movies, March 19
After her car is stolen and then impounded, Amanda (Rose Byrne), fights the system to get it back.
‘Project Hail Mary’ Review: Ryan Gosling Is Lost and Found in Space
Movies, March 19
The actor plays a molecular biologist trying to help save the world in this upbeat science-fiction fantasy from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
‘Spacewoman’ Review: Mission Driven
Movies, March 19
Hannah Berryman’s engrossing documentary on Eileen Collins, the first female space shuttle pilot and commander, focuses on managing pride and fear.
‘Palestine ’36’ Review: A Time of Revolt
Movies, March 19
The Palestinian writer-director Annemarie Jacir focuses on the 1936 farmer rebellion against the British, with the future of the land at stake.
‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ Review: Flat Caps and Inflated Myths
Movies, March 19
Cillian Murphy rides to the rescue of family and homeland in this affectionate capper to the popular television series.
‘Marc by Sofia’ Review: A Fashion Friendship Across Decades
Movies, March 19
Sofia Coppola profiles the fashion designer Marc Jacobs, but the documentary strains to arrive at even the most basic revelations.
‘Late Shift’ Review: Understaffed and Overworked
Movies, March 19
Set in the cancer ward of a Swiss hospital, this antsy workplace thriller follows one nurse’s balancing act over the course of a shift.
‘Kontinental ’25’ Review: Do Unto Others (or Not)
Movies, March 19
A scorching satire about humanity and the absence of it by Radu Jude, the director of “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World.”
‘Dead Lover’ Review: A Monster of Her Making
Movies, March 19
A lonely gravedigger tries to Frankenstein love in Grace Glowicki’s macabre queer romance.
‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ Review: The Blood Is Thicker
Movies, March 19
Grace must once again survive the night, this time with her sister, in a gory, unhinged sequel that harbors a bleaker heart than the original.
‘Bushido’ Review: A Samurai’s Dangerous Moves
Movies, March 12
In this period drama, a vagrant samurai slays with a sword and his mastery of the game Go.
‘Space Cowboy’ Review: A Sky-diving Cinematographer’s Highs and Lows
Movies, March 12
This documentary about the ace sky-diving cameraman Joe Jennings unexpectedly, but meaningfully, looks at the man’s struggle with depression.
‘Slanted’ Review: Narratively Botched
Movies, March 12
This body horror thriller, about a Chinese American girl who undergoes a surgery to appear white, relies on dated tropes to construct a pale genre pastiche.
‘Reminders of Him’ Review: A Second Chance at Love
Movies, March 12
The movie, based on a Colleen Hoover book, is an unabashed tear-jerker. Terrific lead actors Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers make it work.
‘Group: The Schopenhauer Effect’ Review: The Art of Being Patient
Movies, March 12
Group therapy sessions are dramatized in this absorbing film from the writer-director Alexis Lloyd.
‘Undertone’ Review: And Now a Word From Our Demon!
Movies, March 12
An effective if occasionally bumpy debut horror film makes full use of the audience’s ears — and imagination.
‘Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare’ Review: An Emotional Choice
Movies, March 10
This documentary offers a rundown of the 2011 nuclear meltdown with special attention to the shift workers who risked their lives while trying to stabilize the plant.
A Film That Makes a Strong Argument for the Value of Debate
Movies, March 6
“Immutable” is about young debaters in a league in Washington, D.C., as well as about the skill itself in a world where yelling can seem the norm.
‘War Machine’ Review: On the Fritz
Movies, March 6
The “Reacher” star Alan Ritchson can’t troubleshoot this alien invasion sci-fi flick.
‘Pompei: Below the Clouds’ Review: Trembling Beauties, Old and New
Movies, March 5
The past and the present converge in this ravishingly beautiful Italian documentary set in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.
‘Protector’ Review: She Knows How to Give Life, and How to Take It
Movies, March 5
Milla Jovovich plays a mother whose wrath is unleashed when her daughter is kidnapped in this brooding revenge thriller.
‘Youngblood’ Review: He’s Got a Reason to Be Chippy
Movies, March 5
A remake of the 1986 crowd-pleasing hockey movie, starring Ashton James as a promising young Black player, has a lot more on its mind than the original.
‘Hoppers’ Review: Animal Magnetism
Movies, March 5
The latest Pixar movie centers on pudgy beavers and a spunky teenager determined to save their habitat.
‘The Napa Boys’ Review: You Had Me at Merlot
Movies, March 5
This unclassifiable postmodern spoof, from the comedians Nick Corirossi and Armen Weitzman, is a strange, circuitous trip through California wine country.
‘Heel’ Review: A Different Kind of House Training
Movies, March 5
A loutish teenager is shown the error of his ways in this absurdly gripping psychological thriller.
‘The Bride!’ Review: Frankie, My Dear
Movies, March 5
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as outlaws in love.
‘André Is an Idiot’ Review: Dying Laughing
Movies, March 5
In this documentary, an ad man who treats life with irreverence tries to approach his death from colon cancer the same way.
‘Dolly’ Review: Toy With Me
Movies, March 5
A backwoods monster with a twisted doll obsession puts a couple through the wringer in this unflinching exploitation fairy tale.
‘Paul McCartney: Man on the Run’ Tells One Side of the Story
Movies, February 27
The Morgan Neville-directed film relies on new and archival interviews to cover familiar ground: the years after the Beatles broke up.
‘Scream 7’ Review: It’s Hard to Keep a Good Ghoul Down
Movies, February 26
Ghostface has returned amid a light fog of nostalgia in this reunion for some of the franchise’s most terrified faces, including Neve Campbell’s.
‘In the Blink of an Eye’ Review: We Are the Future
Movies, February 26
These three connected stories about the whole of human history can’t quite sustain the necessary emotional heft.
‘K-Pops!’ Review: Reconnecting Through Music
Movies, February 26
Anderson .Paak directs and stars alongside his real-life son in this film, which offers sometimes charming, if somewhat sterile pleasures.
‘Idiotka’ Review: She’s a Haute Mess
Movies, February 26
A scrappy Russian American seamstress from West Hollywood competes in a fashion design reality show in this clever and earnest indie comedy.
‘Ghost Elephants’ Review: Pursuing What Could Be a Dream
Movies, February 26
Werner Herzog’s new documentary about the hunt for elephants in Angola focuses less on the animals and more on the pursuers.
‘Dreams’ Review: Erotic, but Not Enough Charge
Movies, February 26
Jessica Chastain plays a wealthy philanthropist obsessed with an undocumented dancer in this chilly drama.
‘The Bluff’ Review: She Has a Very Particular Set of Skills
Movies, February 25
Priyanka Chopra Jonas plays a notorious pirate who must protect her family at all costs in this Caribbean action movie.
‘The Inquisitor’ Review: Barbara Jordan Is Speaking
Movies, February 23
This whirlwind biographical documentary puts Barbara Jordan, the esteemed congresswoman and professor who died in 1996, front and center as a voice of moral authority.
‘Psycho Killer’ Review: Better the Devil You Don’t Know
Movies, February 20
A highway patrol officer travels the country to track down a hulking killing machine in this unsuccessful slasher.
‘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.