Set in the present day, this adaptation of the classic children’s novel forgets why the story of a horse surviving the maliciousness of humans has endured for so long.
The documentary, directed by Alex Winter, portrays the musician and composer Frank Zappa as a sort of noble.
In this comedy from Ben Falcone, McCarthy plays the world’s most average human, picked to save the world by an A.I. entity with the voice of James Corden.
A more accurate title for this movie, set in the early ’70s, would be “Johnny Flynn Sings Jacques Brel.”
This Errol Morris documentary explores the relationship between the LSD guru and Joanna Harcourt-Smith, a woman who likened herself to Mata Hari.
A rogue Iraqi SWAT team fights the Islamic State in Matthew Michael Carnahan’s action thriller.
One viewing is enough for this animated feature debut by the Polish director Mariusz Wilczynski.
This observational documentary is set in a training center for Filipino women who are deployed abroad to work as domestic help.
Straight expectations sour a lesbian couple’s holidays in this romantic comedy.
This animated sequel accelerates the prehistoric characters’ clash with modernity.
A first-year college student learns her cool uncle’s secrets in Alan Ball’s film.
Kids explore the marvels of Santa’s Village in this sugary, busy Netflix sequel that stars Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn as Mr. and Mrs. Claus.
Glenn Close and Amy Adams star in Ron Howard’s Hollywoodized version of J.D. Vance’s best seller.
Netflix’s peppy holiday musical has a campy streak and original songs by the country star, who plays a homeless angel with lessons for the town Scrooge.
This Netflix documentary wants so much to be a humanizing look at Mendes, but it doesn’t crack his polished pop-idol veneer.
R.J. Cutler’s biographical documentary about the comedy legend hits home hardest as a kind of love story, thanks to candid letters and audio interviews with colleagues.
This Disney+ space race documentary is a bland chronology of successful launches and minor mishaps.
The shocking Romanian documentary “Collective” revisits a 2015 fire that killed scores of people and brought down the government.
The first episode in Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology dramatizes protest and police brutality in 1960s London.
Sarah Paulson plays a menacing parent in this enjoyably ludicrous thriller.
An obnoxious youth is taught the ways of the bocce court in this Staten Island family drama from Julio Vincent Gambuto.
This documentary on the Holocaust survivor and successful investor isn’t an objective portrait and doesn’t aspire to be.
Playing a chief executive, Chan mostly observes rather than takes part in this movie’s death-defying stunts.
The Danish actor Claes Bang plays an army officer in the aftermath of World War II, investigating paintings that have fallen into Nazi hands.
A holiday game of musical thrones keeps Vanessa Hudgens whirling through costumes and accents.
Riz Ahmed is touchingly credible as a musician who loses his hearing in this unusual drama.
In Matthew Rankin’s visually exuberant film, a candidate for prime minister copes with fascism and fetishism in a bizarro-world version of Canada’s past.
This macho drama concerns a mixed martial arts fighter and the son he continues to abuse — in the cage.
This documentary follows Dr. Jess Ting in his work at Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
In this Alex Gibney documentary, the psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, who has spent decades studying the pathology of violence, explains what makes people murder.
In this immersive experimental film, an elephant and his guardian take a dangerous jungle journey.
This quietly observed drama follows a teenager living in a community of Ainu people in Hokkaido, Japan struggling to preserve their culture.
The rise and fall of the provocative rapper Tekashi69 is chronicled in this Hulu documentary.
David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie play grieving parents in a dreary melodrama that imagines Peter Pan and Alice (of Wonderland) as siblings.
Two friends face the challenges of adulthood and the treachery of women in this empty, energetic bromance.
This Netflix holiday movie offers energetic sequences, charming music and a delightful cast.
In this 1930s drama, Margot Robbie plays a bank robber who finds an unlikely partner in crime in Finn Cole’s teenage dreamer.
Apocalyptic comets, complicated math, ancient rituals, eccentric scientists: Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer’s new documentary has it all.
Henry Golding plays a man who returns to the Vietnam of his childhood in Hong Khaou’s thoroughly personal drama “Monsoon.”
This film about enchanted women of the woods is lovely to behold but its story line is lacking.
The beloved actress’s new movie, from Edoardo Ponti, is a tidy, not unintelligent tear-jerker about love and tolerance.
Claire Oakley demonstrates admirable control in her first feature film, a psychological coming-of-age drama.
Nathan Grossman alternates truth-to-power moments with quiet ones in his documentary about the young Greta Thunberg.
Kate Winslet’s fossil hunter and Saoirse Ronan’s convalescent embark on a forbidden seaside romance.
Vince Vaughn explores his feminine side when his character inhabits the body of a high-school girl in this slasher comedy.
Mel Gibson plays a glum Saint Nick whose business is on the skids in this grim, tonally confused comedy.
This cleareyed documentary explores how machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate society’s existing class-, race- and gender-based inequities.
This HBO documentary follows the lives and trajectories of four transgender and gender-nonconforming children in Kansas City.
The filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer excavates the sights — and constructs the sounds — of a lost New York.
Influences of “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Get Out” are evident in this Joe Marcantonio film, which doesn’t live up to its forebears.
André Ovredal’s new fantasy film seems more concerned with setting up a sequel than delivering answers.
This Netflix holiday movie is predictable to a fault, with barely enough energy to light up a Christmas tree.
A tale of American striving, in undergrowth thick with preconceived notions about people who might not be exactly like you.
In this survival drama set during the military dictatorship in Spain, a man hides in his house for three decades, battling tedium and isolation.
Eva Green plays an astronaut and single mother in this disappointingly earthbound drama.
The film, starring Joel Kinnaman as a mole in a mob-run drug trade, makes for an absorbing time killer.
A family is threatened by a diabolical entity in this frightening and emotionally fraught horror movie.
The mature chemistry of Kevin Costner and Diane Lane goes a long way in this searing thriller.
A grieving couple is terrorized by three psychopaths in this unsettling Swedish horror movie.
In this horror film, a deranged high school science teacher entraps his former students in a deadly social experiment.
Olivier Marchal’s film proves that gangsters and crooked cops can speak French and still spin clichés.
A 13-year-old boy, his body covered in hair, searches for the mother he never knew.
Oliver Laxe gives us the story of humans and nature in crisis in Galicia, with nonactors playing the roles.
This documentary by Kim A. Snyder asks difficult questions about what it means to grow up in an America where gun violence is far too common.
This recently restored film by King Hu is a spectacular, exhilarating entertainment.
In Jacob Chase’s film, a monster from another realm invades ours through phone screens and tablets.
This documentary traces the mercurial journey of a Cambodian refugee who became a doughnut mogul in California.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s feature about a mother in Spain whose son disappears is a compelling and unsettling character study.
Omari Hardwick plays a lawyer who gets trapped in the superstition-laden enclave of Appalachia where he was raised.
In his latest movie, the celebrated documentarian explores the ideas and ideals, the faces and spaces of Boston’s City Hall.