‘Lost in the Jungle’: A Real-Life Thriller in Documentary Form
Movies, Today
The movie peels back the layers of a headline story to find a complex tale, centuries in the making.
‘The Wrong Paris’ Review: Texas Wants a Word
Movies, Today
Paris, Texas, may not be the preferred locale for the art student Miranda Cosgrove, but she finds that it might bring her the right man.
‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ Review: They Can’t Leave This Behind
Movies, Yesterday
Four decades after their big-screen hit, the rock legends David, Derek and Nigel have reunited for one final (really, truly) concert.
‘Rabbit Trap’ Review: Into the Woods, Listening Carefully
Movies, Yesterday
This horror feature envelops us with its technical atmospherics, but don’t dig too far beneath that surface.
‘The Man in My Basement’ Review: A Prison of His Own Making
Movies, Yesterday
Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe star in an overstuffed drama about a man haunted by the weight of history.
‘The Long Walk’ Review: Their Feet Are Killing Them
Movies, Yesterday
For a movie about motion, this Stephen King adaptation feels oddly static.
‘The History of Sound’ Review: Bohemian Tragedy
Movies, Yesterday
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor play lovers who embark on a folk song-recording mission in this demure New England drama.
‘Happyend’ Review: Adolescent Tremors
Movies, Yesterday
Friends in high school navigate senior year in a futuristic Japan where a cataclysmic earthquake looms.
‘Dreams’ Review: Fact or Autofiction?
Movies, Yesterday
The film is the final installment in Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy about the sexual and romantic mores of Oslo’s inhabitants.
‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ Review: One Last Hurrah
Movies, Yesterday
There’s truth in advertising as this well-loved saga of British entitlement rolls to a stop, on time and on point.
‘Men of War’ Review: Soldier of Misfortune
Movies, Yesterday
The documentary recounts a slapdash attempt in 2020 to overthrow the president of Venezuela, led by a former Green Beret.
Fighting the Power, One Political Cartoon at a Time
Movies, September 5
“A Savage Art” looks at the life of the prizewinning Pat Oliphant and argues such work is “a serious expression of a political thought.”
‘Riefenstahl’ Review: Hitler’s Favorite Filmmaker Revisited
Movies, September 4
This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history.
‘Tinā’ Review: Finding Their Voices
Movies, September 4
A private-school music instructor starts a choir in this New Zealand tear-jerker that hews to the tried and tested inspiring-teacher formula.
‘Twinless’ Review: Just the One of Us
Movies, September 4
Dylan O’Brien stars in an uneven but heartfelt tragicomedy about loneliness and longing.
‘Preparation for the Next Life’ Review: Wait Training
Movies, September 4
A young immigrant woman falls for a troubled U.S. soldier in this sensitive and sweetly melancholic drama.
‘The Cut’ Review: A Boxer’s Grisly Comeback
Movies, September 4
In an unsparing ring drama, Orlando Bloom plays a fighter whose extreme efforts to make weight could cost him his mind.
‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Review: A Disappointing Send-Off
Movies, September 4
The highest-grossing horror franchise ramps up the sentimentality for one last gasp with the Warrens.
‘The Baltimorons’ Review: The Night Before Christmas With the Dentist
Movies, September 4
In this bittersweet romance from Jay Duplass, the story starts with an actual stumble and loses its way before any sugarplums materialize.
‘Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass’ Review: Dreams Out of Joint
Movies, August 28
The latest phantasmagorical feature from the Quay Brothers adapts Bruno Schulz’s enigmatic tale of a son visiting his sick father.
‘Vice Is Broke’ Review: The Rise and Crash of a Fleeting Empire
Movies, August 28
This documentary by Eddie Huang is an angry but loving lament about the Montreal zine that became a billion-dollar empire before hurtling toward bankruptcy.
‘Love, Brooklyn’ Review: Boroughs and Relationships in Transition
Movies, August 28
Smart and lovely to look at, this drama starring André Holland, and set in a changing Brooklyn, hints at a wisdom it doesn’t quite deliver.
‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: Watching the Watchers
Movies, August 28
When a young girl disappears, her parents’ obsessive search may have a dark side in a thriller that poses questions about surveillance.
‘The Toxic Avenger’ Review: More Ooze and Aahs
Movies, August 28
A revival of the 1984 cult movie of the same name, this spoof about a radioactive superhero is a more confidently silly update.
‘Motel Destino’ Review: A Lurid Brazilian Thriller
Movies, August 28
As the director Karim Aïnouz reveals the secrets within the roadside establishment’s walls, a dangerous love triangle appears.
‘The Roses’ Review: To Honor, Cherish, Envy and Despise
Movies, August 28
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman star in a strangely bad remake of “The War of the Roses.”
‘A Little Prayer’ Review: A Family’s Dysfunction
Movies, August 28
David Strathairn plays a Vietnam veteran who wants to shield his daughter-in-law from hard truths about her husband in this melodrama set in North Carolina.
‘Griffin in Summer’ Review: Growing Up Stage Left
Movies, August 28
The writer-director Nicholas Colia infuses his feature debut with sensitivity and the sweet awkwardness of youth.
‘Caught Stealing’ Review: Austin Butler in Trouble and on the Run
Movies, August 28
The actor stars as a rough-and-tumble bartender in Darren Aronofsky’s odyssey across an older, grimier New York City.
‘Thursday Murder Club’ Review: A Whodunit With Helen Mirren
Movies, August 28
The ever charming actress, plus Ben Kingsley and Pierce Brosnan, solve cold cases from a retirement home. What, did you think they’d knit?
‘Eenie Meanie’ Review: Road Rage
Movies, August 22
This heist movie features Samara Weaving as a getaway driver with an unruly ex-boyfriend who owes a local kingpin serious cash.
‘Pools’ Review: Wading Through Grief
Movies, August 21
This coming-of-age movie is too preoccupied with emulating the vibes and tropes of other indie teen films than finding the heart in its own.
‘Relay’ Review: Riz Ahmed, Sleek and Sly
Movies, August 21
The actor stars as a mysterious fixer in this diverting thriller set in New York from the director David Mackenzie (“Hell or High Water”).
‘Splitsville’ Review: Separation Anxieties
Movies, August 21
Michael Angelo Covino’s callous but funny second feature concerns two marriages on the skids.
‘Ne Zha II’ Review: A Captivating Demon Hero
Movies, August 21
This ambitious sequel serves as a testament to the level of artistry in the Chinese animation industry right now.
‘Lurker’ Review: He’ll Be Watching You
Movies, August 21
Parasocial relationships and obsession in the age of social media take a nasty twist in a tightly wound debut thriller.
‘Honey Don’t!’ Review: Wry, Weird and Sometimes Cruel
Movies, August 21
The second solo feature by Ethan Coen stars Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans in a murder mystery that involves a sex cult and a grisly revenge cycle.
‘Eden’ Review: Twilight of the Europeans
Movies, August 21
In Ron Howard’s new historical drama, set in the Galápagos Islands, there are erotic shenanigans galore and harrowing acts of violence.
‘The Map That Leads to You’ Review: Baring It All in Barcelona
Movies, August 21
A meet cute between Madelyn Cline and KJ Apa leads to a sentimental journey through Europe.
‘Checkpoint Zoo’ Review: Operation Animal Rescue
Movies, August 14
This documentary retraces the heart-rending evacuation of animals from an outdoor zoo near the front lines of the Russia-Ukraine War.
‘Night Always Comes,’ Whether You Have a Home or Not
Movies, August 14
Vanessa Kirby plays a woman who has 24 desperate hours to scrape up the $25,000 that will buy a measure security for her and the brother she protects.
‘Nobody 2’ Review: Bob Odenkirk Is a Father Who Knows (and Kills) Best
Movies, August 14
In this sequel, Bob Odenkirk returns as an ordinary suburban husband and dad who’s an exceedingly skilled and very busy assassin.
‘Suspended Time’ Review: A Nostalgic Detour
Movies, August 14
The French filmmaker Olivier Assayas meanders down memory lane in a story about two brothers returning to their family home during the Covid pandemic.
‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow’ Review: Strangling Democracy
Movies, August 14
One of the year’s most towering achievements is a documentary about Russian independent journalism being wiped out in real time.
‘The Knife’ Review: Searching for the Truth
Movies, August 14
Nnamdi Asomugha’s taught directorial debut revolves around the interrogation of a Black family whose home has been invaded.
‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Spike Lee’s Back on Home Turf
Movies, August 14
The director returns to New York City, reuniting with Denzel Washington as a big-time record exec, for a twisty parable about power and conscience.
‘East of Wall’ Review: South Dakota Dreaming
Movies, August 14
In his drama set on a horse ranch, a real-life mother and daughter play rough riders struggling to make ends meet.
‘Americana’ Review: An Ensemble of Eccentrics
Movies, August 14
This slick and skillful neo-western starring Sydney Sweeney and Halsey follows characters on the trail of a Lakota heirloom.
‘Songs From the Hole’ Review: From Murder to Anguished Reckoning
Movies, August 14
This documentary-musical looks at a young man in prison, asking bedeviling questions about crime, punishment and forgiveness.
‘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.