‘Grand Theft Hamlet’: The (Game) Play’s the Thing
Culture, January 17
The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game, raising fascinating questions about community and connection.
‘Back in Action’ Review: Surprise! Mom and Dad Are Spies
Weekend, January 17
Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx star as former agents, now parents, who must protect their children. You can guess the rest.
‘Alarum’ Review: Mission Forgettable
Weekend, January 16
Sylvester Stallone briefly stabilizes this artless action movie about a rogue agent and his wife on the run.
‘Night Call’ Review: Belgian Brawlers
Weekend, January 16
An ordinary locksmith undergoes an action-hero transformation in this snappy thriller set in Brussels during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests.
‘Wolf Man’ Review: Howling on the Inside
Weekend, January 16
Julia Garner stars as a weary wife to Christopher Abbott, who might be transforming into a savage animal, in this cabin-in-the-woods thriller.
‘One of Them Days’ Review: Too Broke, Girls
Weekend, January 16
Keke Palmer and SZA play short-on-cash roommates on a mad dash across Los Angeles in this exhilarating comedy.
‘Wish You Were Here’ Review: One Night Can Change a Life
Weekend, January 16
A tepid romance follows familiar genre lines, but lacks some fundamental appeal.
‘I’m Still Here’ Review: When Politics Invades a Happy Home
Weekend, January 16
The award-winning Brazilian film has been a major hit in its home country — and it’s easy to see why.
‘In the Shadow of Beirut’ Review: Surviving in Sabra and Shatila
Weekend, January 14
This observational documentary tracks four families living in poverty in the capital of Lebanon.
‘Every Little Thing’: Enchantment That Flaps at 50 Beats a Second
Culture, January 10
This film by Sally Aitken follows a hummingbird rescue center and the woman who tends to its denizens with immense care.
‘Ad Vitam’ Review: High Stakes and Paragliding
Weekend, January 10
Lean, fast and furious action movies may look simple on the surface but they’re hard to pull off, as this new French import demonstrates.
‘Den of Thieves 2: Pantera’ Review: Tough Cop, Nice Robber
Weekend, January 10
Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr., adversaries in the original film, now buddy up to steal some diamonds in France.
‘Diane Warren: Relentless’ Review: The Woman Behind the Hits
Weekend, January 9
The songwriter, who has written for Cher, Toni Braxton and Celine Dion, among others, isn’t planning on stopping anytime soon.
‘Eat the Night’ Review: Connection Impossible
Weekend, January 9
The lives of two siblings are upended by gang violence and the loss of a beloved video game in this haunting yet shaky French drama.
‘Oceans Are the Real Continents’ Review: Does Water Connect Us?
Weekend, January 9
Tommaso Santambrogio’s film, which stakes out territory in both truth and fantasy, uses nonactors to tell intertwining stories set in contemporary Cuba.
‘The Last Showgirl’ Review: Pamela Anderson Is Dazzling
Weekend, January 9
The actress stars as a dancer at a Las Vegas revue on its last fishnet leg in Gia Coppola’s sensitive and beguiling film.
‘The Last Republican’: Sometimes Political Opposites Really Can Talk
Culture, January 3
This film about Adam Kinzinger, the politician of the title, benefits from the involvement of the progressive filmmaker Steve Pink.
‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Review: It’s Alive!
Weekend, January 2
In Nick Park’s latest charming stop-motion animated film, the inventor-beagle team discovers the joys and dangers of technology.
‘The Damned’ Review: The Very Deep Midwinter
Weekend, January 2
A bleak if repetitive thriller centers on a 19th-century Icelandic fishing outpost and a moral quandary.
‘Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever’ Review: Matter Over Mind
Weekend, January 1
A documentary tracks the tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson’s efforts to follow a hyper-regimented body care system.
‘From Ground Zero’ Review: An Inside View of Gaza
Weekend, December 26
This collection of 22 shorts by Palestinian filmmakers presents on-the-ground accounts of life and death that might otherwise be ignored.
‘2073’ Review: Back to the Future
Weekend, December 26
Asif Kapadia’s documentary-fiction hybrid film, starring Samantha Morton, visualizes a dystopian San Francisco.
‘Santosh’ Review: When Justice Isn’t Just
Weekend, December 26
An Indian widow becomes a police officer in this crime drama that offers searing social critique.
‘Babygirl’ Review: Nicole Kidman Takes Control
Culture, December 25
Nicole Kidman bares body and some soul in a story about a married woman who enters a dominant-submissive affair with a younger man.
‘A Complete Unknown’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Goes Electric
Culture, December 25
The actor stars as a young Bob Dylan, who woos folk followers only to betray them later at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
‘Nosferatu’ Review: Drac’s Back, Sucking Blood and Souls
Weekend, December 25
The director Robert Eggers dares you to feel seduced in his take on the classic vampire tale, starring Bill Skarsgard and Lily Rose Depp.
‘Vermiglio’ Review: Remote Rites of Passage
Culture, December 25
During World War II, life changes for a family in a Northern Italian mountain village when a Sicilian stranger arrives.
‘Better Man’ Review: The Boy in the Band
Weekend, December 25
The singer Robbie Williams’s caustic, often vulnerable narration is the melody that enriches this musical biopic’s otherwise familiar beats of pop stardom.
‘The Fire Inside’ Review: When the Fight Isn’t in the Ring
Culture, December 24
The story of the boxer Claressa Shields could have been just another sports movie. Directed by Rachel Morrison and penned by Barry Jenkins, it’s much more than that.
‘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.