‘Come See Me in the Good Light’: The Sweetness After a Terminal Diagnosis
Movies, November 14
The film chronicles the poet Andrea Gibson’s final year of living with cancer and trying to make every second count.
‘A Very Jonas Christmas Movie’ Review: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Movies, November 14
In their fan-oriented and self-mocking holiday comedy, the millennial boy band delivers pure festive sugar rush.
‘The Running Man’ Review: Glen Powell Plays for His Life
Movies, November 13
The actor stars as an Everyman battling it out in a near-future but familiarly dystopian America in the director Edgar Wright’s new version of the Stephen King novel.
‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Ode to ‘Breathless’
Movies, November 13
The American director moves his sights to Paris in 1959, when a young, cocky Jean-Luc Godard is hustling to make his first (now legendary) movie.
‘The Things You Kill’ Review: A Tragedy Turns Surreal
Movies, November 13
A slippery Turkish-language feature takes its time revealing its mysteries.
‘Rebuilding’ Review: When Life Bucks You Off
Movies, November 13
In this gentle western, Josh O’Connor plays a cowboy who’s lost his ranch and sense of self to a wildfire.
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Review: Magic, the Gathering
Movies, November 13
The Horsemen return, with some new additions, and are off to right the world’s wrongs once more.
‘Keeper’ Review: You Can Get In, but You Can’t Get Out
Movies, November 13
This entertainingly loopy horror movie from Osgood Perkins is a cabin-in-the-woods chiller with a girl power spin.
‘King Ivory’ Review: Oklahoma Turns Gangland
Movies, November 13
A starry action-thriller with noble intentions fumbles the fentanyl epidemic.
‘The Carpenter’s Son’ Review: The First Temptation of Christ?
Movies, November 13
In this horror movie drawn from the Apocrypha, a teen Jesus is both troubled and troubling to his parents. Then along comes a stranger with a serpent.
‘Bunny’ Review: Doing the Right Thing
Movies, November 13
Ben Jacobson’s caper set in an East Village tenement hinges on the camaraderie of neighbors and teems with energy.
‘Arco’ Review: A Technicolor Apocalypse
Movies, November 13
A boy empowered by a time-traveling cape crash-lands in 2075 in this inventive animated film that wrestles with the effects of climate change and technology.
‘Being Eddie’ Review: A King of Comedy Looks Back
Movies, November 13
A self-aware and soft-spoken Eddie Murphy plays docent to his own career in a new documentary.
‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’: An Extraordinary Voice (and Film)
Movies, November 7
The film captures the friendship between an Iranian filmmaker and a Gaza City resident. They never actually meet but speak movingly via video calls.
‘Sentimental Value’ Review: Joachim Trier’s Unhappy Household
Movies, November 6
In this moving drama from the director of “The Worst Person in the World,” Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve star as father and daughter in counterpoint.
‘Sarah’s Oil’ Review: The Little Drilling Rig That Could
Movies, November 6
A young Black girl learns that her land allotment is rich with oil in this story that aspires to teach us a lesson about white predation.
‘Predator: Badlands’ Review: It Lives!
Movies, November 6
The latest installment from the director of “Prey” finds a Predator and an android played by Elle Fanning teaming up against some big baddies.
‘Nuremberg’ Review: Inside the Nazi Mind
Movies, November 6
This movie starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe looks back at the trials and a psychiatrist who evaluated the defendants.
‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Tell Me Everything
Movies, November 6
Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall invigorate this experimental look at a gifted New York photographer.
‘Modi’ Review: 3 Days in the Life of Modigliani
Movies, November 6
The movie, directed by Johnny Depp, adapted from a play by Dennis McIntyre, follows the artist fleeing the police, in Paris.
‘Die My Love’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence in a Mother of a Role
Movies, November 6
The actress gives a career-defining performance opposite Robert Pattinson in Lynne Ramsay’s latest.
‘Christy’ Review: The Lady in Pink? She Packs a Fierce Punch
Movies, November 6
The ring is a treacherous place to be, but for this boxer, the living room held the greater threat of terror.
‘Caterpillar’ Review: Risking Their Sight to be Seen Anew
Movies, November 6
The latest documentary from Liza Mandelup (“Jawline”) concerns a man who seeks to change the color of his eyes — permanently.
‘Belén’ Review: An Eye-Opening but Rote Courtroom Thriller
Movies, November 6
The actor-director Dolores Fonzi chronicles the battle to legalize abortion in Argentina through the real-life story of a woman’s wrongful imprisonment.
‘The White House Effect’ and the Value of Letting Footage Speak for Itself
Movies, October 31
This film uses archival clips and documents to examine the way climate change evolved from nonpartisan topic to divisive issue.
‘Baahubali: The Epic’ Review: The Return of the King
Movies, October 30
This film combines S.S. Rajamouli’s dynamic two-part period epic, “Baahubali: The Beginning” (2015) and “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” (2017), into a single, rollicking story with aplomb.
‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ Review: Discovering the World
Movies, October 30
In this sweet animated film, set in Japan, a Belgian child encounters a flood of new wonders.
‘Fire of Wind’ Review: May Day
Movies, October 30
In this elegant, elliptical folk tale set in rural Portugal, a group of grape pickers are trapped in treetops after a bull is let loose and gores a few of their companions.
‘Hedda’ Review: Sex, Lies and a Country Estate
Movies, October 30
Tessa Thompson plays mind games with her guests in Nia DaCosta’s endlessly surprising adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen production.
‘Dracula’ Review: Fangs Out
Movies, October 29
In this provocation, the Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude takes on the Dracula myth and a real-life horror show known as Vlad the Impaler.
‘Auction’ Review: The Art World’s Gilded Hustle
Movies, October 29
This shrewd and diverting French drama takes as its inspiration the rediscovery of a long-lost Egon Schiele masterwork.
‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ Review: Facing Conflict With Comedy
Movies, October 29
Noam Shuster Eliassi spreads the message that Palestinians and Israelis should live as equals.
‘Love+War’ Review: Married to the Job
Movies, October 29
This documentary is a fast-charging profile of Lynsey Addario, a photojournalist who chases conflicts abroad while finessing them at home.
‘Ballad of a Small Player’ Review: Know When to Run
Movies, October 29
Colin Farrell stars in Edward Berger’s eye-popping but lethargic follow-up to ‘Conclave.’
In ‘Mistress Dispeller,’ a Story as Old as Time (With a Very New Twist)
Movies, October 24
In China, a professional can be hired to break up a cheating spouse’s extramarital relationship. Elizabeth Lo’s remarkable film takes us up close.
‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: The Boss in the Void
Movies, October 23
Jeremy Allen White plays the singer-songwriter in an affecting drama about the making of his 1982 album “Nebraska” when he slipped into a terrible darkness.
‘Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost’ Review: Growing Up in the Public Eye
Movies, October 23
Ben Stiller directs a moving portrait of his father and mother, the comedy pair Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
‘Regretting You’ Review: Learning to Forgive and Forget
Movies, October 23
A mother (Allison Williams) and daughter (Mckenna Grace) reel from a tragedy while looking for love in all the right places in this formulaic melodrama.
‘Shelby Oaks’ Review: A Lost Woman and Found Footage
Movies, October 23
The search for a missing person turns grisly and baffling in this derivative horror debut.
‘Queens of the Dead’ Review: Club Kids vs. Zombies
Movies, October 23
Tina Romero, the daughter of George A. Romero, the filmmaker behind the legendary “Night of the Living Dead,” brings a queer horror comedy to Brooklyn.
‘Last Days’ Review: Eyeing a Forbidden Island
Movies, October 23
Justin Lin directs a fictionalized account of the final days of a 20-something Christian missionary who tries to enter a remote island.
‘Dream Eater’ Review: Nightmares on the Move
Movies, October 23
A man who suffers from violent sleepwalking spells and his girlfriend retreat to a remote cabin in this stiff found-footage horror movie.
‘Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc’ Review: An Explosive Love Story
Movies, October 23
This animated film traces the romance and explosive conflict between a young devil hunter and a devil in disguise.
‘Bugonia’ Review: Paranoia, Anxiety and Buzz Cuts
Movies, October 23
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in the latest absurdity from Yorgos Lanthimos.
‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ Review: Down Comes Baby
Movies, October 22
A reimagined version of the 1992 film, directed by Michelle Garza Cervera, manages to be more chilly than chilling.
‘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.