Linda Cardellini plays a widow with two children and a curse in this amusing, old-fashioned ghost story, the latest addition to the “Conjuring” series.
Netflix’s contribution to the “girls’ night out” genre has its clichés, but the cast has ample chemistry to pull it off.
Terry Gilliam’s long-deferred tribute to Cervantes’s knight errant finally arrives, starring Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver.
Ferzan Ozpetek’s thriller tips its hat to the motifs of Hitchcock, only to wind up as a tedious muddle.
Julia Hart’s wonderfully strange dystopian drama pits three gifted black women against a dried-up world and a hostile government.
Tessa Thompson holds the center in this drama about a former drug smuggler on probation who is forced to find a new life for herself and her sister.
The story of a romance between two Kenyan women was shown at Cannes after being banned in Kenya.
A sense of dislocation hangs over the South Korean director’s latest feature as a young woman writer observes mostly melancholy people, old and young.
Willem Baptist’s documentary is an impressionistic study of the end of the Polaroid camera and the “instant film” it used.
Michael Berry’s film about characters on a stalled train aims to show how, yes, we’re all connected and yes, we all need one another.
Trevor Nunn’s listless period drama about an English physicist who leaks atom-bomb secrets, drags when it should zing.
Taylor Schilling plays a cold workaholic who improves her life by babysitting her unhappy niece.
A little Hitchcock, a touch of noir, some ’90s indie rock, a few naked women, and yet not much to see.
Built around her 2018 Coachella performance, the Netflix documentary is, above all, about Beyoncé, who wrote, directed and executive produced.
Members of the Satanic Temple are not your average devil worshipers.
Ed Helms provides the internal monologue for a 5-year-old Adélie penguin referred to as Steve, who is about to embark on his first mating season.
After a 14-year-old boy falls into freezing water and his pulse stops, prayers and medical workers both seem to play a role in his recovery.
If “Bird Box” seemed like an ocular companion to the aural deprivation of “A Quiet Place,” this new film feels like a kind of prequel.
In the latest from the Italian director Matteo Garrone (“Gomorrah”), a bullied dog groomer bites back.
The director, Bi Gan, undertakes a radical challenge to linear narrative with awe-inspiring effect.
Mary Magdalene’s reputation as a temptress is set aside in Garth Davis’s revisionist depiction of her life as a follower of Jesus.
The director, Vlada Knowlton, who also narrates, is the parent of a transgender daughter.
The documentary follows the duo, who started out performing on the streets of Harlem, and went on to find wider success.
The life and work of the poet gets a delightfully droll — even gay — reinterpretation.
Max Minghella’s sweet directing debut is both proudly clichéd and refreshingly different.
Neil Marshall’s chaotic reboot turns all the dials to 11 and keeps them there.
The storytelling can’t match the visual creativity in the latest film from Laika studios.
Several sequels in, the character based on the real-life Ip Man has been so throughly fictionalized that nothing is off-limits. He’s also good fun.
Eva Husson’s ripped-from-real-life drama about Kurdish women fighting ISIS is a potent story marred by pompousness and good intentions.
In this version of the body-switch comedy, Hall turns into her 13-year-old self, played by the amazing young actress Marsai Martin.
Elisabeth Moss is raw and charismatic in Alex Ross Perry’s portrait of a musician running off the rails.
This sexually frank film from Camille Vidal-Naquet demonstrates that it’s difficult to build a character study around an unconvincing character.
The message of the movie, directed by and starring Brie Larson, is that there’s no one-size-fits-all formula for adulthood.
The director Claire Denis fills her science-fiction fantasy with drift, fluids and beautiful people, including Juliette Binoche and André Benjamin.
Mike Leigh’s historical drama has the sweep of Tolstoy and the bustling energy of Dickens.
This one has a smoother feel than the 1989 movie, our critic writes. But despite some great jolts, it’s an uneven horror film.
Lady Kung Fu and a renowned wuxia director in their only feature together, this restored 1973 film.
The film tries to present itself as a modern fable, but the themes come across as didactic rather than moving.
The movie’s literary virtues are up for debate. Its sincerity, though, is not.
The documentary focuses on a feisty woman who survived a Soviet labor camp and went on to thrive in America.
Stephanie Wang-Breal’s fascinating documentary highlights a program in Queens that treats prostitutes as victims, not criminals.
Emma Tammi’s atmospheric horror-Western shines a gender-specific spotlight on isolation and hardship.
In Qiu Sheng’s film, a team of engineers and a group of kids intersect, violating the rules of space and time, or so it would seem.
A nicely matched Asher Angel and Zachary Levi together play a superhero who has been taken out of mothballs with humor and fine performances.
Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell star in a clumsy drama of racial reconciliation. It’s based on a true story.
In the animated feature “Wall,” David Hare meditates on the partition that divides Israel and the West Bank.
A harebrained scheme ends in comic confusion in Theo Love’s goofy documentary.
Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s second feature, with multiple spiraling plots, can’t sustain its raffish, oddball tone for three hours.
The film falls into a common trap of advocacy documentaries, which is to inform on an urgent issue without a particularly urgent cinematic narrative to match it.
In this coming-of-age comedy directed by Sophie Lorain, first comes love. Then comes rebellion.
Sad and strange and defiantly gross, Joel Potrykus’s “Relaxer” is a compassionate survival tale swirling with childhood trauma.
The Ghana-born musician Blitz Bazawule makes a stunning feature directing debut that comes alive with rhythm and color.
Mary Kay Place is astonishing as a weary widow dealing with guilt, heartache and a diminishing circle of friends.
This drama, written and directed by Jeff Lipsky, explores a monstrous idea with complexity.
Michael Engler’s dull period piece follows a conservative woman who accompanies a young silent film star on a trip to New York City.
This documentary trails the former White House adviser as he tours Europe and America promoting right-wing populist nationalism.
Tim Burton takes this live-action remake of the 1941 Disney classic to his very own dark place. Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito and Eva Green help.
The McConaissance collapses into decadence in Harmony Korine’s latest caper.
As it tightens its grip, this feature from Michal Aviad captures how workplace sexual harassment slowly takes over one woman’s life.
Based on the tell-all book about “Mötley Crüe,” this film adaptation sands down the source material into a junior varsity “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
In a movie that stars Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais and Tiger Chen, the gaps in the plot may not really matter.
A controlled thriller that invents an intimate subtext for the 1983 escape of imprisoned Irish Republican Army fighters from the fortresslike Maze.
Nancy Schwartzman’s bone-chilling documentary is a tough but essential watch.
Based on the Martin Amis murder mystery “Night Train,” the movie retains several of its central characters but very little else.
This film demonstrates the power of delicious cuisine to spice up an otherwise straightforward, sentimental film.
The film re-creates the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai through the eyes of a sprawling international ensemble.
In his second feature, the director Laszlo Nemes (“Son of Saul”) applies his near-subjective cinematic style to pre-World War I Budapest.
The director of “Get Out” returns with a horror movie about a family terrorized by weird doubles. A dazzling Lupita Nyong’o heads up the terrific cast.
The director of “Get Out” returns with a horror movie about a family terrorized by weird doubles. A dazzling Lupita Nyong’o heads up the terrific cast.
This neo-exploitation potboiler about brutal men on both sides of the law stars Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn, and traffics in sordid, ugly shocks.