Barbara Walters Film Emphasizes the Highlights in a Mixed Legacy
Movies, Yesterday
“Tell Me Everything” is more of a puff piece than its subject might have liked, but the film is at its best examining TV journalism’s evolution.
‘Sorry, Baby’ Review: Life and Nothing but, Beautifully
Movies, June 26
In her tender, funny feature directing debut, Eva Victor tells the story of a woman, the trauma that changed her and the life she kept on living.
‘Stealing Pulp Fiction’ Review: A Lowbrow Homage
Movies, June 26
A couple of loser cinephiles concoct a dumb heist plan, and hilarity is the last thing that ensues.
‘Ponyboi’ Review: The Cost of Living Authentically
Movies, June 26
In this gritty film by River Gallo, an intersex character has to navigate New Jersey gangsters and double crosses.
‘My Mom Jayne’ Review: An Exceptional Family Tale
Movies, June 26
Mariska Hargitay sets out to learn about her mother, the Hollywood actress Jayne Mansfield, through intimate conversations with her siblings.
‘M3gan 2.0’ Review: Back to Slay Another Day
Movies, June 26
Everyone’s favorite campy killer doll returns in a movie that has some thoughts about artificial intelligence.
‘Hot Milk’ Review: Mommy Issues
Movies, June 26
Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw star in this drama about a young woman in a codependent relationship with her disabled mother.
‘F1 The Movie’ Review: Brad Pitt Goes Zoom
Movies, June 26
In tanned, tousled form, the actor stars in a Formula One story about fast cars, last chances and pretty people by the director of “Top Gun: Maverick.”
‘Afternoons of Solitude’ Review:
Movies, June 26
Albert Serra’s mesmerizing documentary about a bullfighter faithfully depicts a violent tradition and the specter of death that suffuses it.
Marlee Matlin Tells Her Own Unvarnished Story
Movies, June 20
In a new documentary, the actress talks about the prejudice and loneliness she faced after becoming the rare Hollywood star who is deaf.
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Review: Singing, Slinging and Slashing
Movies, June 19
Beyond the somewhat silly premise of this Netflix animated film is a charming, funny and artfully punchy original universe.
‘Elio’ Review: Pixar’s Fantastical, Familiar World
Movies, June 19
An orphaned boy is whisked away on a visually wondrous cosmic adventure, but he returns home with mostly reassuring lessons.
‘28 Years Later’ Review: Danny Boyle Revives His Monsters
Movies, June 19
The director returns to the postapocalyptic Britain he conjured in his 2002 movie “28 Days Later,” this time with a father and son running from flesh-eaters. Mom joins in, too.
‘Shanghai Blues’ Review: Slapstick Fun in a 1984 Tsui Hark Picture
Movies, June 19
This newly restored screwball comedy is a buoyant romp. The director revisits and refines the techniques used here in his later work in other genres.
‘The Queen of My Dreams’ Review: From Karachi to Toronto
Movies, June 19
Fawzia Mirza’s amiable feature debut traces the lives of a mother and her daughter in two coming-of-age tales.
‘Familiar Touch’ Review: Living With Dementia
Movies, June 19
In this empathetic debut feature, Kathleen Chalfant plays Ruth, a woman who moves into an assisted living facility and adapts to her new life.
‘Everything’s Going to be Great’ Review: Show People
Movies, June 19
A theater family sorts out its offstage drama in a coming-of-age movie starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.
‘Bride Hard’ Review: Taking on Baddies at Her Best Friend’s Wedding
Movies, June 19
Rebel Wilson gamely plays the role of secret agent and bridesmaid in this action-thriller mixed with a rom-com.
‘Sally’ Review: Rocket Woman
Movies, June 17
The remarkable life of the first American woman in space is profiled in this diverting but tame documentary.
‘Prime Minister’ Examines a New Zealand Leader and a Global Issue
Movies, June 13
The film is a memoir of sorts for Jacinda Ardern, who governed at a time of multiple disasters. But it was misinformation that proved hardest to cope with.
‘Sex’ Review: Two Men Talk About and Around the Subject
Movies, June 12
A chimney sweep and his colleague get deep on the roofs of Oslo in Dag Johan Haugerud’s curious meditation on marriage and masculinity.
‘Tatami’ Review: A Bitter Fight, Both on and Off the Mat
Movies, June 12
A flinty Iranian judoka competing in the World Judo Championships is menaced by her government in this absorbing political thriller.
‘Deep Cover’ Review: Fighting Crime With Improv
Movies, June 12
Three hapless comics, played by Orlando Bloom, Bryce Dallas Howard and Nick Mohammed, infiltrate the criminal underworld.
‘Echo Valley’ Review: Mother Knows Best, Daughter Does Worst
Movies, June 12
A stellar cast led by Julianne Moore is unable to breathe life into this unsuccessful blend of maternal drama and crime caper.
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
Movies, June 12
In Jessie Maple’s restored 1981 drama, the first feature-length film by a Black woman, a heroin addict mentors a young boy and tries to find his footing.
‘Meeting With Pol Pot’ Review: Snapshots of Totalitarianism
Movies, June 12
The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
‘Materialists’ Review: When Dakota Met Pedro (and Chris)
Movies, June 12
The director Celine Song follows up her “Past Lives” with a side-eyeing update on the rom-com, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans.
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Review: The Return of Hiccup and Toothless
Movies, June 12
This live action remake of the 2010 animated film is religiously faithful to the original. The result is exhilarating at times, if somewhat mechanical.
‘Titan: The OceanGate Disaster’ Review: A Company’s Failures
Movies, June 11
Netflix’s documentary about the catastrophe uses familiar techniques to spotlight the faulty judgment of Stockton Rush, who ran OceanGate.
‘Tyler Perry’s Straw’ Review: The Accidental Bank Robber
Movies, June 6
A single mom in Atlanta (Taraji P. Henson) is having a very, very, very bad day.
‘Sunlight’ Review: A Man Wakes Up in a Camper, Monkey at the Wheel
Movies, June 5
In Nina Conti’s absurdist love story, a radio host and a new friend have nowhere to go but up.
‘The Ritual’ Review: An Exorcism to Forget
Movies, June 5
Al Pacino speaks in an exaggerated accent and Dan Stevens looks overly concerned in this movie directed by David Midell.
‘Slumlord Millionaire’ Review: Costs of Living
Movies, June 5
A documentary looks at New York City residents pushing back against housing troubles.
‘The Life of Chuck’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Movies, June 5
Tom Hiddleston dances his way through a movie about death and dystopia, based on a Stephen King story, that has an incongruous feel-good vibe.
‘The Last Twins’ Review: A Rare Holocaust Story
Movies, June 5
Erno Spiegel was spared because he was a twin. He went on to help others at Auschwitz, as detailed in this documentary by Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill.
‘I Don’t Understand You’ Review: Murder and Mayhem in Italy
Movies, June 5
The film follows dads-to-be Dom (Nick Kroll) and Cole (Andrew Rannells) as they make a series of disastrously wrong turns during their anniversary trip.
‘Dangerous Animals’ Review: Here, Sharky Sharky!
Movies, June 5
The Australian director Sean Byrne combines the serial killer and shark movie subgenres into a trashy good time.
‘From the World of John Wick: Ballerina’ Review: Dance, Killer, Dance!
Movies, June 5
Ana de Armas twirls into the franchise as a ballerina-assassin with vengeance on her mind in this by-the-numbers cash grab.
When the Whole Country Watched a Nuclear War Movie at Once
Movies, May 30
The 1983 ABC movie “The Day After” was a landmark moment that proved contentious even before it aired, as a new documentary shows.
‘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.