‘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.
‘Fixed’ Review: Dirty, Dirty Dogs
Movies, August 13
When he learns that his owners are planning to neuter him, Bull (Adam Devine) heads into the bright lights of the big city in this animated raunch-fest.
‘Sudan, Remember Us’: An Intimate Portrait of Activists in an Uprising
Movies, August 8
Hind Meddeb followed young people in Khartoum, focusing on their hopes and fears to create a kind of living record of history.
‘Weapons’ Review: These Classmates Are Not All Right
Movies, August 7
The writer-director Zach Cregger (“Barbarian”) creates and maintains an ominous mood in this horror movie about missing children.
‘Sketch’ Review: Creative Doldrums
Movies, August 7
The disturbing drawings of a grieving child come to life in this so-so children’s horror movie.
‘Strange Harvest’ Review: Staged Blood
Movies, August 7
A serial killer named Mr. Shiny gets the true-crime treatment in Stuart Ortiz’s disturbing faux documentary.
‘Ebony & Ivory’ Review: Imperfect Harmony
Movies, August 7
This anti-comedy from the writer-director Jim Hosking is a singularly annoying and abrasive experience.
‘Boys Go to Jupiter’ Review: A Florida Project
Movies, August 7
In the artist Julian Glander’s curiously creative animated comedy, a teenage food delivery courier traverses a Floridian suburb that suggests a Richard Scarry town on acid.
‘My Mother’s Wedding’ Review: Daddy Issues
Movies, August 7
In this directorial debut by Kristin Scott Thomas, three sisters reunite to celebrate their mother’s third marriage.
‘An Officer and a Spy’ Review: The Dreyfus Affair as an Allegory
Movies, August 7
Six years after its French release, the movie is screening in New York. It’s the first Roman Polanski movie to open in the U.S. since 2014.
‘It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley’ Review: A Singer’s Soul
Movies, August 7
This largely by-the-book documentary about the musician Jeff Buckley is most memorable for highlighting the earnest, sensitive soul behind the music.
‘Freakier Friday’ Review: Round and Round, Here We Go Again
Movies, August 7
Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are back with even more body-swapping in a sequel to the 2003 comedy.
‘The Pickup’ Review: Endless Car Chases to Nowhere
Movies, August 6
In this Amazon Prime Video action-comedy, Keke Palmer hijacks an armored truck driven by Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson.
‘Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation’: Scratching the Surface of a Deep Legacy
Movies, August 1
Ebs Burnough’s movie covers the novel as well as its influence on generations of readers, including many artists.
‘My Oxford Year’ Review: Finding Love Abroad
Movies, August 1
She’s a working-class romantic. He’s a prep school playboy. A Netflix romance film aims to be this generation’s “About Time,” but doesn’t hit the mark.
‘Souleymane’s Story’ Review: Fighting an Uphill Battle
Movies, July 31
A Guinean food delivery cyclist in Paris prepares for his asylum interview in this attentive, nuanced character study.
‘Architecton’ Review: A Lesson Among Ruins
Movies, July 31
A documentary about concrete is as gorgeous as it is grave.
‘Together’ Review: Getting Closer and Closer
Movies, July 31
An amusingly icky body-horror movie stars real-life partners Alison Brie and Dave Franco as a codependent couple.
‘The Naked Gun’ Review: A Chip Off the Old Blockhead
Movies, July 31
Liam Neeson gamely steps into Leslie Nielsen’s big, beautiful clown shoes in this reboot of the blissfully absurd 1988 cop comedy.
‘Harvest’ Review: When the Land Was Home
Movies, July 31
Caleb Landry Jones stars in a tale of a medieval English village vanishing.
‘The Bad Guys 2’ Review: A Wolf, a Shark, a Snake and a Sequel
Movies, July 31
This animated movie about animal bank robbers, voiced by Sam Rockwell, Zazie Beetz and others, is goofy fun.
‘Happy Gilmore 2’ Review: Back on the Green
Movies, July 25
A Netflix sequel to Adam Sandler’s hit 1996 film briefly recaptures the warm silliness of the original, before devolving into a lazy fever dream of cameos.
‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ Puts Us in Ukrainian Soldiers’ Head Space
Movies, July 25
The documentary, from Oscar winner Mstyslav Chernov and Alex Babenko, calls to mind video games as it questions how we engage with stories of war.
‘Il Dono’ Review: Slow Living
Movies, July 24
A new restoration of a 2003 Italian docudrama by Michelangelo Frammartino captures the beauty and tragedy of rural life in Southern Italy.
‘Shoshana’ Review: Love Amid Conflict
Movies, July 24
In Michael Winterbottom’s thriller set in Tel Aviv in the 1930s and ’40s, a Jewish woman is romantically involved with a British police officer.
‘Diciannove’ Review: Stalling of Age
Movies, July 24
A literature student in Siena, Italy, idles through his 19th year in this movie that aims to subvert coming-of-age expectations.
‘The Home’ Review: A Senior Moment of Terror
Movies, July 24
James DeMonaco, the creator of the “Purge” franchise, directs Pete Davidson in this horror indictment of the American elder care system.
‘Oh, Hi!’ Review: I’ll Make You Love Me
Movies, July 24
Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman go upstate for a romantic weekend away, and things go wrong.
‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Review: A Newborn Franchise
Movies, July 24
The latest iteration of the superhero quartet makes a bumpy but earnest attempt at being Marvel’s most daring film in years.
‘Folktales’ Review: A Bracing Education in Arctic Norway
Movies, July 24
With the Northern Lights above, the sounds of sled dogs piercing the air and the snow piled high, students major in the challenges and beauty of the wild.
‘Sunday Best’ Review: Ed Sullivan’s Really Big Impact
Movies, July 22
Sacha Jenkins’s documentary, about the variety show trailblazer and his commitment to Black performers in the Civil Rights era, will keep you hooked.
‘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.