‘The Brutalist’ Review: Ambitions Unbound
Weekend, December 19
Adrien Brody stars as a talented architect who flees postwar Europe to meet his match in America, a power-hungry industrialist played by Guy Pearce.
‘The Six Triple Eight’ Review: Tyler Perry Salutes the Greatest Generation
Weekend, December 19
Kerry Washington leads a female postal battalion on a moving mission in this World War II drama.
‘Homestead’ Review: A Home Away From Armageddon
Weekend, December 19
The moment these Doomsday preppers have been waiting for has arrived, and from within their secure compound they’re confronting unexpected complications.
‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast
Weekend, December 19
Keanu Reeves steps in as Shadow, while Jim Carrey doubles his fun as Robotnik in this action-adventure comedy.
‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Review: Squeaking, Not Roaring
Weekend, December 19
This wan photorealistic prequel to a remake, the latest addition to the Disney juggernaut, was directed by Barry Jenkins of “Moonlight” fame.
‘The Room Next Door’ Review: A Life Worth Leaving
Weekend, December 19
Pedro Almodóvar’s moving drama stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as friends facing mortality together.
‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ Review: Mission Impeccable
Weekend, December 19
Stirringly acted and gorgeously filmed, this swashbuckler leaves previous versions of Dumas’s famous revenge saga in the dust.
Who Better to Explore the Mysteries of the Brain Than Werner Herzog?
Culture, December 13
In “Theater of Thought,” he talks to scientists and other experts about consciousness, quantum computing and whether parrots understand human speech.
‘Kraven the Hunter’ Review: A Seriously Silly Movie
Culture, December 13
Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s buff Marvel hero is overshadowed by unabashedly fun villains.
‘Carry-On’ Review: Travel Nightmares Amplified
Weekend, December 13
In this tense thriller, Taron Egerton plays a T.S.A. agent who goes up against an implacable terrorist (Jason Bateman). The man has a funny idea of what he wants to bring on a plane.
‘September 5’ Review: When the Munich Games Changed Our News
Weekend, December 12
Tim Fehlbaum’s journalism procedural, starring Peter Sarsgaard, tracks the broadcast coverage of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics.
‘Dirty Angels’ Review: Women on a Mission
Weekend, December 12
In this heavy-handed action movie, Eva Green plays a Marine who leads a squad trying to rescue schoolgirls in Afghanistan.
‘Young Werther’ Review: Updating an 18th-Century Love Triangle
Weekend, December 12
This charming film, starring Douglas Booth and Alison Pill, bridges the gap between Goethe’s novel and the adaptation’s modern city setting.
‘The Man in the White Van’ Review: Sleazy Rider
Weekend, December 12
In this derivative thriller, set in the early 1970s, young women are stalked by an anonymous killer.
‘Nickel Boys’ Review: Childhood’s Brutal End
Weekend, December 12
This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
‘Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ Review: Side Quest
Weekend, December 12
This anime adaptation, drawn from Tolkien’s appendices, focuses on a shield maiden, but mostly it serves as an excuse to revisit Middle-earth.
‘Endless Summer Syndrome’ Review: Who’s Lying?
Weekend, December 12
In this sun-dappled French psychological thriller, a lawyer receives a call accusing her husband of having an affair with one of their children.
‘The Bibi Files’ Review: The Case Against Netanyahu
Weekend, December 11
This documentary about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel looks at the corruption investigation and his enduring grip on the government.
‘Nature of the Crime’ Review: Yearning for a Second Chance
Weekend, December 10
Two incarcerated men navigate parole boards in a documentary that asks the question: Should the guiding principle of criminal justice be retribution or rehabilitation?
‘It’s Not Me’ Review: Entering the Mind of Leos Carax
Weekend, December 10
This personal film is a dynamic, even chaotic, collage of moments that bring the director back to his beginnings.
‘Obsessed With Light’ and the Dancer We All Should Know
Culture, December 6
The film argues that Loie Fuller was an inventive artist responsible for things we take for granted. If only the movie were as creative as its star.
‘Mary’ Review: An Epic Biopic for the Mother of God
Weekend, December 6
No genre gesture goes untapped in this Netflix film, a coming-of-age saga about the Virgin Mary featuring Anthony Hopkins as King Herod.
‘Hard Truths’ Review: Mike Leigh’s Brutal Comedy
Weekend, December 5
The British director casts the superb Marianne Jean-Baptiste in the role of an excruciatingly lonely character whose pain reveals hidden depths.
‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ Review: A Legend and His Kryptonite
Weekend, December 5
The original Superman actor gets a comprehensive, if narrow-mindedly celebratory, tribute in this traditional talking-heads-style doc.
‘The Return’ Review: Homer, for the Holidays
Weekend, December 5
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche burn through the screen in this grim take on the homecoming of Odysseus.
‘The Order’ Review: Catch Him if You Can
Weekend, December 5
The thriller, about a white supremacist (Nicholas Hoult) and the killing of a real-life radio host, among other crimes, hits familiar genre beats.
‘Lake George’ Review: An Odd Couple Crime Comedy
Weekend, December 5
A stoic former convict reluctantly teams up with his would-be victim in this off-kilter film by Jeffrey Reiner.
‘The Girl With the Needle’ Review: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Weekend, December 5
This grim and exceptionally stylish film centers on a Danish woman who becomes tied up in the black-market baby trade.
‘Day of the Fight’ Review: Innovating an Old Cliché
Weekend, December 5
Revisiting a boxing classic, and honoring a filmmaking legend.
‘Y2K’ Review: Dying Like It’s 1999
Weekend, December 5
A computer glitch makes electronics go haywire in this zany and nostalgic horror-comedy from the comedian Kyle Mooney.
‘Unstoppable’ Review: A Fearless Athlete, at Home and Away
Weekend, December 5
In “Unstoppable” a focused Jharrel Jerome stars as Anthony Robles, who won a 2011 NCAA wrestling title and was born with one leg.
‘Oh, Canada’ Review: The Confession Booth
Weekend, December 5
Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader’s meditative drama about guilt and seeking forgiveness.
‘Nightbitch’ Review: Motherhood, Woof
Weekend, December 5
Amy Adams plays a stay-at-home mom who comes to believe that she’s a dog in Marielle Heller’s adaptation of the Rachel Yoder novel.
‘The End’ Review: It’s All Come to This
Weekend, December 5
Joshua Oppenheimer’s postapocalyptic musical about a wealthy family in an underground bunker is placidly disturbing.
‘Sweethearts’ Review: Friends Without Benefits
Weekend, November 28
Two college freshmen conspire to simultaneously dump their exes in Jordan Weiss’s unremarkable debut feature.
‘Reinas’ Review: Memories of Lima
Weekend, November 28
The political turmoil of Peru in the 1990s serves as the backdrop for this intimate domestic drama about growing up and learning to let go.
‘Nutcrackers’ Review: Christmas With a Crank
Weekend, November 28
Ben Stiller stars in a tonally bumpy comedy with genre roots in Hallmark territory.
‘Beatles ’64’ Review: They Wanted to Hold Their Hands
Weekend, November 28
This documentary, directed by David Tedeschi, comes up with a solid compendium of the band’s arcana from their first trip to the United States, when fans went wild.
‘Queer’ Review: The Seductive, Damaged Charm of Daniel Craig
Weekend, November 27
The star kills off his Bond to inhabit a dissolute American expat in Luca Guadagnino’s handsome adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novella.
‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Review: When the World Is a Prison
Weekend, November 27
Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful drama about the authoritarian Iranian government breaks a fourth wall, with consequences.
‘Moana 2’ Review: It Doesn’t Rock the Boat
Weekend, November 27
In this benign sequel, the Disney princess continues her seafaring ways and remains admirably uninterested in finding a prince.
The Complexities of Fighting for Democracy
Culture, November 22
“Night Is Not Eternal,” which follows the Cuban activist Rosa María Payá, is the rare nuanced political documentary that is likely to challenge every viewer’s perspective.
‘Spellbound’ Review: Borrowed Wonder
Weekend, November 22
Any magic this animated musical has feels distinctly, almost insultingly poached.
‘Gladiator II’ Review: Thumb’s Up!
Weekend, November 21
Denzel Washington’s performance shows skill, intensity and absolute confidence in Ridley Scott’s pleasurably immersive epic about ancient Roman fighters.
‘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.