‘Challengers’ Review: Game, Set, Love Matches
Movies, Today
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play friends, lovers and foes on and off the tennis court in Luca Guadagnino’s latest.
‘Nowhere Special’ Review: Old Bonds, New Family
Movies, Today
This understated tear-jerker sees a dying single father making future family plans for his toddler son.
‘Infested’ Review: Bugging Out
Movies, Today
An apartment building in Paris is overrun by murderous arachnids and unsubtle allegory in this fleet and efficient debut feature.
‘Unsung Hero’ Review: Music Dedicated to the One They Love
Movies, Today
In fact, there’s a lot of singing in the clan whose members inspired this movie and who have racked up five Grammy Awards for their Christian recordings.
‘Terrestrial Verses’ Review: Sitting in the Bureaucrat’s Seat
Movies, Today
Ordinary Iranians face a maze of byzantine rules and small indignities in this series of gripping vignettes.
‘Humane’ Review: An Ethical Crisis and a Dinner Party
Movies, Today
Caitlin Cronenberg’s debut feature is set in a dystopian world that’s alarmingly believable.
‘The Feeling’ Review: Fifty Shades of Apathy
Movies, Today
In the sex comedy “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” Joanna Arnow keeps her scenes short and her expressions flat.
‘Boy Kills World’ Review: A Wide-Eyed Assassin
Movies, Today
Beefed up and bloodied, Bill Skarsgard goes mano a mano against disposable hordes in this dystopian action flick.
‘Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver’ Review: Of Stars and Wars
Weekend, April 19
A delirious, pulpy mishmash of knockoffs, Zack Snyder’s film isn’t good, but it sure is something.
‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: War, Undemanding
Weekend, April 18
Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing.
‘Stress Positions’ Review: It’s Giving Pandemonium
Weekend, April 18
The writer-director Theda Hammel’s biting, delirious quarantine comedy skewers white gay men in a world where fact, fiction and authentic experiences collide.
‘Blood for Dust’ Review: Dire Straits
Weekend, April 18
This drug-run thriller, starring Scoot McNairy, traffics in grim ponderousness.
‘We Grown Now’ Review: A Child’s Eye View
Weekend, April 18
Minhal Baig’s third feature follows two boys living in a public housing complex in Chicago as they cope by building their own dream worlds.
‘Egoist’ Review: A Romance With a Twist
Weekend, April 18
In this ultimately sentimental drama, a lonely fashion magazine editor in Tokyo meets a personal trainer with a secret.
‘Abigail’ Review: Horror by Numbers
Weekend, April 18
In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there be gore? You bet.
‘The Stranger’ Review: Somewhere Over the Freeway
Weekend, April 15
In this tense thriller on Hulu, Maika Monroe plays Clare, a Kansas transplant in Los Angeles who parallels Dorothy in Oz.
‘Food, Inc. 2’ Review: A Second Course
Weekend, April 11
Directed by Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo, the sequel about food production in the U.S. is, in some ways, a more hopeful film.
‘Omen’ Review: Life in a Different Space-Time Continuum
Weekend, April 11
This trippy ensemble drama set in Kinshasa explores Congolese society through magical realism.
‘Arcadian’ Review: Take Two as Needed for Postapocalyptic Pain
Weekend, April 11
Nicolas Cage defends his family against a paranormal siege in this derivative, low-budget creature feature.
‘Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead’ Review: The Laughs Are Alive
Weekend, April 11
Wade Allain-Marcus has directed a rollicking update of the 1991 cult favorite.
‘Sasquatch Sunset’ Review: Big Feet and Small Brains
Weekend, April 11
Four unrecognizably hairy actors, including Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough, play mythical creatures in this endearingly bonkers movie.
‘The Greatest Hits’ Review: Yes, She Could Turn Back Time.
Weekend, April 11
A high-concept movie about music and grief lacks follow through.
‘In Flames’ Review: A Patriarchy Horror Story
Weekend, April 11
Set in Pakistan, the story of a young woman and her family, hemmed in by men, shifts from realism to genre, with heart-pumping consequences.
‘Civil War’ Review: We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us. Again.
Weekend, April 11
In Alex Garland’s tough new movie, a group of journalists led by Kirsten Dunst, as a photographer, travels a United States at war with itself.
‘It’s Only Life After All’ Review: Indigo Girls Laugh Last
Weekend, April 10
The director Alexandria Bombach benefited from the musician Amy Ray’s archivist instincts in this warm, compelling new documentary.
‘Coup de Chance’ Review: Woody Allen’s Usual With a French Twist
Weekend, April 4
Despite its Parisian setting, the setup is familiar from any of Allen’s New York movies: An act of infidelity presents a dilemma. Some of the jokes are funny.
‘Monkey Man’ Review: Vengeance Is His
Weekend, April 4
Dev Patel stars as Kid, a human punching bag who comes up with a plan to avenge a past wrong. The hits keep coming and the hero keeps taking them in this rapid-fire film.
‘Yannick’ Review: First Act Problems
Weekend, April 4
Audience members revolting against bad art isn’t a new thing, but Quentin Dupieux puts a fresh twist on that theme in his surreal new comedy.
‘Scoop’ Review: The Story Behind That Prince Andrew Interview
Movies, April 4
In 2019, the prince went on air to respond to accusations involving Jeffery Epstein. The drama here is in how the BBC convinced him to do it.
‘The People’s Joker’ Review: A Wild Card
Weekend, April 4
Pure chaos is at play in a scrappy and unauthorized new parody about a character who looks a lot like the Joker. It’s a daring slice of queer cinema.
‘Kim’s Video’ Review: Following the Tapes to Italy
Weekend, April 4
This documentary details how the coolest video collection in downtown New York ended up in a small Italian town.
‘Housekeeping for Beginners’ Review: Daddy Nearest
Weekend, April 4
Sad news forces a diverse group of friends to take unorthodox action in this volatile, affecting drama.
‘Girls State’ Review: One Nation, Under Girls
Weekend, April 4
Balancing confidence with broad smiles, the high school students in this documentary understand that camaraderie goes hand in hand with political ambition.
‘The First Omen’ Review: The Days Before Damien
Weekend, April 4
A prequel to the original franchise, this debut feature from Arkasha Stevenson is a thrilling mash-up of horror tropes that gives the story new life.
‘Chicken for Linda!’ Review: A Comedy That Cooks
Weekend, April 4
In this madcap film, a mother’s apology leads to a delightful misadventure that begins with mourning and ends with a father’s favorite recipe.
‘The Beast’ Review: Master of Puppets
Weekend, April 4
Bertrand Bonello’s latest film, starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay as lovers in three different eras, is an audacious sci-fi romance.
‘The Old Oak’ Review: The Audacity of Hope
Weekend, April 4
A family of Syrian refugees connects with a once-thriving mining town in Ken Loach’s moving drama.
‘Música’ Review: What He Hears Is What We Get
Weekend, April 4
Rudy Mancuso stars in and directs an inventive debut feature about a man with synesthesia who tries to manage his complicated life and relationships.
‘La Chimera’ Review: A Treasure Trove
Weekend, March 28
In her latest dreamy movie, the Italian director Alice Rohrwacher follows a tomb raider, played by Josh O’Connor, who’s pining for a lost love.
‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Review: Running Out of Steam
Weekend, March 28
The latest in the Warner Bros. Monsterverse franchise shows signs of an anemic imagination.
‘On the Adamant’ Review: A Psychiatric Facility on the Seine
Weekend, March 28
This documentary by Nicolas Philibert drifts along, with unnamed patients and their caretakers, on a large houseboat in Paris.
‘DogMan’ Review: Crackers for Animals
Weekend, March 28
An electrifying Caleb Landry Jones plays the damaged heart of this oddly wonderful tale of resilience and revenge.
‘Lousy Carter’ Review: Blackboard Bungle
Weekend, March 28
A college professor gets a grim diagnosis in this comedy from Bob Byington.
‘The Beautiful Game’ Review: A Different Kind of World Cup
Weekend, March 28
This heart-string-tugging Netflix movie about a homeless soccer team, featuring Bill Nighy and Micheal Ward, puts the emphasis on play and uplift.
‘Asphalt City’ Review: Arbiters of Life and Death
Weekend, March 28
Sean Penn plays a flinty paramedic showing a rookie the ropes in this maddening drama about emergency medical workers in New York.
‘Wicked Little Letters’ Review: Prim, Proper and Profane
Weekend, March 28
Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley elevate a comedy about a weird true tale of defamation and dirty words.
‘The Listener’ Review: The Side Effects of Pandemic Living
Weekend, March 28
Tessa Thompson’s still and luminous performance makes this post-Covid drama about loneliness, directed by Steve Buscemi, worth watching.
‘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.