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  • Comedy, Drama
  • Directed by Mark H. Rapaport

Trafficking in irreverence, the film follows a pair of stepsiblings with sexual tension.

By Natalia Winkelman

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Youth (Homecoming)

  • Documentary
  • Directed by Wang Bing

In the finale of Wang Bing’s nonfiction trilogy, garment-factory workers return to their families and wrestle with the questions all young people do.

By Alissa Wilkinson

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The Last Rifleman

  • Directed by Terry Loane

Pierce Brosnan plays a man who sneaks out of his retirement home to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in this charming, but corny drama.

By Amy Nicholson

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Meanwhile on Earth

  • Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
  • Directed by Jérémy Clapin

A bereaved young woman faces terrible choices in this dreamily uncertain blend of science fiction and moral philosophy.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

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Christmas Eve in Miller's Point

  • NYT Critic’s Pick
  • Directed by Tyler Taormina

Tyler Taormina’s third theatrical feature is a lightly nostalgic ensemble piece set on Long Island.

By Ben Kenigsberg

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Small Things Like These

  • Drama, History
  • Directed by Tim Mielants

Cillian Murphy of “Oppenheimer” fame plays an Irishman interrogating a system of abuse and forced labor, despite everyone’s warnings to look the other way.

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  • Horror, Thriller
  • Directed by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods

In wily, vamping style, the actor plays a friendly neighbor to two missionaries before turning his home into a horror-filled slaughterhouse.

By Manohla Dargis

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

  • Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
  • Directed by Dallas Jenkins

The film, based on a 1972 children’s book by Barbara Robinson, tells the story of an unlikely group of kids stunning a small town for the holidays.

By Glenn Kenny

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  • Directed by Andrea Arnold

Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski star in a film about a preteen girl who longs for a stability she’s never experienced.

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  • Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • Directed by George Nolfi

Humans flee monsters who refuse to surpass 8,000 feet in altitude in this “Quiet Place” copycat.

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Meet Me Next Christmas

  • Comedy, Romance
  • Directed by Rusty Cundieff

This Netflix Christmas rom-com inexplicably wants to remind viewers that the group Pentatonix still exists.

By Brandon Yu

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Pedro Páramo

  • Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Western
  • Directed by Rodrigo Prieto

In this grave adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s surreal novel, the living pray for salvation and the dead murmur regrets, but the filmmaking is oddly orthodox.

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  • Directed by R.J. Cutler

“Martha,” from R.J. Cutler, argues that she was ahead of her time. But though she sits for a lengthy interview, this isn’t hagiography.

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  • Directed by Clint Eastwood

In his latest (and perhaps last) movie as a director, Eastwood casts a skeptical eye at the criminal justice system in a mystery starring Nicholas Hoult.

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The Graduates

  • Directed by Hannah Peterson

In this delicate drama set in Utah, three individuals deal with survivor’s guilt a year after a school shooting takes the life of a loved one.

By Beatrice Loayza

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  • Action, Drama, History, War
  • Directed by Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen’s World War II drama may appear conventional on the surface, but don’t miss what it’s really doing.

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  • Directed by Isaiah Lester, Yassir Lester

This bowling comedy, co-directed by the standup comedian Yassir Lester and his brother Isaiah, has absurdity to spare.

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Chasing Chasing Amy

  • Directed by Sav Rodgers

Sav Rodgers sets out to define the legacy of Kevin Smith’s “Chasing Amy” in this documentary, which is elevated by one instructive interview.

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  • Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Directed by Hans Petter Moland

Liam Neeson plays a regretful gangster with a serious medical condition in this drab, downbeat action movie.

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Youth (Hard Times)

In Wang Bing’s riveting new documentary about Chinese garment workers, a generation asks: What good is money when you have no rights?

By Nicolas Rapold

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

  • Directed by Johan Grimonprez

A passionate and propulsive documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba spins its web in many directions.

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A Real Pain

  • Directed by Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg directs and stars in a melancholic yet funny exploration of Jewish loss and belonging, with an outstanding Kieran Culkin.

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Lost on a Mountain in Maine

  • Adventure, Drama, Family
  • Directed by Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger

The true story of a 12-year-old’s survival in a vast mountain wilderness for nine days in the 1930s.

By Lisa Kennedy

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After: Poetry Destroys Silence

  • Directed by Richard Kroehling

Richard Kroehling’s documentary presents a mixture of poets’ responses to the Holocaust and argues for the importance of the form in addressing trauma.

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  • Directed by Robert Zemeckis

Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite onscreen for a drama that showcases generations of existence.

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  • Directed by Mati Diop

Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892.

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  • Directed by Edward Berger

This film, based on Robert Harris’s 2016 thriller of the same title, centers on a British cardinal (a sensational Ralph Fiennes), and a campaign for a new pope.

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Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

  • Documentary, Biography
  • Directed by Thom Zimny

At 75, Springsteen is doggedly committed to live performance. This documentary chronicles how he keeps up on tour, and why.

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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

  • Directed by Mark Cousins

A richly detailed essay film imagines Hitchcock commenting on his own oeuvre over a mesmerizing daisy chain of clips.

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  • Directed by Sam Yates

Daisy Ridley plays a time bomb with a simmering fuse in this slow yet gripping adultery thriller.

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