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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
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
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
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
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
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.
- 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
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
- 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.
- 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.
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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
- Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite onscreen for a drama that showcases generations of existence.
- Directed by Mati Diop
Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892.
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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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