Crip Camp
NYT Critic’s Pick R Documentary Directed by James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham
This feel-good documentary recounts the ties of a Catskills summer camp to American disability rights activism in the 1970s.
By BEN KENIGSBERG
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
NYT Critic’s Pick PG-13 Drama Directed by Eliza Hittman
In this stirring drama, the director Eliza Hittman tells an intimate story that is also a potent argument about self-determination.
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Human Nature
NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Adam Bolt
Adam Bolt’s new documentary focuses on Crispr technology, which can edit genes, thus giving people the ability to change human, animal and plant life.
By KEN JAWOROWSKI
Bacurau
NYT Critic’s Pick Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western Directed by Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
In this sensational genre whatsit, a town finds itself fighting for its very existence. (Good thing Sônia Braga lives there.)
By MANOHLA DARGIS
The Wild Goose Lake
NYT Critic’s Pick Crime, Drama Directed by Yi’nan Diao
This film is dark and moody like the old classics, but the director Diao Yinan has created a very contemporary crime drama.
By GLENN KENNY
Sorry We Missed You
NYT Critic’s Pick Drama Directed by Ken Loach
In this Ken Loach film, a British family that’s barely getting by faces the peril that is the gig economy.
By WESLEY MORRIS
First Cow
NYT Critic’s Pick PG-13 Drama Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Set in the mid-19th-century Oregon Territory, Kelly Reichardt’s latest film is a fable, a western, a buddy picture and a masterpiece.
By A.O. SCOTT
The Invisible Man
NYT Critic’s Pick R Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller Directed by Leigh Whannell
Elisabeth Moss stars in a scary update on the H.G. Wells classic that trades science-fiction shivers for #MeToo horror.
By MANOHLA DARGIS
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
NYT Critic’s Pick PG-13Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
This animated film distinguishes itself in the era of superhero supersaturation with bright, bold and surprisingly emotional filmmaking.
By TEO BUGBEE
Vitalina Varela
NYT Critic’s Pick Drama Directed by Pedro Costa
In the new drama from Pedro Costa, daylight, and hope, are hard to find.
By GLENN KENNY
Premature
NYT Critic’s Pick Unrated Drama, Romance Directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green
A romance threatens to derail a gifted teenager’s college plans in this sassy-sexy drama.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
The State Against Mandela and the Others
NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Nicolas Champeaux, Gilles Porte
Nelson Mandela’s trial nearly 60 years ago was not filmed, but the words spoken still echo loudly.
By GLENN KENNY
You go to my head
NYT Critic’s Pick Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller Directed by Dimitri de Clercq
A mysterious architect persuades an amnesiac that she’s his wife in this elusive romance set in the Sahara.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Buffaloed
NYT Critic’s Pick Comedy, Drama Directed by Tanya Wexler
Zoey Deutch’s pell-mell performance gives this debt-collection comedy the energy it needs.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
The Cordillera of Dreams
NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Patricio Guzmán
An exiled filmmaker returns to Chile, contemplating fascism and eternity.
By GLENN KENNY
Cane River
NYT Critic’s Pick Drama, Romance Directed by Horace Jenkins
Horace B. Jenkins’s tale of forbidden romance in Louisiana, completed in 1982, opens at last.
By A.O. SCOTT
Taylor Swift: Miss Americana
NYT Critic’s Pick TV-MA Documentary Directed by Lana Wilson
In the Netflix documentary, we see a star that is self-critical, grown up and ready, perhaps, to deliver a message beyond the music.
By WESLEY MORRIS
The Assistant
NYT Critic’s Pick R Drama Directed by Kitty Green
Julia Garner is magnificent as a conflicted staffer to a serial sexual predator in this powerfully muted drama.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Incitement
NYT Critic’s Pick Thriller Directed by Yaron Zilberman
Yaron Zilberman’s film presents a discomfortingly close-range depiction of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin in the period leading up to the killing.
By BEN KENIGSBERG
The Traitor
NYT Critic’s Pick R Biography, Crime, Drama Directed by Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio’s film tells the story of Tommaso Buscetta, a Sicilian Mafioso who became Italy’s most notorious informer in the 1980s.
By A.O. SCOTT
Beanpole
NYT Critic’s Pick Drama, War Directed by Kantemir Balagov
Set in the aftermath of World War II, this dazzling movie centers on two friends who are each casualties of a historical trauma.
By MANOHLA DARGIS