Mangrove
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama | Directed by Steve McQueen
The first episode in Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology dramatizes protest and police brutality in 1960s London.

Shaun Parkes as Frank Crichlow and Letitia Wright as Altheia Jones-LeCointe in “Mangrove,” part of the | Director Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology of five films.
By A.O. SCOTT

Collective
NYT Critic’s Pick | Not Rated | Documentary | Directed by Alexander Nanau
The shocking Romanian documentary “Collective” revisits a 2015 fire that killed scores of people and brought down the government.

The newspaper editor Catalin Tolontan in Alexander Nanau’s documentary “Collective,” about the scandals that followed a deadly 2015 fire in Bucharest.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Sound of Metal
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Drama, Music | Directed by Darius Marder
Riz Ahmed is touchingly credible as a musician who loses his hearing in this unusual drama.

Riz Ahmed in “Sound of Metal.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Born to Be
NYT Critic’s Pick | Documentary | Directed by Tania Cypriano
This documentary follows Dr. Jess Ting in his work at Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.

Dr. Jess Ting with Jordan, a patient, in “Born to Be.”
By GLENN KENNY

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Anu Mosir
Drama | ected by Takeshi Fukunaga
This quietly observed drama follows a teenager living in a community of Ainu people in Hokkaido, Japan struggling to preserve their culture.

Kanto Shimokura in “Ainu Mosir.”Credit…
By NATALIA WINKELMAN