Minari
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG-13 | Drama | Directed by Lee Isaac Chung
Steven Yeun plays the patriarch of an immigrant family adjusting to American rural life in Lee Isaac Chung’s lovely new film
Yeri Han and Steven Yeun in “Minari,” about a Korean-American family that moves to the Ozarks.
By A.O. SCOTT
Judas and the Black Messiah
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Biography, Drama, History | Directed by Shaka King
In Shaka King’s historical drama, Daniel Kaluuya plays the radical leader Fred Hampton, with Lakeith Stanfield as the informer who betrayed him.
A Marxist-Leninist messiah: Daniel Kaluuya (second from left) as Fred Hampton, with, from left, Dominque Thorne, Darrell Britt-Gibson and Caleb Eberhardt.
By A.O. SCOTT
Land
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG-13 | Drama | Directed by Robin Wright
In her feature directing debut, Robin Wright plays a woman who moves alone to the mountains.
Robin Wright in “Land,” which she also directed.
By GLENN KENNY
The World to Come
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Drama | Directed by Mona Fastvold
Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby play two women who share a gradually recognized love in upstate New York in 1856.
Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby in “The World to Come.”
By BEN KENIGSBERG
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To All the Boys: Always and Forever
Comedy, Drama, Romance | Directed by Michael Fimognari
This final installment of the Netflix rom-com trilogy is earnest, bright-eyed and without a hint of cynicism.
Noah Centineo and Lana Condor in “To All the Boys: Always and Forever.”
By MAYA PHILLIPS
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
PG-13 | Comedy | Directed by Josh Greenbaum
The “Bridesmaids” writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo nix the raunch for an absurdist adventure complete with musical numbers, an evil underground lair, and a talking crab.
Kristen Wig as Star and Annie Mumolo as Barb in “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.”
By BEATRICE LOAYZA
Lapsis
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Directed by Noah Hutton
Noah Hutton’s good-humored sci-fi movie takes aim at corporate greed and worker exploitation.
Dean Imperial in “Lapsis.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
There Is No I in Threesome
TV-MA | Documentary | Directed by Jan Oliver Lucks
A director and his fiancée chronicle their yearlong open relationship in this documentary that offers a clever examination of perspective.
Jan Oliver Lucks, right, with Zoe in the documentary “There Is No ‘I’ In Threesome.”
By NATALIA WINKELMAN