Kimi
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Zoë Kravitz stars in the latest from Steven Soderbergh, a story that plays with genre, triggers your anxieties and shreds your nerves.

Zoë Kravitz in Steven Soderbergh’s woman-in-peril movie “KIMI.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Playground
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama | Directed by Laura Wandel
In this stunning Belgian drama, a little girl and her brother go to school, read, write, fight and learn some brutal lessons about life.

Family ties: Maya Vanderbeque, left, and Günter Duret play brother and sister in Laura Wandel’s “Playground.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

The Sky Is Everywhere
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG-13 | Drama | Directed by Josephine Decker
Josephine Decker unlooses a slipstream of adolescent passion and anguish in this radiant drama about a musician grieving the loss of her big sister.

Jacques Colimon, left, with Grace Kaufman in “The Sky Is Everywhere.”
By NATALIA WINKELMAN

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The Fabulous Filipino Brothers
Comedy, Romance | Directed by Dante Basco
The Abasta family of California is celebrating a wedding. The Basco family writes, directs and stars in this warm, welcoming comedy.
By TEO BUGBEE

Death on the Nile
PG-13 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh’s second adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot stories forgets the simple pleasures of ensemble excess and pure messing about.
By NICOLAS RAPOLD

Indemnity
Action, Thriller | Directed by Travis Taute
This South African thriller trades plausibility and originality for a worthy substitute: a great deal of fun.
By DEVIKA GIRISH

Big Bug
TV-MA | Comedy, Sci-Fi | Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
A squabbling family is locked in its home by robots in this overlong artificial-intelligence comedy on Netflix.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS