Crimes of the Future
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | Directed by David Cronenberg
In his latest shocker, David Cronenberg prophetically reads the signs while Léa Seydoux performs surgeries on a beatific Viggo Mortensen.

From left, Léa Seydoux, Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart in “Crimes of the Future.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Neptune Frost
NYT Critic’s Pick | Musical, Sci-Fi | Directed by Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
An Afrofuturist fantasia about the state of the world and how to resist it.

Cheryl Isheja in “Neptune Frost,” Directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman.
By A.O. SCOTT

Watcher
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Drama, Horror, Thriller | Directed by Chloe Okuno
In Chloe Okuno’s taut first feature, a woman is convinced a man is watching and possibly even following her.

Maika Monroe in “Watcher.”
By LENA WILSON

— Of Possible Interest —

After Blue
Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Directed by Bertrand Mandico
A planet of women is the eye-popping setting for this psychedelic movie, in which a mother and her daughter try to find an escaped criminal named Kate Bush.
By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

Maika
PG | Adventure, Comedy, Family | Directed by Ham Tran
This children’s adventure movie from Vietnam is like “E.T.”—but sloppier and more eccentric.
By BEATRICE LOAYZA

Fire Island
R | Comedy, Romance | Directed by Andrew Ahn
The quips are almost as hot as the sexual tension in Andrew Ahn and Joel Kim Booster’s loosely paced but endearing romantic comedy.
By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

Benediction
PG-13 | Biography, Drama, War | Directed by Terence Davies
Terence Davies’s latest film is a biography of Siegfried Sassoon, whose writing about World War I changed British literature.
By A.O. SCOTT