Funny Pages
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Comedy | Directed by Owen Kline
Owen Kline’s wonderful feature debut about an aspiring comic-book creator delves into a buzzingly alive, if anxious, world of cartooning.

In “Funny Pages,” Daniel Zolghadri plays a young cartoonist, who, though desperate for validation, seems to despise almost everyone.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Alienoid
NYT Critic’s Pick | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Directed by Dong-hoon Choi
This bonkers Korean movie could not pick just one cinematic genre, so it went for half a dozen of them at once.

Kim Woo-bin in “Alienoid.”
By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

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Private Desert
Unrated | Drama | Directed by Aly Muritiba
This L.G.B.T.Q. drama from Brazil follows a distraught police academy instructor with a history of violence as he searches for his mysterious online girlfriend.
By BEATRICE LOAYZA

Three Thousand Years of Longing
R | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Directed by George Miller
George Miller directs a visually sumptuous, grown-up fairy tale with Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. It jumps across time but too often just stumbles.
By MANOHLA DARGIS