NYT Critic’s Pick Movie(s)

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Comedy | Directed by Adamma Ebo
Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown star in this satire about a fallen megachurch pastor and his first lady praying and angling for a comeback.


Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown play a couple desperate to revive their megachurch after a scandal.
By LISA KENNEDY

The Cathedral
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama | Directed by Ricky D’Ambrose
In this striking, formally rigorous drama, the director Ricky D’Ambrose revisits his Long Island childhood with restraint and tenderness.


In “The Cathedral,” Brian d’Arcy James, center, and Monica Barbaro, far right, play the protagonist’s parents, here at their wedding on Long Island in the 1980s.
By MANOHLA DARGIS