Descendant
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG | Documentary, History | Directed by Margaret Brown
This documentary recounts the salvaging of the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to America, and tracks down their progeny.

Veda Tunstall, one of the interview subjects in Margaret Brown’s documentary “Descendant.”
By LISA KENNEDY

All That Breathes
NYT Critic’s Pick | Documentary | Directed by Shaunak Sen
Shaunak Sen’s poetic documentary chronicles the efforts of three New Delhi men to help the city’s birds of prey.

A scene from “All That Breathes,” a documentary | Directed by Shaunak Sen.
By A.O. SCOTT

Aftersun
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Drama | Directed by Charlotte Wells
A daughter’s memory of a vacation in Turkey is at the heart of Charlotte Wells’s astonishing and devastating debut feature.

Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal in “Aftersun,” from the Scottish director Charlotte Wells.
By A.O. SCOTT

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Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography | Directed by Laurent Bouzereau
In this documentary, the Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black looks at how his relationship with his mother motivated his L.G.B.T.Q. activism.
By KYLE TURNER

Black Adam
PG-13 | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Dwayne Johnson stars in this overstuffed superhero film about an ancient figure granted god powers.
By MAYA PHILLIPS

The Pez Outlaw
Documentary, Comedy, Family, Romance | Directed by Amy Bandlien Storkel, Bryan Storkel
A purveyor of candy contraband becomes a black market hero in this blithe, lighthearted documentary.
By CALUM MARSH

My Policeman
R | Drama, Romance | Directed by Michael Grandage
A schoolteacher, her police officer husband and his lover deny each other romantic satisfaction in this dismal melodrama.
By TEO BUGBEE

Voodoo Macbeth
Drama | Directed by Dagmawi Abebe, Victor Alonso-Berbel, Roy Arwas, Hannah Bang, Christopher Beaton, Agazi Desta, Tiffany K. Guillen, Zoe Salnave, Ernesto Sandoval, Sabina Vajraca
A historical look back at Orson Welles’s production of “Macbeth” with an all-Black cast in Harlem in the 1930s.
By BEANDREA JULY