NYT Critic’s Pick Movie(s)

Saint Omer
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG-13 | Drama | Directed by Alice Diop
A real-life case of infanticide is the basis of Alice Diop’s rigorous and wrenching courtroom drama.


Guslagie Malanda in “Saint Omer,” based on a real-life trial in France that the filmmaker, Alice Diop, attended.
By A.O. SCOTT

Skinamarink
NYT Critic’s Pick | Horror | Directed by Kyle Edward Ball
Two children are trapped in a shape-shifting home in this spookily impenetrable horror experiment.


A scene from “Skinamarink.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS