NYT Critic’s Pick Movie(s)

Lady Killer
The Strange Mister Victor
NYT Critic’s Pick
Two newly restored films by the director Jean Grémillon, whom cinephiles discuss like a special secret, get a second life in theaters.


Jean Gabin and Mireille Balin in “Lady Killer.”
By BEATRICE LOAYZA

Klondike
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama, War | Directed by Maryna Er Gorbach
In a film set in 2014, a couple in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine try to maintain normality as war rocks their home.


By BEN KENIGSBERG

Our Body
NYT Critic’s Pick | Documentary | Directed by Claire Simon
The French director Claire Simon’s profoundly humane documentary focuses on patients in the gynecology ward of a Paris hospital.


A scene from “Our Body.”
By LISA KENNEDY

Dreamin’ Wild
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG | Biography, Drama, Music | Directed by Bill Pohlad
A new film dramatizes the true story of two brothers thrust into the spotlight 30 years after the album they recorded as teenagers is discovered.


Casey Affleck and Zooey Deschanel star in “Dreamin’ Wild.”
By CLAIRE SHAFFER

War Pony
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Drama | Directed by Gina Gammell, Riley Keough
Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s stellar debut, starring many first-time actors, takes a deadpan look at a Lakota-Sioux reservation in South Dakota.


JWasose Garcia, left, and Jojo Bapteise Whiting in “War Pony.”
By AMY NICHOLSON