El Conde
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Comedy, Fantasy, History, Horror | Directed by Pablo Larraín
The Chilean director Pablo Larraín makes the dictator Augusto Pinochet a vampire in this horror spoof.

President Salvador Allende of Chile, as seen in the documentary “The First Year.”
By AMY NICHOLSON

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A Million Miles Away
PG | Drama | Directed by Alejandra Márquez Abella
In this biopic, a boy from a family of migrant farm workers watches the moon landing in 1969, which ignites his desire to be an astronaut.
By CONCEPCIÓN DE LEÓN

The Inventor
PG | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family | Directed by Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon
This playful movie uses stop-motion and hand-drawn animation to pay homage to Leonardo as a thinker and tinkerer.
By LISA KENNEDY

Canary
Not Rated | Documentary | Directed by Danny O’Malley, Alex Rivest
A documentary traces the efforts of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, a scientist who starting collecting evidence of global warming in the 1970s.
By NICOLAS RAPOLD