Youth (Spring)
NYT Critic’s Pick | Not Rated | Documentary | Directed by Wang Bing
The documentarian Wang Bing examines the cloistered world of young textile workers in China.

Workers at a factory in the documentary “Youth (Spring).”
By BEN KENIGSBERG

Dream Scenario
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Comedy, Horror | Directed by Kristoffer Borgli
Nicolas Cage plays a mild-mannered professor who inexplicably wanders into others’ dreams in this wonderfully weird dark comedy.

Nicolas Cage and Julianne Nicholson in “Dream Scenario.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

A Still Small Voice
NYT Critic’s Pick | Not Rated | Documentary | Directed by Luke Lorentzen
This absorbing documentary follows a chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

Mati, the chaplain at the center of the documentary “A Still Small Voice.”
By AMY NICHOLSON

Orlando, My Political Biography
NYT Critic’s Pick | Not Rated | Documentary | Directed by Paul B. Preciado
The filmmaker Paul B. Preciado shares the title role with 20 trans and nonbinary performers to make a point about the cage of identity.

Written and directed by the philosopher and activist Paul B. Preciado, the movie draws inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

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The Marvels
PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Directed by Nia DaCosta
Brie Larson stars alongside two Disney+ stars in this trope-ridden franchise installment, the 33rd movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
By MANOHLA DARGIS