Fallen Leaves
NYT Critic’s Pick | Not Rated | Comedy, Drama | Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
In the latest from the Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki, two lonely people find each other with tenderness, karaoke and deadpan comedy.

Quiet attraction: Jussi Vatanen, left, and Alma Poysti in“Fallen Leaves.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

The Strangler
NYT Critic’s Pick | Not Rated | Crime, Drama | Directed by Paul Vecchiali
This strange, seductive film from 1970, directed by Paul Vecchiali, borrows the conventions of the serial-killer thriller and turns them inside out.

Jacques Perrin in “The Strangler,” from 1970.
By BEATRICE LOAYZA

The Lady Bird Diaries
NYT Critic’s Pick | Not Rated | Documentary | Directed by Dawn Porter
Lady Bird Johnson proves an engrossing narrator to her own story and that of a roiling nation.

Lady Bird Johnson, right, beside her husband, the newly sworn-in president Lyndon B. Johnson, upon their return to Washington from Dallas, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
By LISA KENNEDY

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War | Directed by Francis Lawrence
This slow-burning prequel tells the origin story of Coriolanus Snow, the future president of Panem.
By AMY NICHOLSON