Rise
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG | Biography, Drama, Sport | Directed by Akin Omotoso
The story of the real-life N.B.A. superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo is told with heartfelt charm in this endearing Disney+ biopic.

Ral Agada, left, and Uche Agada in “Rise.”
By CALUM MARSH

Beba
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Documentary | Directed by Rebeca Huntt
An Afro-Latina filmmaker explores her identity and generational trauma growing up in New York City and attending a predominantly white college.

Rebeca Huntt in “Beba,” her documentary about growing up Afro-Latina in New York.
By CONCEPCIÓN DE LEÓN

We
NYT Critic’s Pick | Documentary | Directed by Alice Diop
Alice Diop’s observational documentary is a beautiful, loose-limned portrait of Paris’s suburbs.

Young residents of Paris’s suburbs in the documentary ‘We.’
By DEVIKA GIRISH

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
NYT Critic’s Pick | Animation, Comedy | Directed by Mike Judge
Even though you can guess what these two characters will say as they’re sucked into a black hole, their cosmic adventure still delivers new laughs.

The title characters are dropped into 2022 in “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe.”
By GLENN KENNY

Flux Gourmet
NYT Critic’s Pick | Comedy, Drama, Horror | Directed by Peter Strickland
Peter Strickland’s latest film is a speculative comedy about art, desire and gastrointestinal discomfort.

Asa Butterfield, Fatma Mohamed and Ariane Labed in “Flux Gourmet.”
By A.O. SCOTT

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Wildhood
Drama | Directed by Bretten Hannam
Three young men explore their Indigenous heritage and questions about their gender and sexual identity in this film.
By NATALIA WINKELMAN

Lost Illusions
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama, History, Romance | Directed by Xavier Giannoli
Xavier Giannoli’s headlong adaptation of a Balzac novel paints a timely picture of literary ambition and media corruption in 19th-century France.

A writer and his editor: Benjamin Voisin, left, and Vincent Lacoste in “Lost Illusions.”
By A.O. SCOTT

Tahara
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama | Directed by Olivia Peace
Rachel Sennott and Madeline Grey DeFreece star in a canny portrait of teenage insensitivity and sexuality amid a tragedy.

Madeline Grey DeFreece, left, and Rachel Sennott in “Tahara.”
By TEO BUGBEE

A Sexplanation
NYT Critic’s Pick | Documentary, Comedy, News | Directed by Alex Liu
The director Alex Liu explores the politics and culture of sex ed in the United States while confronting his own shame around sexuality.

Alex Liu in “A Sexplanation.”
By CLAIRE SHAFFER

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Being BeBe
NYT Critic’s Pick | Documentary | Directed by Emily Branham
Observing its subject with a clear eye, this profile of Marshall Ngwa, who performs as BeBe Zahara Benet, is a breath of fresh air.

BeBe Zahara Benet in the documentary “Being BeBe.”
By NATALIA WINKELMAN

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Jurassic World Dominion
PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Directed by Colin Trevorrow
Things get very hectic in the last episode of this trilogy, which brings back familiar faces (Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Sam Neill) along with the usual dinosaurs.
By A.O. SCOTT

Crimes of the Future
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | Directed by David Cronenberg
In his latest shocker, David Cronenberg prophetically reads the signs while Léa Seydoux performs surgeries on a beatific Viggo Mortensen.

From left, Léa Seydoux, Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart in “Crimes of the Future.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Neptune Frost
NYT Critic’s Pick | Musical, Sci-Fi | Directed by Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
An Afrofuturist fantasia about the state of the world and how to resist it.

Cheryl Isheja in “Neptune Frost,” Directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman.
By A.O. SCOTT

Watcher
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Drama, Horror, Thriller | Directed by Chloe Okuno
In Chloe Okuno’s taut first feature, a woman is convinced a man is watching and possibly even following her.

Maika Monroe in “Watcher.”
By LENA WILSON

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After Blue
Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Directed by Bertrand Mandico
A planet of women is the eye-popping setting for this psychedelic movie, in which a mother and her daughter try to find an escaped criminal named Kate Bush.
By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

Maika
PG | Adventure, Comedy, Family | Directed by Ham Tran
This children’s adventure movie from Vietnam is like “E.T.”—but sloppier and more eccentric.
By BEATRICE LOAYZA

Fire Island
R | Comedy, Romance | Directed by Andrew Ahn
The quips are almost as hot as the sexual tension in Andrew Ahn and Joel Kim Booster’s loosely paced but endearing romantic comedy.
By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

Benediction
PG-13 | Biography, Drama, War | Directed by Terence Davies
Terence Davies’s latest film is a biography of Siegfried Sassoon, whose writing about World War I changed British literature.
By A.O. SCOTT

Paris, 13th District
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Directed by Jacques Audiard
In his latest movie, the French director Jacques Audiard tells the story of lovers finding their way in Paris.

Lucie Zhang and Makita Samba in Jacques Audiard’s “Paris, 13th District.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

The Tale of King Crab
NYT Critic’s Pick | Adventure, Drama | Directed by Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
This fiction feature debut follows a scandalous son of a physician turned adventurer in spite of himself.

Gabriele Silli as Luciano in “The Tale of King Crab,” a film from Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis.
By GLENN KENNY

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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
PG-13 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | Directed by David Yates
Mads Mikkelsen plays an evil wizard with political talent in the latest “Harry Potter” spinoff movie, which also stars Jude Law and Eddie Redmayne.
By AMY NICHOLSON

RRR
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG-13 | Action, Drama | Directed by S.S. Rajamouli
Scenes of glorious excess make the screen hum with energy in S.S. Rajamouli’s action epic set in British colonial India.

N.T. Rama Rao Jr. in “RRR.”
By NICOLAS RAPOLD

Donbass
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama | Directed by Sergey Loznitsa
Sergei Loznitsa’s film, completed in 2018, presents an absurd, horrific tableau of cruelty and corruption.

A scene from “Donbass,” Directed by Sergei Loznitsa.
By A.O. SCOTT

The Girl and the Spider2
NYT Critic’s Pick | Unrated | Drama | Directed by Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher
The twin brothers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher have created a wonderfully discombobulating feature about an apartment move.

Henriette Confurius, left, and Sabine Timoteo in “The Girl and the Spider.”
By BEN KENIGSBERG

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Sonic the Hedgehog 22
PG | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Directed by Jeff Fowler
Jim Carrey’s reprised role as a villainous weirdo helps this fast-paced, family-friendly video-game-movie sequel maintain a refreshing silliness.
By AMY NICHOLSON

Nitram
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama, Thriller | Directed by Justin Kurzel
In this unnerving drama based on a true crime, a lonely outsider reaches his breaking point.

Caleb Landry Jones stars in “Nitram.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

You Won’t Be Alone
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Drama, Horror | Directed by Goran Stolevski
A supernaturally altered young woman learns how to be human in this mesmerizing folk-horror tale.

Sara Klimoska, left, and Anamaria Marinca in “You Won’t Be Alone.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Babi Yar. Context
NYT Critic’s Pick | Documentary, History | Directed by Sergey Loznitsa
Sergei Loznitsa’s new documentary, about the mass murder of Ukrainian Jews in 1941, arrives in theaters with a grim context of its own.

Sergei Loznitsa’s new documentary “Babi Yar: Context,” about a Nazi-led massacre in Ukraine, is made from footage Germans and Soviets recorded of their campaigns there.
By A.O. SCOTT

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Moonshot
PG-13 | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi | Directed by Christopher Winterbauer
Cole Sprouse and Lana Condor have a meet-cute en route to Mars in the young adult rom-com “Moonshot,” streaming on HBO Max.
By CALUM MARSH

Better Nate Than Ever
PG | Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical | Directed by Tim Federle
Hearty performances elevate this effusive Disney+ family comedy, even as the movie itself is awkward in its handling of its core subject.
By AMY NICHOLSON

The Rose Maker
Comedy | Directed by Pierre Pinaud
A boutique cultivator competing with industrial farms initiates a war of the roses in this gentle French comedy by Pierre Pinaud.
By TEO BUGBEE

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
PG-13 | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi | Directed by Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater’s new animated film tells the story of the moon landing with some tongue-in-cheek revisionism.
By A.O. SCOTT

Everything Everywhere All at Once
NYT Critic’s Pick } R | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Directed by Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Michelle Yeoh stars as a stressed-out laundromat owner dragged into cosmic battle and genre chaos.

From left, Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, who play a beleaguered family in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
By A.O. SCOTT

You Are Not My Mother
NYT Critic’s Pick } Drama, Horror | Directed by Kate Dolan
A lonely teenager is traumatized by her mother’s volatile behavior in this impressive horror debut.

Hazel Doupe and Ingrid Craigie in “You Are Not My Mother.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Wood and Water
NYT Critic’s Pick } Drama | Directed by Jonas Bak
In this elegant feature debut about modern alienation, the German writer-director Jonas Bak casts his real-life mother as a retired secretary who travels to Hong Kong to visit her estranged son.

Anke Bak and Patrick Lo in “Wood and Water.”
By BEATRICE LOAYZA

Superior
NYT Critic’s Pick } Drama, Thriller | Directed by Erin Vassilopoulos
Two identical sisters reunite under mysterious circumstances in a compelling debut feature from Erin Vassilopoulos.

Ani Mesa in “Superior.”
By AMY NICHOLSON

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The Lost City
PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | Directed by Aaron Nee, Adam Nee
Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and a vamping Brad Pitt run around in a romantic adventure that you have seen before and will see again.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Mothering Sunday
R | Drama, Romance | Directed by Eva Husson
A fine British cast is featured in this mildly transgressive love story set in the aftermath of World War I.
By A.O. SCOTT

— And Now for Something Completely Different —

THE PROJECTIONIST
Oscars 2022 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress?
In an interesting year with a duel for the top award and some wide-open races, here’s how our expert is marking his ballot.
By Kyle Buchanan

2022 OSCARS BALLOT

Întregalde
NYT Critic’s Pick | Comedy, Drama | Directed by Radu Muntean
A Romanian satire charts what happens when some humanitarian aid workers set out to save others (and need to be saved themselves).

A bump in the road to good works: from left, Ilona Brezoianu, Maria Popistasu and Alex Bogdan in “Intregalde.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

X
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Horror | Directed by Ti West
Ti West’s latest is a slasher film about the making of a porno film, but the result might not be what you expect.

Mia Goth in “X,” from the director Ti West, whose inspirations appear to include “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Debbie Does Dallas.”
By A.O. SCOTT

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More Than Robots
Documentary | Directed by Gillian Jacobs
Despite the movie’s title, robots are the subject and spectacle of this lighthearted film about a high school robotics competition.
By TEO BUGBEE

All My Friends Hate Me
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Comedy, Horror | Directed by Andrew Gaynord
Things turn nasty when a peculiar stranger infiltrates a reunion of college pals in this clever horror-comedy.

From left, Georgina Campbell, Graham Dickson, Tom Stourton, Antonia Clarke and Joshua McGuire in “All My Friends Hate Me.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

— Of Possible Interest —

Last Exit: Space
Documentary | Directed by Rudolph Herzog
The director Rudolph Herzog, with his father, Werner Herzog, narrating, explores the feasibility of off-world colonization.
By BEN KENIGSBERG

Turning Red
PG | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | Directed by Domee Shi
A 13-year-old girl becomes a red panda when she loses her cool in Domee Shi’s heartwarming but wayward coming-of-age film.
By MAYA PHILLIPS

Ultrasound
Sci-Fi | Directed by Rob Schroeder
This genre hybrid opens on a dark, stormy night, takes a turn into a narrative maze only to dead end despite some promising kinks.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Gold
R | Action, Thriller | Directed by Anthony Hayes
Zac Efron stars in an unrelentingly miserable post-apocalyptic movie from the Australian actor and director Anthony Hayes.
By AMY NICHOLSON

The Adam Project
PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | Directed by Shawn Levy
Ryan Reynolds plays a time traveling wise cracker in Shawn Levy’s science fiction adventure.
By NATALIA WINKELMAN

The Cherry Bushido
PG-13 | Drama, Fantasy | Directed by Hiroshi Akabane
Japanese nationalism and religious faith fuel a battle in the spirit realm in this awkward martial-arts fantasy.
By WESLEY MORRIS

— And now for something completely different —

How Well Do You Know ‘The Godfather’? The Quiz Nobody Asked For
Accept this quiz as a gift for the film’s 50th anniversary.
By TALA SAFIE

L’inconnu de Shandigor
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama, Action | Directed by Jean-Louis Roy
What if you had a formula to sterilize all the world’s nuclear weapons? This newly restored 1967 spy spoof suggests you’d be much sought-after.

Daniel Emilfork in “The Unknown Man of Shandigor.”
By GLENN KENNY

Great Freedom
NYT Critic’s Pick | Unrated | Drama | Directed by Sebastian Meise
In this moving period drama, a German gay man repeatedly declares his independence in a country that criminalizes his desire and his identity.

Only connect: Franz Rogowski in Sebastian Meise’s “Great Freedom.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Fresh
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | Directed by Mimi Cave
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan star in a dazzling (and very funny) cannibal romance from Mimi Cave.

Daisy Edgar-Jones in “Fresh.”
By AMY NICHOLSON

— Of Possible Interest —

The Batman
PG-13 | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery | Directed by Matt Reeves
Robert Pattinson puts on the Batsuit and cats around with Zoë Kravitz in the latest attempt to reimagine the Caped Crusader.
By A.O. SCOTT

The Long Walk
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | Directed by Mattie Do
This Laotian drama from Mattie Do presents a world where spirits linger on into a future that has been shaped by technology.
By TEO BUGBEE

After Yang
PG | Drama, Sci-Fi | Directed by Kogonada
Colin Farrell plays a father who tries to repair the family’s caretaker-android in a science-fiction tale about what it means to be human.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Rock Bottom Riser
Documentary | Directed by Fern Silva
This experimental documentary takes viewers on a psychedelic tour of Hawaii, exploring the tension between scientific inquiry and Indigenous preservation.
By CONCEPCIÓN DE LEÓN