Infinite Football
NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
By its end, the Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu’s new documentary, nominally about world’s most popular sport, moves onto a plane of mysticism.
By GLENN KENNY

Number 37
NYT Critic’s Pick Thriller Directed by Nosipho Dumisa
This slick film is cheerfully derivative yet doggedly entertaining.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Weightless
NYT Critic’s Pick R Drama Directed by Jaron Albertin
The film, with a screenplay by the playwright Enda Walsh and the director Jaron Albertin, follows a mentally ill man reuniting with his 10-year-old son.
By KEN JAWOROWSKI

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
NYT Critic’s Pick R Comedy, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Western Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
A.O. Scott says this cowboy anthology is among the silliest Coen brothers films, and also one of the grimmest.
By A.O. SCOTT

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
PG-13 Adventure, Family, Fantasy Directed by David Yates
This second installment in J.K. Rowling’s series about a “magizoologist” is so freighted with foreboding that even the would-be whimsy feels leaden.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Outlaw King
R Action, Biography, Drama, History Directed by David Mackenzie
Chris Pine stars in a historical slog about Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) that is little more than a churn of mud, entrails and misty nationalism.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Postcards from London
Drama Directed by Steve McLean
Steve McLean’s film is a pretty movie about pretty boys.
By BILGE EBIRI

El Angel
Biography, Crime, Drama Directed by Luis Ortega
The film, which was inspired by a real-life killer, follows Carlitos as he moves from one transgression to the next.
By BEN KENIGSBERG

The Grinch
PG Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy Directed by Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier
Aside from colorful computer animation and enhanced cuteness for the lovable sidekick dog, Max, this new “Grinch” brings little of note to the table.
By GLENN KENNY

Pimp
Drama Directed by Christine Crokos
This lurid melodrama follows a female pimp (Keke Palmer) and her girlfriend-prostitute.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Chef Flynn
Documentary Directed by Cameron Yates
This documentary from Cameron Yates looks at Flynn McGarry, a young innovator in dining who tries to live up to his hype.
By GLENN KENNY

The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story
R Crime, Drama, Thriller Directed by Fede Alvarez
In the latest and emptiest Salander vehicle, the character’s unclassifiable quality has been dulled and contained.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

The Other Side of the Wind
NYT Critic’s Pick R Comedy, Drama Directed by Orson Welles
Welles’s last project is something of a seductive tease, a film that at times entrances and delights and at times offends and embarrasses.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

A Private War
NYT Critic’s Pick R Biography, Drama, War Directed by Matthew Heineman
Rosamund Pike’s powerhouse lead performance anchors Matthew Heineman’s raw, moving portrait of the war correspondent.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Searching for Ingmar Bergman
NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Felix Moeller, Margarethe von Trotta, Bettina Böhler
A new documentary featuring interviews with collaborators and critics makes clear that Bergman, for all his depth, was also an entertainer.
By GLENN KENNY

Maria by Callas
NYT Critic’s Pick PG Documentary, Biography Directed by Tom Volf
The film proposes a corrective to the notion that Callas was a diva both onstage and off.
By BEN KENIGSBERG

Bodied
NYT Critic’s Pick R Comedy, Drama, Music Directed by Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn’s outrageously smart film uses the battle rap scene to grab P.C. culture by the neck and squeeze.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

The Grief of Others
NYT Critic’s Pick Drama Directed by Patrick Wang
Patrick Wang’s film, getting a long-overdue theatrical release, looks at a troubled family’s inability to mourn.
By BILGE EBIRI

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Boy Erased
R Biography, Drama Directed by Joel Edgerton
Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe star in a true story about a discredited (but still practiced) “treatment” for homosexuality.
By A.O. SCOTT

Bohemian Rhapsody
PG-13 Biography, Drama, Music Directed by Bryan Singer
Rami Malek wears prosthetic choppers in a by-the-book biopic of Freddie Mercury and Queen.
By A.O. SCOTT