The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open

NYT Critic’s Pick Drama Directed by Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Two indigenous women collide in an urgent, intimate drama about race, motherhood and domestic abuse.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Les Misérables

NYT Critic’s Pick R Crime, Drama, Thriller Directed by Ladj Ly
In modern-day Montfermeil, the setting of Victor Hugo’s novel, the filmmaker Ladj Ly stages his own impassioned cry against oppression.
By GLENN KENNY

63 Up

NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Michael Apted
Michael Apted revisits the people who have grown up, and grown older, in this long-running, landmark documentary series.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Queen & Slim

NYT Critic’s Pick R Drama Directed by Melina Matsoukas
Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith star in Melina Matsoukas’s dreamy but intense outlaw romance.
By A.O. SCOTT

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White Snake

Animation, Fantasy, Romance Directed by Amp Wong, Ji Zhao
Love is the answer, even when Romeo is a snake-catcher. Luckily, he’s not great at his job.
By KRISTEN YOONSOO KIM

Varda by Agnès

NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary, Biography Directed by Agnès Varda, Didier Rouget
In her last film, Agnès Varda sums up a six-decade career.
By A.O. SCOTT

Hala

NYT Critic’s Pick R Drama Directed by Minhal Baig
Geraldine Viswanathan is astonishingly resonant as a teenager testing the boundaries of faith, tradition and sexuality.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

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Frozen II

PG Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical Directed by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
The sisters and sidekicks from “Frozen” reconvene for another adventure with storms of feeling and a new power ballad.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood

PG Biography, Drama Directed by Marielle Heller
Tom Hanks plays Mister Rogers, the beloved children’s television host, as he comes to the aid of a suffering magazine writer.
By A.O. SCOTT

Waves

NYT Critic’s Pick R Drama, Romance, Sport Directed by Trey Edward Shults
The writer-director Trey Edward Shults tells the story of a family held together by love and nearly undone by tragedy.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Atlantics

NYT Critic’s Pick Drama Directed by Mati Diop
Mati Diop’s Cannes prize winner is a potent mix of genres and moods.
By A.O. SCOTT

Ford v Ferrari

NYT Critic’s Pick PG-13 Action, Biography, Drama, Sport Directed by James Mangold
Matt Damon and Christian Bale star in James Mangold’s look back at the golden age of auto racing.
By A.O. SCOTT

The Hottest August

NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Brett Story
The director draws on texts from Zadie Smith, Annie Dillard and Karl Marx for narration, but ospreys and a solar eclipse take more of a center stage.
By GLENN KENNY

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Matt Wolf
Matt Wolf’s documentary shows how one woman captured history by recording television news. The results are compelling.
By GLENN KENNY

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‘I Lost My Body’ Review: The Quest of a Severed Hand

There is no shortage of imagination in this animated feature. In fact, there may be more than you can stomach.
By Teo Bugbee

‘Klaus’ Review: A Santa Origin Story

A postman dashes through the snow with a certain toymaker in this animated holiday film.
By Glenn Kenny

‘Mickey and the Bear’ Review: Trapped in a Small Town, With Dad

Set in Anaconda, Montana, Annabelle Attanasio’s film follows a young woman burdened with caring for a parent with PTSD.
By Glenn Kenny

Redoubt
NYT Critic’s Pick Directed by Matthew Barney
Breathtakingly beautiful and with little spoken dialogue, Matthew Barney’s film is a western that reaches for the cosmic.
By GLENN KENNY

American Dharma
NYT Critic’s Pick R Documentary, Biography Directed by Errol Morris
Errol Morris fails to crack his subject in this documentary — but maybe that’s the point.
By BEN KENIGSBERG

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Terminator: Dark Fate
R Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Directed by Tim Miller
Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger return for another chapter in everyone’s favorite time-traveling killer-android franchise.
By A.O. SCOTT

Gay Chorus Deep South
Documentary, Music Directed by David Charles Rodrigues
On a tour of states that have enacted laws restricting the rights of LGBTQ people, music makes a difference on a personal level.
By GLENN KENNY

Motherless Brooklyn
R Crime, Drama Directed by Edward Norton
The actor directs and stars (along with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Alec Baldwin) in a big, ambitious adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s prizewinning novel.
By A.O. SCOTT

Chez jolie coiffure
NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
‘The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman’ and ‘Chez Jolie Coiffure’ offer Cameroonian women the chance to speak for themselves.
By TEO BUGBEE

The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman
NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
‘The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman’ and ‘Chez Jolie Coiffure’ offer Cameroonian women the chance to speak for themselves.
By TEO BUGBEE

The Elephant Queen
NYT Critic’s Pick PG Documentary, Family Directed by Mark Deeble, Victoria Stone
In footage shot over several years, this documentary follows a herd of elephants across the Kenyan savanna.
By KEN JAWOROWSKI

By the Grace of God
NYT Critic’s Pick Crime, Drama Directed by François Ozon
The often irreverent French director François Ozon gets serious with a fact-based story about a group of men who were childhood victims of a pedophile priest.
By GLENN KENNY

The Cave
NYT Critic’s Pick PG-13 Documentary Directed by Feras Fayyad
Feras Fayyad’s new documentary takes viewers into a subterranean Syrian hospital, as warplanes rumble overhead and bombings rattle the walls.
By BEN KENIGSBERG

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Zombieland: Double Tap
R Action, Comedy, Horror Directed by Ruben Fleischer
After 10 years, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin are still murdering the pop-culture clichés.
By A.O. SCOTT

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
PG Adventure, Family, Fantasy Directed by Joachim Rønning
Angelina Jolie returns as the powerful, dangerous fairy in this tame, disappointing follow-up to the 2014 revisionist hit.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Jojo Rabbit
PG-13 Comedy, Drama, War Directed by Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi’s new film mixes farce, fantasy and drama in a Nazi-era coming-of-age story.
By A.O. SCOTT

Parasite
NYT Critic’s Pick R Comedy, Drama, Thriller Directed by Joon-ho Bong
In Bong Joon Ho’s new film, a destitute family occupies a wealthy household in an elaborate scheme that goes comically — then horribly — wrong.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

In My Room
NYT Critic’s Pick Drama, Sci-Fi Directed by Ulrich Köhler
A mass extinction forces a miserable man to dramatically reshape his life in Ulrich Köhler’s uncommonly subtle character study.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Pain and Glory
NYT Critic’s Pick R Drama Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Antonio Banderas plays a filmmaker in crisis in Pedro Almodóvar’s movie about loss, love, imagination and memory.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Celebration
NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Olivier Meyrou
There’s little joy in this documentary, despite its title. But the movie is both revealing and beguiling.
By GLENN KENNY

The Irishman
NYT Critic’s Pick R Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller Directed by Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci star in Martin Scorsese’s monumental, elegiac tale of violence, betrayal, memory and loss. It’s the opening-night movie at the New York Film Festival.
By A.O. SCOTT

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Joker
R Crime, Drama, Thriller Directed by Todd Phillips
Todd Phillips’s supervillain origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix is stirring up a fierce debate, but it’s not interesting enough to argue about.
By A.O. SCOTT

Lucy in the Sky
R Drama, Sci-Fi Directed by Noah Hawley
A story that captured the public imagination (it’s the one with the diapers) makes for a messy movie.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

First Love
NYT Critic’s PickComedy, Crime, RomanceDirected by Takashi Miike
The prolific director Takashi Miike delivers an unusually satisfying Japanese genre romp.
By GLENN KENNY

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‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ Review: A Twisty Romp Through Time and Genre
Jim Mickle’s unconventional serial-killer movie for Netflix is clever, if bloody messy.
By Chris Vognar

‘Sink or Swim’ Review: Pool Boys
In over their heads, these unlikely underwater artistes find their happy place.
By Jeannette Catsoulis

‘The Death of Dick Long’ Review: About Last Night …
Three young Alabama men have a less-than-enchanted evening in this dark comedy.
By Glenn Kenny

Long Shot
NYT Critic’s Pick R Comedy, Romance Directed by Jonathan Levine
The improbably yet perfectly paired stars play old friends who unexpectedly find love in this charming (and a bit vulgar) romantic comedy.
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Meeting Gorbachev
NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Werner Herzog, Andre Singer
Werner Herzog’s latest documentary is centered on Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who helped bring the Cold War to an end.
By BEN KENIGSBERG

Hesburgh
NYT Critic’s Pick Documentary Directed by Patrick Creadon
A man of the cloth, a man against racism: “Hesburgh” tells the story of a tireless civil rights champion.
By GLENN KENNY

Shadow
NYT Critic’s Pick Action, Drama, War Directed by Yimou Zhang
Zhang Yimou’s film, set during the “Three Kingdoms” era in Chinese history, features head-spinning palace intrigue and spectacularly inventive violence.
By GLENN KENNY

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Ask Dr. Ruth
Documentary Directed by Ryan White
Ryan White’s rose-tinted portrait of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the irrepressible sex therapist and Holocaust survivor, leaves no room for naysayers.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

UglyDolls
PG Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical Directed by Kelly Asbury
Voiced by the likes of Kelly Clarkson and Janelle Monáe, singing plush toys populate this a neon-colored fable of self-love.
By GLENN KENNY

Peter Mayhew, the Actor Behind Chewbacca’s Mask in ‘Star Wars,’ Dies at 74
Mr. Mayhew, who played the Wookiee Chewbacca in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died at home in Texas after having a heart attack.

Fast Color
NYT Critic’s Pick PG-13 Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Directed by Julia Hart
Julia Hart’s wonderfully strange dystopian drama pits three gifted black women against a dried-up world and a hostile government.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Grass
NYT Critic’s Pick Drama Directed by Sang-soo Hong
A sense of dislocation hangs over the South Korean director’s latest feature as a young woman writer observes mostly melancholy people, old and young.
By GLENN KENNY

Hail Satan?
NYT Critic’s Pick R Documentary Directed by Penny Lane
Members of the Satanic Temple are not your average devil worshipers.
By BEN KENIGSBERG

Breakthrough
NYT Critic’s Pick PG Biography, Drama Directed by Roxann Dawson
After a 14-year-old boy falls into freezing water and his pulse stops, prayers and medical workers both seem to play a role in his recovery.
By BILGE EBIRI

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Penguins
G Documentary Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Jeff Wilson
Ed Helms provides the internal monologue for a 5-year-old Adélie penguin referred to as Steve, who is about to embark on his first mating season.
By TEO BUGBEE

Rafiki
Drama, Romance Directed by Wanuri Kahiu
The story of a romance between two Kenyan women was shown at Cannes after being banned in Kenya.
By BEN KENIGSBERG

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Not Rated Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy Directed by Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam’s long-deferred tribute to Cervantes’s knight errant finally arrives, starring Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver.
By A.O. SCOTT

Red Joan
R Biography, Drama, Romance Directed by Trevor Nunn
Trevor Nunn’s listless period drama about an English physicist who leaks atom-bomb secrets, drags when it should zing.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Guava Island
Comedy, Thriller Directed by Hiro Murai
The star, along with Rihanna and his “Atlanta” collaborators, crafts a freewheeling paean to the pleasures of taking it easy.
By JASON BAILEY