This month’s picks spend time on farms, in a courtroom and with an artist-activist.
Category: Movies
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‘Those Who Remained’ Review: Managing Unimaginable Grief
Set in Hungary after World War II, this film concerns a doctor and a teenager seeking to fill the void left by the relatives they lost.
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‘Winter Boy’ Review: Lost and Found
In this French drama about a teenager grappling with grief, a winning cast rises above a heavy-handed script.
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‘Sisu’ Review: Sweat Wicking
A seemingly invincible former commando goes on a rampage in this blandly gratuitous World War II action movie.
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‘Clock’ Review: That Biological Ticking Is Now a Time Bomb
A woman who does not want children is pressured into changing her mind, with horrific results, in Alexis Jacknow’s fitfully scary horror movie.
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‘Broadway’ Review: Life on the Margins
Christos Massalas’s compelling debut feature follows a winsome troupe of castaways in modern Greece.
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Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild
With the release of “Renfield,” we look at 10 of the actor’s performances from the last decade that range from subdued to off the deep end.
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‘The Oak’: A Post-Communist Pinwheel
Lucian Pintilie’s newly restored mad farce, now at Film Forum, paved the way for the Romanian new wave.
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Watch These Great Harry Belafonte Screen Performances
While Belafonte’s cinematic output was minimal, he made an impact with each role.
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‘Centurion: The Dancing Stallion’ Review: Romance on the Ranch
A young woman training for a horse dancing competition confronts a medical crisis in this conventional family melodrama.
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Harry Belafonte on His Artistic Values and His Activism
In interviews and articles in The New York Times, Mr. Belafonte, who died on Tuesday, spoke about the civil rights movement and his frustration with how Black life was depicted onscreen.
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Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist
In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. But his primary focus was civil rights.