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‘We Beat the Dream Team’ Puts a Twist on the Sports Movie Formula

This film tells the story of the college players who defeated the 1992 U.S. men’s basketball team, filled with N.B.A. All-Stars, during a scrimmage before...

‘The Monkey’ Review: A Stephen King Story Adapted Into a Gory Farce

A gruesome horror comedy adapted from a Stephen King story mixes nihilism, fatherhood and carnage.

‘The Strike’: When Collective Action Leads to Prison Reform

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security...

‘Universal Language’ Review: If Tehran Were Winnipeg

A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.

‘La Dolce Villa’ Review: Sweet Italian Nonsense

A light as air romantic comedy about a cheap villa in a fictional town capitalizes on the “Emily in Paris” model, with pasta.

What an Instagram Reel Has in Common With a 4-Hour Documentary

Humans love to watch other humans, whether it’s movies by Frederick Wiseman or vertical videos on your phone. In a way, we’re all documentarians.

‘Paint Me a Road Out of Here’: Faith Ringgold’s Gift to Prisoners

In this documentary, the artist depicts what a more just and beautiful world might look like.

‘Armand’ Review: When a School Is a Trap

Renate Reinsve stars in a drama about an insular community that is intermittently interesting.

‘No Other Land’ Documentary Is an Eye-Opener on West Bank

A team of Palestinian and Israeli directors take a daring approach to the subject. But the Oscar-nominated film could not find a U.S. distributor.

‘Love Me’ Review: A Romance Six Billion Years in the Making

Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star in a marvelously inventive sci-fi romance that spans eons yet pokes at a simple question.