In “Theater of Thought,” he talks to scientists and other experts about consciousness, quantum computing and whether parrots understand human speech.

Angelina Jolie plays the opera star Maria Callas in a movie that can’t figure her out.

The film argues that Loie Fuller was an inventive artist responsible for things we take for granted. If only the movie were as creative as...

Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader’s meditative drama about guilt and seeking forgiveness.

Joshua Oppenheimer’s postapocalyptic musical about a wealthy family in an underground bunker is placidly disturbing.

Ben Stiller stars in a tonally bumpy comedy with genre roots in Hallmark territory.

Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful drama about the authoritarian Iranian government breaks a fourth wall, with consequences.

The film has ended, but the names of the many people who worked on it are rolling across the screen. Do you stick around?

“Night Is Not Eternal,” which follows the Cuban activist Rosa María Payá, is the rare nuanced political documentary that is likely to challenge every viewer’s...

A daughter hunts for the mother she never knew in an extraordinary, elegiac documentary.