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‘The Archies’ Review: A Masala Milkshake at Pop’s, Anyone?

Archie and pals get radicalized when their hometown, now conveniently relocated in India, is threatened by corporate overlords.

‘The Archies’ Review: A Masala Milkshake at Pop’s, Anyone?

Archie and pals get radicalized when their hometown, now conveniently relocated in India, is threatened by corporate overlords.

‘Wish,’ With Ariana DeBose and Chris Pine: Disney on Ice

Celebrating Disney’s 100th anniversary, the animated musical starring Ariana DeBose and Chris Pine, is a reminder of the studio’s vaunted past.

‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Review: Fallen Snow

This slow-burning prequel tells the origin story of Coriolanus Snow, the future president of Panem.

‘A Still Small Voice’ Review: Grant Them the Serenity

This absorbing documentary follows a chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

‘Nyad’ Review: Neptune’s (Estranged) Daughter

Annette Bening plays the long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad as a woman who doesn’t pity herself. Neither does the film.

‘Pain Hustlers’ Review: Seeking Dr. Feelgood

In David Yates’s film, Emily Blunt plays a single mother who takes a job at a pharmaceutical start-up with questionable sales methods.

‘The Persian Version’ Review: A Bumpy Road Out of Iran

An Iranian American woman navigates her family life and her personal life in this semi-autobiographical feature from Maryam Keshavarz.

‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Review: Tumbling From the Alps to the Courtroom

Did a writer kill her husband? In this cerebral murder trial drama by the director Justine Triet, the audience never has its footing and questions...

Book Review: ‘MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios,’ by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzalez and Gavin Edwards

“The Reign of Marvel Studios” captures how movies based on comic-book properties came to dominate pop culture. At least until now.