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‘Hilma’ Review: An Artist With Spirit

The film gets off to a rough start, but the director wins the audience back with his sincere connection to the artist Hilma af Klint.

‘Wild Life’ Review: Their Land Is Our Land

This documentary looks at the efforts of Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and Douglas Tompkins to preserve stretches of land in Argentina and Chile.

‘Joyland’ Review: A Target of Gossip

Saim Sadiq’s melodrama, about a husband’s affair with a transgender dancer, was briefly banned in Pakistan.

‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Review: They’re on a Roll

An ensemble cast aims to bring comedy and adventure to this film made in the image of the popular role-playing game.

‘Ithaka’ Review: In Julian Assange They Trust

A frustrating new advocacy documentary about the WikiLeaks founder, with appearances by his father and wife, loses its footing on weak assertions and reporting.

‘Inside’ Review: Tortured Artist, Meet Tortured Man

Willem Dafoe stars as an art thief who gets trapped in a penthouse in this drama.

‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Review: Yells Like Teen Spirit

The problem with this sequel is that the character used up his best ideas in the first movie.

‘Blueback’ Review: A Heart for the Ocean

Mia Wasikowska stars in this mournful, stodgy drama about the emotional cost of protecting the planet from its most rapacious predator: the land developer.

‘We Have a Ghost’ Review: Me and My Boo

David Harbour stars as an apparition haunting a family’s home in this supernatural Netflix comedy.

‘Your Place or Mine’ Review: Try Neither

This humdrum Netflix romantic comedy features Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher as longtime friends with possibly hidden feelings for each other.