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‘Arthur the King’ Review: Dog Days With Mark Wahlberg

Wahlberg stars in this drama directed by Simon Cellan Jones, based on the true story of a Swedish adventure racer and his beloved adopted dog.

When a Job Becomes a Literal Hell

In an era of continual burnout, artists and filmmakers are now imagining what it looks like when workers finally explode.

‘Becoming King’ Review: An Actor Marches On

This documentary about Ava DuVernay’s 2014 Martin Luther King drama “Selma” plays more like a David Oyelowo tribute than a proper look at the difficulties...

If You Liked ‘Saltburn,’ Consider This Much Better Movie

“The Dreamers,” Bernardo Bertolucci’s notorious 2004 coming-of-age drama, pushes the same buttons, but it makes serious points along the way.

‘They Called Him Mostly Harmless’ Review: Digital Sleuthing

In this schematic HBO true-crime documentary, amateur detectives take the lead in the quest to identify the body of a male hiker.

‘She Is Conann’ Review: Queen of the Barbarians

This feminist riff on “Conan the Barbarian” is a sci-fi horror movie sprinkled with a bit of glam-rock fairy dust.

A Mind-Bending 7-Hour Epic About Hitler Gets a Rare Screening

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s surreal film collage was a cause celebre when it reached the United States in 1980. It’s a fascinating contrast with current Holocaust dramas.

‘Mambar Pierrette’ Review: Cosmic Misfortunes

A gifted seamstress, played by the filmmaker Rosine Mbakam’s cousin, has to put out a string of fires in this rich portrait of Cameroonian womanhood.

‘Driving Madeleine’ Review: A Nonagenarian in Paris

The beloved French singer Line Renaud plays a woman who forms an unlikely bond with a surly cabdriver in this heart-warmer.

‘The Three Musketeers’ and the Joy of Old-School Blockbusters

With its practical effects and broad-minded approach to story, the French franchise revives the pleasures of earlier movie spectacles, but with a Gallic twist.