

Ben Kenigsberg
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‘The Convert’ Review: The British Are Coming
Guy Pearce plays a minister who arrives in New Zealand and finds his allegiances change in this antipodean western set in the 19th century.

Three Great Documentaries to Stream
This month’s picks look at a summer in Paris, a summer at the Olympics and the heat of the erotic thriller.

It’s the Summer of Powell and Pressburger in New York
The British filmmaking team were maestros of Technicolor and so much more. If you don’t know their work, your favorite directors do.

‘Hummingbirds’ Review: Two Friends’ Summer Along the Border
The young directors Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía (Beba) Contreras stargaze, watch fireworks and discuss their lives in this documentary filmed in Laredo, Texas.

‘Treasure’ Review: Unearthing the Past
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry star in a Holocaust-memory drama that uneasily doubles as a father-daughter road movie.

‘Longing’ Review: A Test of Paternity
Richard Gere plays it way too cool as a man learning about the son he didn’t know he had.

‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ Review: A Foursquare Western From Viggo Mortensen
Mortensen gives his film a nested, at times unnecessarily complicated structure, but with performances this good, it’s hard to mind much.

Three Great Documentaries to Stream
A past look at tough times in New York, and current looks at struggles in North Korea and China.

‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Review: Glow-Stick Dreams and Thermal Nightmares
Harmony Korine (“Spring Breakers”) parties too hard in this fusion of feature filmmaking and video game.

‘Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg’ Review
Subtitled “The Story of Anita Pallenberg,” this documentary gives the life of the actress and model a thorough downer of a treatment.