This month’s picks include a Vietnam War portrait, an analysis of Los Angeles as a film subject and a look into the admissions process for...

In this black-and-white documentary by Luke McManus, the camera finds stories and songs near a road north of the city’s center.

Initially considered too short and too scrawny, Curry went on to be an N.B.A. superstar. But there’s little that feels fresh or spontaneous in this...

Former middle-school friends with clashing temperaments take an Aegean excursion in this contrived French fluff.

Sam Pollard’s new documentary traces the history of the Negro leagues.

After botching a trip to New York, an aspiring architect in New Zealand pretends to be there anyway.

This month’s picks obsess over the methods of Pablo Picasso and Stanley Kubrick; and dissect three minutes of film footage taken in Poland in 1938.

A documentary examines how the winner for best picture of 1969 captured shifts in American life.

The writer-director Tyler Taormina shot this highly experimental feature, which mostly takes place after dark, during the most restrictive phase of the pandemic.

Anton Corbijn’s documentary shares anecdotes from the British design studio that devised some of the most famous album covers of the 1970s.