In this Chinese police procedural, directed by Wei Shujun, solutions are murkier than they first appear.

In a frustrating documentary, the journalist Ibrahim Nash’at shows the Taliban after American troops left Afghanistan.

Guy Pearce plays a minister who arrives in New Zealand and finds his allegiances change in this antipodean western set in the 19th century.

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

The British filmmaking team were maestros of Technicolor and so much more. If you don’t know their work, your favorite directors do.

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.

Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry star in a Holocaust-memory drama that uneasily doubles as a father-daughter road movie.

Richard Gere plays it way too cool as a man learning about the son he didn’t know he had.

Mortensen gives his film a nested, at times unnecessarily complicated structure, but with performances this good, it’s hard to mind much.

A past look at tough times in New York, and current looks at struggles in North Korea and China.