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‘Immediate Family’ Review: Unpacking a Musical Kinship

The session musicians who helped create the soundtrack of 1970s pop step into the spotlight in the director Denny Tedesco’s documentary.

‘Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer’ Review: A Guide to the Filmmaker’s Work

This documentary examines Herzog’s oeuvre and celebrity influence.

‘Silent Night’ Review: On the First Day of Christmas, Kill.

John Woo’s latest is as violent and merciless a revenge thriller as you can imagine.

‘Genie’ Review: Melissa McCarthy, Granting Unlimited Wishes

Melissa McCarthy grants unlimited magical requests in this holiday fantasy film.

‘Thanksgiving’ Review: Gobble, Gobble, Gasp

From a fake genre trailer comes a full horror meal, courtesy of Eli Roth.

‘Journey to Bethlehem’ Review: No Room at the Inn? Try the Multiplex

It’s no “Home Alone” or “Jesus Christ Superstar,” but it does have Antonio Banderas as a song-slinging Herod and Lecrae as a quavering Angel Gabriel.

‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ Review: 50 Years of Off-Kilter Rock

Toby Amies’s documentary dives into the history of the British progressive rock band King Crimson and its chief disciplinarian, Robert Fripp.

‘Old Dads’ Review: Bill Burr Rails Against Modern Life as a Dad

A curmudgeon, starting fatherhood late, has lots to say about the world.

Jamie Foxx in a Lively Courtroom Drama

Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones deliver bravura performances in this Maggie Betts film about a funeral-home proprietor in financial trouble.

‘Shadows in the City’ Review: A Sleazy Slice of 1980s No Wave

The director Ari M. Roussimoff’s black-and-white homage to the downtown crowd gets a raw screening at the Museum of Modern Art before its restoration.