

Jeannette Catsoulis
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‘When You Finish Saving the World’ Review: Mother and Son Disunion
Julianne Moore plays a parent to a son (Finn Wolfhard) with whom she fails to see eye-to-eye in this comedy directed by Jesse Eisenberg.

‘Skinamarink’ Review: Night Terrors
Two children are trapped in a shape-shifting home in this spookily impenetrable horror experiment.

‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread
This festival’s 22nd edition covers themes of crisis, both personal and planetary, with short works from the likes of Gil Alkabetz and Frédéric Back.

‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Review: Stolen Hearts and Tortured Minds
A tormented detective and a fictional Edgar Allan Poe team up to solve grisly killings in this stuffy period melodrama.

‘Joyride’ Review: Irresponsible Adult
Olivia Colman and a precocious preteen embark on a fraught road trip in this affable dramedy.

‘The Apology’ Review: Regrets, He’s Had a Few
A surprise visitor derails a grieving mother’s holiday plans in this gloomy, overwrought family drama.

‘Leonor Will Never Die’ Review: Rewriting Life, One Scene at a Time
A comatose genre director in the Philippines becomes trapped in one of her own screenplays in this messily inventive debut feature.

‘The Menu’ Review: Eat, Pray, Run!
Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy face off in this pitch-black satire of class and high-end dining.

‘Incredible but True’ Review: Track to the Future
A suburban couple makes a life-altering discovery in the basement of their new home in this delightfully odd comedy.

‘Something in the Dirt’ Review: The Truth Is Over There, by the Sofa
Two likable losers fall into conspiratorial rabbit holes while filming the strange goings-on in their apartment building.