

Jeannette Catsoulis
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‘Eat the Night’ Review: Connection Impossible
The lives of two siblings are upended by gang violence and the loss of a beloved video game in this haunting yet shaky French drama.

‘Better Man’ Review: The Boy in the Band
The singer Robbie Williams’s caustic, often vulnerable narration is the melody that enriches this musical biopic’s otherwise familiar beats of pop stardom.

‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ Review: Mission Impeccable
Stirringly acted and gorgeously filmed, this swashbuckler leaves previous versions of Dumas’s famous revenge saga in the dust.

‘The Man in the White Van’ Review: Sleazy Rider
In this derivative thriller, set in the early 1970s, young women are stalked by an anonymous killer.

Review: ‘The Return,’ Starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche burn through the screen in this grim take on the homecoming of Odysseus.

‘Sweethearts’ Review: Friends Without Benefits
Two college freshmen conspire to simultaneously dump their exes in Jordan Weiss’s unremarkable debut feature.

‘Meanwhile on Earth’ Review: Outer Space and Inner Turmoil
A bereaved young woman faces terrible choices in this dreamily uncertain blend of science fiction and moral philosophy.

‘Absolution’ Review: Brain Drain
Liam Neeson plays a regretful gangster with a serious medical condition in this drab, downbeat action movie.

‘Magpie’ Review: An Unhappily Married Woman
Daisy Ridley plays a time bomb with a simmering fuse in this slow yet gripping adultery thriller.

‘Rumours’ Review: No One Will Save Us
Cate Blanchette stars as a lusty, preening stateswomen in a geopolitical satire from the experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin.