

Jeannette Catsoulis
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‘MaXXXine’ Review: Fame Monster
Mia Goth returns to Ti West’s horrorverse as an actress fleeing a mysterious stalker and a traumatic past.

‘The Vourdalak’ Review: Blood Relations
An endangered French aristocrat is stranded with a benighted rural family in this tragicomic fairy tale.

‘Daddio’ Review: Two for the Road
Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson outclass a humdrum script as two people who talk — and talk — in a New York City taxicab.

‘Thelma’ Review: Granny Get Your Gun
The remarkable June Squibb plays a vengeful scam victim in this ludicrous action-movie spoof.

‘Firebrand’ Review: Placid Queen
Top-shelf actors and authentic Tudor table-setting fail to quicken this glumly unfocused take on the exploits of Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr.

‘Tuesday’ Review: Expiration Point
Julia Louis-Dreyfus journeys from denial to acceptance in this imaginative fantasy-drama about grief and motherhood.

‘In a Violent Nature’ Review: Killing Them Softly
Chris Nash’s ultraviolent horror movie is an unexpectedly serene, almost dreamlike meditation on a murderous psyche.

‘Queen of the Deuce’ Review: A Mother of Invention
This warm remembrance of a Times Square legend is too careful with its iconoclastic heroine.

‘Infested’ Review: Bugging Out
An apartment building in Paris is overrun by murderous arachnids and unsubtle allegory in this fleet and efficient debut feature.

Ken Loach: Championing the Strugglers and Stragglers
A retrospective of the director’s work at Film Forum shows how his movies have kept a focus on working-class solidarity.