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‘Lee’ Review: A Remarkable Life at War

Kate Winslet embodies the tenacity of the photographer Lee Miller, who documented World War II for British Vogue.

‘The Featherweight’ Review: Boxing Is Easy. Retirement Is Hard.

In this biopic, a documentary crew follows the boxer Willie Pep during his 1960s comeback.

At Sundance Lab, Movie Economics Can’t Be Ignored This Year

Funding is a perennial problem for the indie filmmakers who workshop their latest works here. But now Sundance itself is feeling the financial pressure.

‘Find Me Falling’ Review: A Romance With an Edge

Harry Connick Jr. stars as a cranky rocker who returns to Cyprus, the home of the love who inspired a signature hit.

‘Sing Sing’ Review: Divine Interventions

A deep-tissue turn by Colman Domingo and a breakout performance by Clarence Maclin lift this moving drama about a prison theater program.

‘Brats’ Review: Feeding St. Elmo’s Ire

In this documentary, Andrew McCarthy examines fame and disappointment as a member of the so-called Brat Pack of the 1980s.

‘Backspot’ Review: Queer Cheer-Squad Drama

This queer high school movie, starring Devery Jacobs and Evan Rachel Wood, channels an after-school special without the coming-out trauma.

‘Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara’ Review: Church vs. State

This film, based on a true story about the kidnapping of a Jewish child in 19th-century Italy, underscores the devastating consequences of family separation.

‘Aisha’ Review: Seeking Asylum in Ireland

The “Black Panther” star Letitia Wright shows understated vulnerability in this immigrant drama by Frank Berry. Josh O’Connor (“Challengers”) also stars.

‘Stress Positions’ Review: It’s Giving Pandemonium

The writer-director Theda Hammel’s biting, delirious quarantine comedy skewers white gay men in a world where fact, fiction and authentic experiences collide.