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‘Chicken for Linda!’ Review: A Comedy That Cooks

In this madcap film, a mother’s apology leads to a delightful misadventure that begins with mourning and ends with a father’s favorite recipe.

Steve Buscemi’s ‘The Listener’ Looks at Post-Covid Loneliness

Tessa Thompson’s still and luminous performance makes this post-Covid drama about loneliness, directed by Steve Buscemi, worth watching.

‘Mea Culpa’ Review: Who’s Really to Blame, and for What?

The tagline of Tyler Perry’s new movie is “everyone’s guilty of something,” but the responsibility for this willfully steamy, decidedly silly thriller is all his.

‘Here’ Review: A Celebration of Connection

In Bas Devos’s muted and luminous Belgian drama, two lonely souls repeatedly encounter each other.

‘Which Brings Me to You’ Review: Out With the Old?

This rom-com boasts a clever conceit that at times feels a little cluttered.

‘Inshallah a Boy’ Review: Where the Male Line Is the Only Line

In this film by Amjad Al Rasheed, a young widow in Jordan strains against the tradition, underpinned by law, that without a man she is...

‘South to Black Power’ Review: A Great Migration in Reverse

In a new documentary, the opinion columnist Charles M. Blow calls for Black Americans to move to the South to gain political footholds.

‘Stamped From the Beginning’ Review: Examining Racist Thought

The documentary, based on Ibram X. Kendi’s 2016 book, looks at the ugly history of anti-Black ideology.

‘The Lady Bird Diaries’ Review: A 1960s First Lady Speaks

Lady Bird Johnson proves an engrossing narrator to her own story and that of a roiling nation.

‘This Much We Know’ Review: Asking Why After a Friend’s Death

L. Frances Henderson’s intricate debut documentary investigates a suicide, raising plenty of questions, including one about its own ethics.