

Manohla Dargis
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‘Caught by the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke Sees Constant Flux
The Chinese director shot two decades of footage to for his new film, which captures his country in tumult and one woman living through it.

‘Rust’ Review: Alec Baldwin Western Hit by Tragedy Is a Hard Watch
During every scene of this western, I couldn’t stop thinking about the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, who was killed on set in an entirely preventable...

‘Thunderbolts*’ Review: Florence Pugh and Pals Kick Some Asterisk
The actress is the main attraction in Marvel’s latest, about a group of ragtag super-types who join forces to (spoiler alert!) save the world.

‘April’ Review: A Doctor’s Dilemma
In this, her second feature, the Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili takes on the risks faced by an obstetrician who performs kitchen-table abortions.

‘The Accountant 2’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Revenge of the Killer Nerd
Affleck returns as a brilliant C.P.A. who moonlights as a mysterious, gun-toting fixer and gets help from his little bro, played by Jon Bernthal.

‘Sinners’ Review: Ryan Coogler’s Southern Horror Fantasia
The director goes boldly out there in his fifth feature, a genre-defying, mind-bending shoot-em-up that stars Michael B. Jordan as twins.

‘Warfare’ Review: A Combat Movie That Refuses to Entertain
In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film about an American platoon in Iraq, there is no admirably staged bloodshed or witty repartee. That’s the point.

‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: A Year in the Life
Kevin Macdonald’s immersive documentary follows the couple from their heady first days in New York to their galvanizing concert at Madison Square Garden in 1972.

‘When Fall is Coming’ Review: Cooking Up a Mystery
With her kind eyes and guileless smile, Hélène Vincent plays a sweet old French lady. But looks can be deceiving in this François Ozon film.

‘Gazer’ Review: Peering Out From a Lonely Place
Ryan J. Sloan’s brooding thriller is a murky tale about an isolated woman, with many shades of Schrader, Nolan and Cronenberg.