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‘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.

At New Directors/New Films, the Faces Tell the Story

They’re the great cinematic landscape in stories as diverse as “Familiar Touch,” about dementia, and “Timestamp,” about Ukrainian schoolchildren.

‘Holy Cow’ Review: How to Become a Big Cheese

Louise Courvoisier’s debut feature follows a teenager in the French Alps who, when thrust into caring for his sister, forges a path in cheese making.

‘Death of a Unicorn’ Review: Into the Woods (Chomp, Chomp)

Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega play a father and daughter who run down a mystical beast and end up running amok with a monstrous brood.

‘Snow White’ Review: A Princess’s Progress

The new live-action version of Disney’s 1937 animated fairy tale has drawn (maddening) criticism for its casting and an updated story. But liberation only goes...

‘Who by Fire’ Review: Masculinity and Its Discontents

Men posture and peacock in the Québecois director Philippe Lesage’s ensemble drama set at an isolated house in a remote forest.