

Manohla Dargis
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One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’
The animal, reared in a circus, enters into a forest and a world of wild animals. For the first and only time in the movie,...

‘Wildcat’ Review: Rescue and Rewild
This documentary follows a couple’s efforts to reintroduce an ocelot, headed to a zoo or worse, into its home in the Peruvian Amazon.

‘Corsage’ Review: A Queen in Quiet Rebellion
A transfixing Vicky Krieps plays the Empress of Austria who, at 40, begins to chafe against her predictably cosseted life.

‘Babylon’ Review: Boozing. Snorting. Grinding. That’s Entertainment!?
Damien Chazelle directs Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva in a 1920s story about Hollywood’s good and sometimes very bad old days.

‘The Super 8 Years’ Review: Annie Ernaux’s Celluloid Souvenirs
In this wistful movie, the French writer and Nobel laureate revisits her life with help from her son, who’s also the director.

‘One Fine Morning’ Review: The Moments That Make Up a Rich Life
Mia Hansen-Love directs Léa Seydoux in a delicate look at a mother, daughter and lover whose quotidian existence is instantly recognizable yet sublime.

‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Puppets and Power
This quirky classic has been made all the stranger by the decision to turn it into an ill-conceived metaphor about fascism.

‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith in a Brutal Journey
The actor stars in this Civil War-era drama directed by Antoine Fuqua and inspired by a shocking photograph of an enslaved man.

‘The Eternal Daughter’ Review: Two Glorious Sides of Tilda Swinton
The actress astonishes in two roles in Joanna Hogg’s haunting film set in a creaky castle in Wales.

‘Nanny’ Review: A New Job That Swallows Her Life
Nikyatu Jusu’s new film, about a Senegalese woman who works as a babysitter in New York, plays like an immigration drama and a cruel labor...