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‘The Last Showgirl’ Review: Pamela Anderson Is Dazzling

The actress stars as a dancer at a Las Vegas revue on its last fishnet leg in Gia Coppola’s sensitive and beguiling film.

‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Review: It’s Alive!

In Nick Park’s latest charming stop-motion animated film, the inventor-beagle team discovers the joys and dangers of technology.

One Indelible Scene: Yearning and Loss in ‘All We Imagine as Light’

A mysterious rice cooker and a rainstorm combine to convey what a woman doesn’t speak of.

‘Babygirl’ Review: Nicole Kidman Takes Control

Nicole Kidman bares body and some soul in a story about a married woman who enters a dominant-submissive affair with a younger man.

‘The Brutalist’ Review: Adrien Brody Leads a Bold Architectural Saga

Adrien Brody stars as a talented architect who flees postwar Europe to meet his match in America, a power-hungry industrialist played by Guy Pearce.

‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Review: Squeaking, Not Roaring

This wan photorealistic prequel to a remake, the latest addition to the Disney juggernaut, was directed by Barry Jenkins of “Moonlight” fame.

‘September 5’ Review: When the Munich Games Changed Our News

Tim Fehlbaum’s journalism procedural, starring Peter Sarsgaard, tracks the broadcast coverage of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics.

‘Nickel Boys’ Review: Childhood’s Brutal End

This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

‘Hard Truths’ Review: Mike Leigh’s Brutal Comedy

The British director casts the superb Marianne Jean-Baptiste in the role of an excruciatingly lonely character whose pain reveals hidden depths.

‘Nightbitch’ Review: Motherhood? Woof! Grr!

Amy Adams plays a stay-at-home mom who comes to believe that she’s a dog in Marielle Heller’s adaptation of the Rachel Yoder novel.