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‘Cover-Up’ Review: Seymour Hersh, Scoops and Power

In their documentary, Laura Poitras (“Citzenfour”) and Mark Obenhaus trace the career highs and lows of the famed investigative journalist.

Rob Reiner Gave Us Great Reasons to Go to the Movies

“This Is Spinal Tap,” “When Harry Met Sally …,” “Misery”: Reiner delivered an incredible number of accessible, original and adult movies that we still cherish.

‘Dust Bunny’ Review: A World of Wonders, Familiar and Foreign

The movie, starring Sophie Sloan and Mads Mikkelsen, is a blast of visual delights.

‘Resurrection’ Review: Bi Gan’s Voyage Into Cinema

The Chinese director Bi Gan, who has become a lauded fixture on the festival circuit, conjures a boundary-pushing tale that evokes moviemaking itself.

‘La Grazia’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Portrait of Waning Power

The director reunites with Toni Servillo, casting the astonishingly expressive actor as a fictional Italian president facing the end of his term.

‘Little Trouble Girls’ Review: Teenage Infatuation

Despite awareness of taboos, two girls in a Catholic school choir are drawn to each other in this feature debut by the Slovenian director Urska…

‘BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions’ Review: An Artist’s Mind-Expanding Collage

In this dazzling essay movie, the director Kahlil Joseph draws on an array of sources — news clips, old movies, family albums, an encyclopedia of…

‘The Secret Agent’ Review: Wagner Moura Is on the Run

Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s miliary dictatorship.

‘Wicked: For Good’ Review: Two Besties Till the End

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return to Oz for the second part of Jon M. Chu’s maximalist adaptation of the Broadway musical.

‘The Running Man’ Review: Glen Powell Plays for His Life

The actor stars as an Everyman battling it out in a near-future but familiarly dystopian America in the director Edgar Wright’s new version of the…