Jillian Bell’s feature directorial debut centers on a nerdy teenager who hires a stripper for a sexual education, but the movie favors modesty over vulgarity.

Durga Chew-Bose boldly reimagines a work once adapted by Otto Preminger in her beguiling first film set on the French Riviera.

Amalia Ulman’s playful second feature follows an American television crew that lands in rural Argentina.

The Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’s black-and-white film follows a colonial official on a 20th-century odyssey across Asia, with his fiancée in pursuit.

Barbie Ferreira shines as a young woman who befriends a stranger with her father’s name in this indie tear-jerker.

The Hulu documentary challenges ideas around who is responsible for the death of the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust.”

A waitress becomes a wrestler in this sports drama, based on the true story of the champion Mildred Burke.

A family of sloths take their food truck to the big city in this animated movie directed by Ricard Cussó and Tania Vincent.

Christoph Waltz plays an aging hit man begrudgingly training his replacement in Simon West’s stale action movie.

The genial bear embarks on an Amazonian journey of self discovery in this movie, which cannot measure up to “Paddington 2” despite its charms.