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‘Mother of the Bride’ Review: An Old Flame in a Tropical Locale
Brooke Shields plays a single mother who comes face to face with her college ex-boyfriend at her daughter’s destination wedding in this tired romantic comedy.

‘Turtles All the Way Down’ Review: 10 Things I Hate About Germs
Hannah Marks’s adaptation of John Green’s blockbuster young-adult novel builds a dynamic depiction of a teenager with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

‘The Stranger’ Review: Somewhere Over the Freeway
In this tense thriller on Hulu, Maika Monroe plays Clare, a Kansas transplant in Los Angeles who parallels Dorothy in Oz.

‘Girls State’ Review: One Nation, Under Girls
Balancing confidence with broad smiles, the high school students in this documentary understand that camaraderie goes hand in hand with political ambition.

‘Asphalt City’ Review: Arbiters of Life and Death
Sean Penn plays a flinty paramedic showing a rookie the ropes in this maddening drama about emergency medical workers in New York.

‘Stormy’ Review: Trials and Travails
A new documentary on Stormy Daniels traces how fame, frenzy and legal battles involving a former president upended her life.

‘Cabrini’ Review: Embarking on a Pious Mission
From the team behind “Sound of Freedom,” this biopic of an Italian nun in 19th-century New York City is stuffed with sanctimonious speeches.

‘Shayda’ Review: Finding Refuge in Community
This stirring film from Noora Niasari follows an Iranian woman and her daughter living in a women’s shelter in Australia.

‘Veselka’ Review: Serving Up Support for Ukraine
Subtitled “The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World,” this documentary offers a warm tribute to an East Village landmark.

‘Upgraded’ Review: Faking It That She’s Made It
Camila Mendes plays a broke assistant posing as an art world bigwig in this slyly charming romantic comedy.