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‘Reality Winner’ Review: Caught in the Cross Hairs

Sonia Kennebeck’s documentary unpacks the circumstances surrounding its subject, but fails to crack her complexity.

‘My Love Affair With Marriage’ Review: A Tale of Love and Loss

This animated musical about a young woman’s sexual and romantic awakening uses a gloriously tactile aesthetic.

‘Reptile’ Review: Unusual Suspects

Benicio Del Toro plays a detective investigating a suburban homicide in this overstuffed thriller.

‘Cassandro’ Review: Gael García Bernal as the Luchador Saúl Armendáriz

Gael García Bernal plays a flamboyant figure taking the world of Mexican professional wrestling by storm in this underdog drama directed by Roger Ross Williams.

‘Love at First Sight’ Review: Sense, Sensibility and Statistics

Two lovebirds-to-be meet at an airport in this unoriginal but sturdy Y.A. romance, which pivots on the probability of falling in love.

‘Scout’s Honor’ Review: Uncovering a History of Abuse

This documentary, subtitled “The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America,” unveils the legacy organization’s habit of covering up cases of sexual abuse.

Review: In the ‘Ernest & Celestine’ Sequel, a Prodigal Cub Returns

The delightful odd couple of the Oscar-nominated French film head to the mountains in ‘A Trip to Gibberitia.’ Every frame brims with painterly detail.

‘Brief Encounters’ and ‘The Long Farewell’ Review: Kira Muratova’s Soulful Soviet Dramas

A pair of newly restored films from Kira Muratova about restless, disaffected women hold a special, subversive power.

‘Billion Dollar Heist’ Review: How to Rob a Bank, Digitally

This documentary chronicles a 2016 digital bank heist by pairing commentary from cybersecurity experts with a toolbox of visualization techniques.

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Review: Blood on the Water

This horror movie, based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” is set on a cargo ship unwittingly transporting an evil demon.