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‘Drift’ Review: Cynthia Erivo Keeps a Breakdown at Bay

Anthony Chen’s quiet character study follows a traumatized Liberian woman (Cynthia Erivo) on a Greek island who befriends an American tour guide (Alia Shawkat).

‘Fitting In’ Review: Her Body, Herself

Maddie Ziegler plays a teen who is diagnosed with a rare reproductive condition in this movie that tends toward the obvious.

‘The Peasants’ Review: A Village Rendered in Oils

The filmmakers DK and Hugh Welchman apply a painstaking oil painting technique to render this sweeping drama set in a 19th century Polish village.

‘Role Play’ Review: Mommy by Day, Killer by Night

Kaley Cuoco plays a woman balancing a life of domesticity with her career as an assassin in this spineless comedy thriller.

From ‘Poor Things’ to ‘Barbie,’ a Crybaby Year for Men in the Movies

In 2023, male characters pouted elaborately after something they saw as their birthright was put in check.

‘Rose’ Review: My Sister’s Keeper

Niels Arden Oplev’s drama about two sisters, one of whom is a woman with schizophrenia, on a bus tour of France brims with genuine feeling.

‘Total Trust’ Review: Under Surveillance

Jialing Zhang’s documentary follows a journalist and two families fighting for rights while dealing with invasive surveillance tactics from Chinese authorities.

‘Who We Become’ Review: Interrogating Identity and Injustice

Three young Filipino women self-document difficult conversations with their families and friends during the first year of the pandemic.

‘Monster’ Review: Uncovering a Mother-Son Japanese Mystery

This drama from Hirokazu Kore-eda traces a series of events from the perspectives of a single mother, her preteen son and his fifth-grade teacher.

‘JFK: What the Doctors Saw’ Review: A Clinical Take

Barbara Shearer’s documentary unpacks the medical opinions of physicians who treated John F. Kennedy in Dallas.