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‘The 2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Bite-Size Stories, Big Ideas

The themes run from sweet to harrowing in this year’s selections.

‘Companion’ Review: Girl, Corrupted

A lakeside getaway becomes a battleground for couples in this fast, furious and exceptionally fun horror-comedy.

‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Review: Set the Phasers to Shun

This made-for-streaming Star Trek adventure starring Michelle Yeoh is an exhausting gallop of nonstop chatter and nonhuman abilities.

‘Alarum’ Review: Mission Forgettable

Sylvester Stallone briefly stabilizes this artless action movie about a rogue agent and his wife on the run.

‘Wolf Man’ Review: Howling on the Inside

Julia Garner stars as a weary wife to Christopher Abbott, who might be transforming into a savage animal, in this cabin-in-the-woods thriller.

‘Eat the Night’ Review: Connection Impossible

The lives of two siblings are upended by gang violence and the loss of a beloved video game in this haunting yet shaky French drama.

‘Better Man’ Review: The Boy in the Band

The singer Robbie Williams’s caustic, often vulnerable narration is the melody that enriches this musical biopic’s otherwise familiar beats of pop stardom.

‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ Review: Mission Impeccable

Stirringly acted and gorgeously filmed, this swashbuckler leaves previous versions of Dumas’s famous revenge saga in the dust.

‘The Man in the White Van’ Review: Sleazy Rider

In this derivative thriller, set in the early 1970s, young women are stalked by an anonymous killer.

Review: ‘The Return,’ Starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche burn through the screen in this grim take on the homecoming of Odysseus.