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‘The Woman in Cabin 10’ Review: When Things Go Splash in the Night

Keira Knightley and Guy Pearce encounter bumpy waters on a yacht in this adaptation of a Ruth Ware thriller.

‘Ruth & Boaz’ Review: A Modern Twist on a Biblical Romance

The latest drama from Tyler Perry Studios sets the Book of Ruth at a vineyard in Tennessee.

‘The Summer Book’ Review: Glenn Close’s Autumnal Notes

Set in Finland, this film explores a season of grief and growth for a girl, her father and her grandmother.

‘Happyend’ Review: Adolescent Tremors

Friends in high school navigate senior year in a futuristic Japan where a cataclysmic earthquake looms.

‘Love, Brooklyn’ Review: Boroughs and Relationships in Transition

Smart and lovely to look at, this drama starring André Holland, and set in a changing Brooklyn, hints at a wisdom it doesn’t quite deliver.

‘Songs From the Hole’ Review: From Murder to Anguished Reckoning

This documentary-musical looks at a young man in prison, asking bedeviling questions about crime, punishment and forgiveness.

‘Architecton’ Review: A Lesson Among Ruins

A documentary about concrete is as gorgeous as it is grave.

‘Sunday Best’ Review: Ed Sullivan’s Really Big Impact

Sacha Jenkins’s documentary, about the variety show trailblazer and his commitment to Black performers in the Civil Rights era, will keep you hooked.

‘Finally Dawn’ Review: A Night to Remember in Rome

This Italian drama, set in the 1950s and starring Lily James, Willem Dafoe and Joe Keery, sends a star-struck naïf through the looking glass darkly.

‘Brick’ Review: No Way Out?

In the overly constructed thriller from Germany, tenants are trapped in apartment building by a mysterious bulwark.