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‘Backspot’ Review: Queer Cheer-Squad Drama

This queer high school movie, starring Devery Jacobs and Evan Rachel Wood, channels an after-school special without the coming-out trauma.

‘Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara’ Review: Church vs. State

This film, based on a true story about the kidnapping of a Jewish child in 19th-century Italy, underscores the devastating consequences of family separation.

‘Aisha’ Review: Seeking Asylum in Ireland

The “Black Panther” star Letitia Wright shows understated vulnerability in this immigrant drama by Frank Berry. Josh O’Connor (“Challengers”) also stars.

‘Stress Positions’ Review: It’s Giving Pandemonium

The writer-director Theda Hammel’s biting, delirious quarantine comedy skewers white gay men in a world where fact, fiction and authentic experiences collide.

‘Chicken for Linda!’ Review: A Comedy That Cooks

In this madcap film, a mother’s apology leads to a delightful misadventure that begins with mourning and ends with a father’s favorite recipe.

Steve Buscemi’s ‘The Listener’ Looks at Post-Covid Loneliness

Tessa Thompson’s still and luminous performance makes this post-Covid drama about loneliness, directed by Steve Buscemi, worth watching.

‘Mea Culpa’ Review: Who’s Really to Blame, and for What?

The tagline of Tyler Perry’s new movie is “everyone’s guilty of something,” but the responsibility for this willfully steamy, decidedly silly thriller is all his.

‘Here’ Review: A Celebration of Connection

In Bas Devos’s muted and luminous Belgian drama, two lonely souls repeatedly encounter each other.

‘Which Brings Me to You’ Review: Out With the Old?

This rom-com boasts a clever conceit that at times feels a little cluttered.

‘Inshallah a Boy’ Review: Where the Male Line Is the Only Line

In this film by Amjad Al Rasheed, a young widow in Jordan strains against the tradition, underpinned by law, that without a man she is…