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‘Little Trouble Girls’ Review: Teenage Infatuation

Despite awareness of taboos, two girls in a Catholic school choir are drawn to each other in this feature debut by the Slovenian director Urska…

‘The Running Man’ Review: Glen Powell Plays for His Life

The actor stars as an Everyman battling it out in a near-future but familiarly dystopian America in the director Edgar Wright’s new version of the…

‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater Ode to ‘Breathless’

The American director moves his sights to Paris in 1959, when a young, cocky Jean-Luc Godard is hustling to make his first (now legendary) movie.

‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: The Boss in the Void

Jeremy Allen White plays the singer-songwriter in an affecting drama about the making of his 1982 album “Nebraska” when he slipped into a terrible darkness.

‘The Mastermind’ Review: A Robbery and a Life Unraveling

The title of Kelly Reichardt’s latest film has a distinct irony for Josh O’Connor’s blundering museum thief.

Often Overlooked, Diane Keaton Was Essential to ‘The Godfather’ Saga

The star’s emotional transparency and expressive eyes helped us see the Corleones as both fascinating and repellent, just as her character did.

‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian

His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life.

New York Film Festival Highlights

This year’s highlights include Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother,” the Italian documentary “Below the Clouds” and the epic “Magellan.”

‘One Battle After Another’ Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Rallying Cry

The director, at the height of his powers, delivers a startling, present-day American epic, with Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up radical and doting dad.

‘Megadoc’ Review: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Pricey Passion Project

This documentary by Mike Figgis about Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is at once expansive and intimate, and sometimes very revealing.