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‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Review: The Master Blasters

A new documentary looks back at the band’s early years, featuring interviews with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in retrospective mode.

‘The Fishing Place’ Review: A Village Under Suspicion

Rob Tregenza’s latest film, set in a German-occupied Norwegian village, follows a housekeeper dispatched to spy on a priest.

‘Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story’ Review: Her Life as a Cabaret

The fizzy, determinedly upbeat documentary charts how Liza Minnelli survived Hollywood. It’s inspiring, jaw-dropping and conspicuously incomplete.

‘Presence’ Review: Paranormal Friend or Foe?

Steven Soderbergh’s new chiller takes place in one of the most troubled of all movie locations: an outwardly normal family home.

David Lynch Showed Us Who We Are in Dark Masterpieces Like ‘Eraserhead’

The director himself came off as almost performatively normal. Masterpieces like “Eraserhead” and “Mulholland Drive” said otherwise.

‘The Last Showgirl’ Review: Pamela Anderson Is Dazzling

The actress stars as a dancer at a Las Vegas revue on its last fishnet leg in Gia Coppola’s sensitive and beguiling film.

‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Review: It’s Alive!

In Nick Park’s latest charming stop-motion animated film, the inventor-beagle team discovers the joys and dangers of technology.

One Indelible Scene: Yearning and Loss in ‘All We Imagine as Light’

A mysterious rice cooker and a rainstorm combine to convey what a woman doesn’t speak of.

‘Babygirl’ Review: Nicole Kidman Takes Control

Nicole Kidman bares body and some soul in a story about a married woman who enters a dominant-submissive affair with a younger man.

‘The Brutalist’ Review: Adrien Brody Leads a Bold Architectural Saga

Adrien Brody stars as a talented architect who flees postwar Europe to meet his match in America, a power-hungry industrialist played by Guy Pearce.