This month’s picks include elaborate ambulance chasing, a killer shark and crime south of the border.
The Beatles during rehearsals for the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium in 1963.
John Prine in 1975. A profound sense of intimacy was the hallmark of his work.
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
In this month’s picks, a portrait of a vanguard filmmaker, a look back at a televised clash between writers, and a reflection on a Hollywood star and pinup.
The birds’ presence lends an otherworldly air to this nonfiction look at a family farm in a dying North Macedonian village.
Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black delivered a lesson on chemistry, good and bad, in the 2006 Nancy Meyers rom-com.
Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s miliary dictatorship.
In this dazzling essay movie, the director Kahlil Joseph draws on an array of sources — news clips, old movies, family albums, an encyclopedia of ”Africana” — to create a thrilling whole.
Lyle Lovett, Bonnie Raitt, Kacey Musgraves and other luminaries perform Prine’s songs in this engaging concert film.
A grieving father struggles to care for his two children after the death of his wife. Even with its star, Benedict Cumberbatch, the movie never takes flight.
Was a freelance photographer intentionally left out of the famous Vietnam War photo of “Napalm Girl”?
The filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou tells a sensitive story of a mother and her two daughters struggling to get by in Taiwan.
Elizabeth Olsen plays a dead woman who must choose her forever partner in this silly afterlife rom-com.
The “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” actor and the author of “Alphabetical Diaries” met for a wide-ranging conversation.
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in a heartbreaking adaptation of the best-selling novel.
A sequel to the 2016 hit, this movie about an animal metropolis takes on an even messier social allegory than the first one, while building out a wider (if bloated) universe.
Josh O’Connor leads a star-studded cast in the latest Benoit Blanc mystery — this one, about religious cults of personality.
This documentary looks back at a group of teenagers who, in the early 1990s, created a high school video project that ended up breaking real news.
Udo Kier in a scene from Gus Van Sant’s “My Own Private Idaho” (1991). He gravitated to transgressive fare.