The actor has a man-out-of-time quality that makes him surprisingly like his character. But he is hyperaware of the present expectations riding on his performance.
This drama about a white family in Zimbabwe is told almost entirely from the girl’s point of view.
The director of the reboot, James Gunn, called the superhero from the planet Krypton “an immigrant,” thrusting the summer popcorn movie into an Earthbound culture war.
Her pivotal role performing a Spanish-language cover of Roy Orbison’s “Crying” in the 2001 David Lynch movie raised her profile, but her career was marked by misfortune.
This month’s picks include desperate fathers, a remorseful MMA fighter and more.
For the furry sidekick, Krypto, in “Superman,” the director James Gunn found inspiration — and a physical model — in his own unruly pet.
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
This month’s picks include a live-action version of Disney classic and an animated K-pop fantasy musical.
The director Petra Costa examines a rightward shift in her country by zeroing in on the rise of a televangelist.
David Corenswet as Superman, in the new movie. In the first comic featuring the character, in 1938, Clark Kent actively seeks to keep the hero out of the news.
Tyler Perry returns as a series of characters, and this time, the real struggle for the family is boarding a plane.
“Ne Zha 2,” which is based loosely on Chinese mythology and a famous 16th-century novel, has made $2.2 billion at the global box office.
The experimental director Jem Cohen’s latest is an uncategorizable film about astronomers and humanity and love and the stars.
In this agreeably unpretentious science-fiction feature, Henry Golding plays a D.J. who has lucid dreams about his dead girlfriend.
In this overly constructed thriller from Germany, tenants are trapped in an apartment building by a mysterious bulwark.
In this French coming-of-age drama, a young woman auditions for a reality show to escape life at home.
Nick Offerman stars as an anti-government widower whose extremist philosophy inches closer and closer to violent conflict.
A new restoration of a 1986 drama by the filmmaker Paul Vecchiali melds a candy-colored vision of the world’s oldest profession with a grim take on neoliberalism.
Beginning again with the Man of Steel, this time in the hands of James Gunn.
“I’m a history major from undergrad and grad school, and so I’m weaving all of this knowledge and experience” into the film, Danielle Deadwyler said.