Critic’s Pick

‘Last Summer’ Review: A Shocking Affair to Remember

Few directors get as deeply under the skin as Catherine Breillat, a longtime provocateur who tests the limits of what the world thinks women should do and say and be.

By Manohla Dargis

Critic’s Pick

‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Everybody’s Looking for Something

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with a twisted fable triptych about dominating and being dominated.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Critic’s Pick

‘Janet Planet’ Review: A Sticky Summer Full of Small Dramas

Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story for both a misfit tween and her mother.

By Alissa Wilkinson

‘I Am: Celine Dion’ Review: You Saw the Best in Me

Dion’s voice made her a star. A new documentary on Amazon Prime Video brings her back to Earth, showing her intimate struggles with stiff person syndrome.

By Chris Azzopardi

‘A Family Affair’ Review: A Rom-Com With a Third Wheel

When Zara (Joey King) realizes that her mom (Nicole Kidman) is dating her boss (Zac Efron), she tries to split them up.

By Glenn Kenny

‘Fancy Dance’ Review: The Search for a Sister

This debut feature about a missing woman on an Oklahoma reservation is an imperfect but palpably emotional portrait of desperation and hard-won hope.

By Brandon Yu

‘Daddio’ Review: Two for the Road

Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson outclass a humdrum script as two people who talk — and talk — in a New York City taxicab.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

Review: In ‘June Zero,’ There Are Many Ways to See the Past

Jake Paltrow’s film braids three fictional stories around the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi official and war criminal.

By Nicolas Rapold

‘Confessions of a Good Samaritan’ Review: An Altruistic Story

In Penny Lane’s newest film, she turns the camera on herself to document her experience donating a kidney to a stranger.

By Natalia Winkelman

‘The Vourdalak’ Review: Blood Relations

An endangered French aristocrat is stranded with a benighted rural family in this tragicomic fairy tale.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

‘Music’ Review: Oedipus Rocks

An ethereal, experimental new drama retells the story of the mythical Greek hero.

By Beatrice Loayza

Critic’s Notebook

I Saw My Anxiety Reflected in ‘Inside Out 2.’ It Floored Me.

In a way that’s both cathartic and devastating, Pixar’s latest portrays how anxiety can take hold, our critic writes.

By Maya Phillips

Celine Dion Had a Medical Emergency. The Camera Kept Rolling

Irene Taylor, director of the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion,” talks about the decision to include a grueling scene of the pop star in crisis.

By Annie Aguiar

Kevin Costner Is Pursuing His Western Dream. Will Audiences Follow?

To make “Horizon,” he put his own money on the line and left “Yellowstone,” the series that revived his career — all with little Hollywood support.

By Nicole Sperling

‘The Lion King’ at 30: Jason Weaver Sang for Simba but Few Knew It

The actor was playing a young Michael Jackson when Elton John spotted him. Three decades later, the new attention to his legacy is “gratifying.”

By Ashley Spencer

Three Great Documentaries to Stream

This month’s picks look at a summer in Paris, a summer at the Olympics and the heat of the erotic thriller.

By Ben Kenigsberg

Seeking Serious Cinema on Streaming? Try Kino Film Collection.

The service is an art house answer to what’s missing on some of the more popular streamers.

By Jason Bailey

Five International Movies to Stream Now

This month’s selections include a Japanese serial-killer thriller, a Pride Month pick from Sri Lanka, a Malaysian drama about undocumented street hustlers and more.

By Devika Girish

Critic’s Notebook

‘White Chicks’ at 20: Comedy Beyond the Pale

The Wayans brothers’ subversive comedy is smarter than you remember.

By Robert Daniels

Critic’s Notebook

‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ at 20: Revisiting the Fear and Anger

Michael Moore’s hit documentary isn’t a prosecutor’s brief but a political and emotional appeal, rooted in the ways in which the country’s burdens are unequally borne.

By Nicolas Rapold