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Speculative science fiction, period drama and sly thrillers are among this month’s off-the-beaten-path recommendations from your subscription streamers.

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Back in New York City after filming a movie, the actress has been racing to shows while also rehearsing for Sunday night’s ceremony.

In his decade at ABC, long the doormat network in prime time, he helped guide it toward the No. 1 spot. He later produced “Nashville” and won an Emmy for “Friendly Fire.”

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

His keyboard, which became famous after Tom Hanks melodiously hopped on it, displayed Mr. Saraceni’s vision of technology powered by “people energy.”

The director Kelsey Mann narrates a sequence from his film.

A new documentary revisits the group of young actors that helped define the decade. Here are some of its most interesting moments.

A superhero raises a baby monster in this animated film. But the action is dragged down by talky sequences about parental responsibility.

Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry star in a Holocaust-memory drama that uneasily doubles as a father-daughter road movie.

A triumph of sensitivity, Noah Schamus’s debut feature tracks a rural reunion between old friends struggling to recover their bond.

The writer-director David Duchovny plays a long-suffering Red Sox fan with cancer who may yet live to see the team defeat the Yankees.

Top-shelf actors and authentic Tudor table-setting fail to quicken this glumly unfocused take on the exploits of Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr.

A father and son resort to desperate measures to save an ailing child in this Texas-set dramatic thriller.

The film is a gentle, emotional drama about a family struggling to stay together. It’s also about the power of theater.

In this documentary, Andrew McCarthy examines fame and disappointment as a member of the so-called Brat Pack of the 1980s.

Once labeled a “natural-born heavy,” he shined onscreen and especially onstage, securing a Tony nomination and winning an Obie Award.

The deal is a rare example of a traditional Hollywood studio owning a movie theater chain.

Blake Lively, Jude Law, Selma Blair and many more turned out for the Tribeca Film Festival’s annual artists dinner, ahead of a weekend devoted to Mr. De Niro’s work.

The ride was closed last year because of its connection to a racist film. Disney overhauled it to focus on Tiana, Disney’s first Black princess, drawing praise and backlash.

The director Richard Linklater narrates a pivotal sequence from his rom-com thriller.

Richard Linklater, the director of “Hit Man,” narrates a pivotal sequence from his film, starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona.

A graphic on the Peacock home screen seemed to induct the killer doll into the gay pantheon. His creator, however, says Chucky’s queer credentials are well established.

When the museum first opened, it was criticized for omitting Hollywood’s Jewish pioneers. Now it is under fire for what its new exhibit says about them.

At St. Ann’s Warehouse, a collaboration between a Danish director and a South African troupe that questions the tropes of Western films.

For Jennifer Lopez, Sterling K. Brown, Dakota Johnson and others, the standard publicity push isn’t so standard anymore.

The actress, who stars with Glen Powell, said that with the contract-killer movie, her ideas were finally valued in a writers’ room.

The actress is taking on serious roles, trying to overcome self-doubt and sharing more about her personal life — but she’s not done being funny.

She just finished playing Flannery O’Connor and released a new album. Next up: “Inside Out 2” and a new season of “Stranger Things.”

She bore a startling resemblance to Elizabeth II. In “The Naked Gun” and other movies, and in comedy sketches on TV, she wore the crown lightly.

In a town littered with would-be superstars, he’s trying to beat the odds by giving studios what they crave. It’s no coincidence he’s everywhere.

This month’s sci-fi picks include alienoids, bionic athletes and a little creature named Godzilla.

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This month’s picks include an animated musical comedy starring Brittany Howard and a Marvel superhero adventure packed with martial arts.

Jenny Nicholson’s granular critique of Disney’s Galactic Starcruiser experience reflects the fraught relationship between studios and fans right now.

“Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” the latest entry in a nearly three-decade- old franchise, will be Smith’s first wide-release film since he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars in 2022.

He hates Mondays, he’s No. 1 at the box office and he’s been the subject of a lot of weirdness over the last 40-plus years.

The folk-horror genre welcomes a young new voice in the director Ishana Night Shyamalan, but she’s singing a familiar old tune.

The story of a Seattle-area bandit is rife with big questions, but the movie doesn’t explore them. Not every podcast needs to be a film.

The romantic shenanigans are the stuff of Hollywood, but the film’s fake contract killer is based on a real man profiled in a Texas Monthly article.

The filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy illuminates this elliptical story, set in unnamed Senegalese village, with daubs of strong colors and strikingly vivid imagery.

Richard Gere plays it way too cool as a man learning about the son he didn’t know he had.

The film, which stars Rachel Sennott as a stand-up comedian, looks at the aftereffects of trauma on a character who wields quips as both weapon and shield.

The filmmaker talks about the inspirations for the characters in “Megalopolis” and “The Godfather,” and responds to recent allegations.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus journeys from denial to acceptance in this imaginative fantasy-drama about grief and motherhood.

Dakota Johnson stars in an expansive friendship comedy about coming out in your 30s and finding yourself.

From a palazzo in Venice, she talks about her struggling business, her marriage to Barry Diller, and the threesome that never happened.

Mr. Anderson had a breakout role in “Friday the 13th” and went on to appear in more than 300 TV episodes, including a recurring role as the father on “Felicity.”

Saleka and Ishana Night Shyamalan are collaborating with their father, M. Night Shyamalan, on the thrillers “The Watchers” and “Trap.” The release dates are a happy coincidence.

The festival favors abundance, which can make it easy for cinema fans (and critics) to miss the loveliest trees for the sheer breadth of forest.