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‘My Imaginary Country’ Review: Chile in Revolt
Patricio Guzmán, Chile’s cinematic conscience, chronicles the uprising that shook the country starting in 2019.

‘Athena’ Review: Oh Brothers, Where Art Thou?
A besieged French housing project is the setting for Romain Gavras’s relentlessly kinetic action movie.

‘Pearl’ Review: A Farmer’s Daughter Moves Up the Food Chain
A horror-movie killer gets a surprising origin story in Ti West’s prequel to “X.”

‘Moonage Daydream’ Review: David Bowie’s Sound and Vision
Brett Morgen’s new documentary about the singer uses archival material, not talking heads. But the film is more séance than biography.

‘Hold Me Tight’ Review: An Étude in the Key of Grief
In Mathieu Amalric’s new film, Vicky Krieps plays a mother who tries to stay close to her family by running away.

At the Telluride Film Festival, ‘Women Talking’ and Other Topics of Conversation
Up in the mountains, feminism, artistic solipsism, Lady Chatterley and Cate Blanchett mingle in an expansive vision of mainstream moviemaking.

‘Vengeance’ Review: A Dish Best Served With Frito Pie
In this comedic culture-war thriller, B.J. Novak, who wrote and directed, plays an aspiring podcaster chasing a true-crime story in West Texas.

‘My Old School’ Review: An Impostor Makes the Honor Roll
A documentary uses animation and professional actors to tell the story of a once-notorious hoax.

‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes
Jordan Peele’s genre-melting third feature stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as brother-and-sister horse wranglers defending the family ranch from an extraterrestrial threat.

‘Marx Can Wait’ Review: A Director Digs Into His Brother’s Death
In a moving new documentary, the Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio gathers his fascinating, aging family members to make sense of their brother’s suicide.