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‘Fire in the Mountains’ Review: The Mother of All Struggles

Vinamrata Rai plays a rural Indian woman driven to the edge by family pressures in Ajitpal Singh’s tough and generous first feature.

‘Il Buco’ Review: Notes From Underground

A 1961 Italian spelunking expedition is the subject of Michelangelo Frammartino’s contemplative new film.

‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review: Who’s Mad?

Benedict Cumberbatch returns for some more mystic Marvel mumbo-jumbo, though Sam Raimi manages to inject a sense of horror every now and then.

‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate

Gaspar Noé’s new film chronicles the decline of an elderly couple in remorseless, mesmerizing detail.

‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern

Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicole Kidman star in Robert Eggers’s bloody Viking revenge saga.

‘Hit the Road’ Review: Wheels Within Wheels

A family trip is the occasion for humor and heartbreak in Panah Panahi’s debut feature.

‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui?

In Jane Schoenbrun’s first feature, a teenager finds terror and distraction in a multiplayer online game.

‘Donbass’ Review: War in Ukraine, the Prequel

Sergei Loznitsa’s film, completed in 2018, presents an absurd, horrific tableau of cruelty and corruption.

‘Ambulance’ Review: Michael Bay Is Our Emergency Movie Technician

The action auteur’s latest opus stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as bank robbers who commandeer an unlikely getaway vehicle.

‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ Review: OK, Boomer

Richard Linklater’s new animated film tells the story of the moon landing with some tongue-in-cheek revisionism.