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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.