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‘Stars at Noon’ Review: A Not-So-Innocent Abroad

Claire Denis’s captivating new film, starring Margaret Qualley and based on the novel by Denis Johnson, treads familiar territory in a foreign land.

‘Casablanca Beats’ Review: Hip-Hop Isn’t Dead

Nabil Ayouch’s exuberant musical declares that the genre hasn’t faded; it has just been hiding in a Moroccan slum.

‘House of Darkness’ Review: If You Prick Them, Do Bros Not Bleed?

The writer-director Neil LaBute takes a crack at the post-#MeToo revenge parable but offers more irony than insight.

‘We Are Living Things’ Review: The Truth Is Out There

Two undocumented immigrants from opposite sides of the world connect in Brooklyn — and over their shared trauma relating to apparent alien abductions.

‘A Balance’ Review: Critical Distance

Yujiro Harumoto’s slow-build morality tale puts an ambitious documentary maker in an uncomfortable position as her life begins to resemble her films.

‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’ Review: Paradise Tossed

In Mounia Akl’s ambitious debut feature, a family’s attempts to escape the filth of Beirut go awry when the garbage follows them to their doorstep.

‘Olga’ Review: Tough Balancing Act for a Ukrainian Girl in Exile

Elie Grappe’s quietly poignant film about a young gymnast finds her torn between her passion and the violence gripping her country — in 2013.

Stream These 11 Titles Before They Leave Netflix This Month

A lot of great movies and TV shows are expiring for subscribers in the United States in June. Here are the ones worth finding time...

‘A New Old Play’ Review: Even the Clown Show Must Go On

Qiu Jiongjiong’s absurdist epic of 20th century China is both a movie and a play, both tragedy and farce.