Ben Kenigsberg
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‘Choose or Die’ Review: Press Start. Or Not.
In this horror movie, a vintage computer game forces players to make gruesome decisions.
‘All the Old Knives’ Review: Shooting Daggers Across the Table
In this thriller, Thandiwe Newton and Chris Pine work to out-smolder and outwit each other as old C.I.A. colleagues and former lovers catching up over...
‘The Girl and the Spider’ Review: Where Did I Put That Thing?
The twin brothers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher have created a wonderfully discombobulating feature about an apartment move.
‘The Bubble’ Review: Swabs, Camera, Action
Judd Apatow’s new film is a comedy about actors trying to make a dinosaur movie during the pandemic that plays more like a documentary of...
Stream These Three Great Documentaries
This month’s nonfiction picks include a surprising look at a World War II veteran and a fresh dive into footage shot during the first year...
Peter Bogdanovich Had a Vision for This Film. Now It’s Finally Being Seen.
“She’s Funny That Way” wasn’t exactly the movie he set out to make, but the director’s cut was feared lost. How it came to be...
‘King Otto’ Review: For Greece, a Whole Different Ballgame.
Christopher André Marks analyzes the Greek national soccer team’s championship season under the leadership of a German coach.
‘The Last Mountain’ Review: Impossible Summits
This documentary from Chris Terrill struggles to make emotional sense of its story, involving a mother and a son who both died on climbs.
‘Last Exit: Space’ Review: Not-So-Final Frontiers
The director Rudolph Herzog, with his father, Werner Herzog, narrating, explores the feasibility of off-world colonization.
‘The Jump’ Review: A Seaman’s Story of a Daring Escape
This documentary looks back at a Cold War defection drama that took place off the coast of Massachusetts.