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Samuel Beckett’s life is reduced to mommy and daddy issues in a biopic that offers simple explanations for the career of a complex writer.

In this modest second feature, a disillusioned business-school graduate, taking a breather in high-altitude Wyoming, meets a rugged fly-fishing instructor.

This month’s picks include an all-archival film about the atomic bomb, a portrait of a Hollywood star and inventor, and a profile of a hospital...

In this Chinese police procedural, directed by Wei Shujun, solutions are murkier than they first appear.

In a frustrating documentary, the journalist Ibrahim Nash’at shows the Taliban after American troops left Afghanistan.

Guy Pearce plays a minister who arrives in New Zealand and finds his allegiances change in this antipodean western set in the 19th century.

This month’s picks look at a summer in Paris, a summer at the Olympics and the heat of the erotic thriller.

The British filmmaking team were maestros of Technicolor and so much more. If you don’t know their work, your favorite directors do.

The young directors Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía (Beba) Contreras stargaze, watch fireworks and discuss their lives in this documentary filmed in Laredo, Texas.

Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry star in a Holocaust-memory drama that uneasily doubles as a father-daughter road movie.