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‘Two Tickets to Greece’ Review: Advisory Travel

Former middle-school friends with clashing temperaments take an Aegean excursion in this contrived French fluff.

‘The League’ Review: A Crucial Baseball Legacy

Sam Pollard’s new documentary traces the history of the Negro leagues.

‘Millie Lies Low’ Review: An Unexpected Staycation

After botching a trip to New York, an aspiring architect in New Zealand pretends to be there anyway.

Stream These Three Great Documentaries

This month’s picks obsess over the methods of Pablo Picasso and Stanley Kubrick; and dissect three minutes of film footage taken in Poland in 1938.

‘Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ Review

A documentary examines how the winner for best picture of 1969 captured shifts in American life.

‘Happer’s Comet’ Review: Live by Night

The writer-director Tyler Taormina shot this highly experimental feature, which mostly takes place after dark, during the most restrictive phase of the pandemic.

‘Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)’ Review: Indelible Images by Design

Anton Corbijn’s documentary shares anecdotes from the British design studio that devised some of the most famous album covers of the 1970s.

‘Concerned Citizen’ Review: He Cares a Lot

An Israeli’s guilt over an act of police brutality he indirectly caused is the crux of this drama from Idan Haguel.

Stream These Three Great Documentaries

This month’s selections include a look at a political activist’s life, a reconsideration of a controversial Israeli thesis and a portrait of an author and...

Summer Movies 2023: ‘Barbie,’ ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.’

Barbie springs to life, Indy swings into action and Spidey slings new webs. Here are 107 films for movie lovers of all tastes.