

Manohla Dargis
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‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Nan Goldin’s Art and Activism
A new documentary focuses on the photographer’s struggle with OxyContin and her protest against the art establishment that took money from its makers.

‘EO’ Review: Imagining the Lives of Other Creatures
The titular character of this fantastic adventure is no Disneyfied, cutesy creature. The director Jerzy Skolimowski emphasizes his animality and un-knowableness.

‘The Wonder’ Review: The Hungry Woman
In this period drama, Florence Pugh plays a British nurse hired to observe an Irish girl who’s said not to have eaten in four months.

‘The Fabelmans’ Review: Spielberg’s Own Sentimental Education
The director’s latest movie focuses on a budding filmmaker a lot like himself. But Michelle Williams, as his mother, is the soul of this fractious...

‘Utama’ Review: This Bitter Earth
In Bolivia’s official submission to the next Oscars, an old Quechua couple struggle to find water to sustain them, their crops and llamas.

‘Call Jane’ Review: Abortion History That’s Being Repeated Now
A fictionalized drama about the Jane Collective, a clandestine group that helped women secure safe, illegal abortions before 1973, is of the moment.

‘Decision to Leave’ Review: A Labyrinth of Desire
Park Chan-wook’s latest, about a forlorn detective falling for his beautiful suspect, is an exuberant, destabilizing take on a classic film noir setup.

‘Till’ Review: He Was Someone’s Son, Too
Chinonye Chukwu’s new film reminds us that before his gruesome murder galvanized a civil rights movement, Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy with a doting...

‘Pretty Problems’ Review: A Getaway Goes Quirky
A woman spends a weekend with some wealthy new acquaintances and discovers something (though not nearly enough) about herself.

‘Amsterdam’ Review: A Madcap Mystery With Many Whirring Parts
Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington lead a crowded cast of zanies in David O. Russell’s latest screwball outing.