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‘Drive My Car’ Review: A Director Takes Your Heart for a Spin

In this quiet masterpiece, Ryusuke Hamaguchi considers grief, love, work and the soul-sustaining, life-shaping power of art.

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Review: A Play for Nostalgia and Merch

Jason Reitman, son of the original “Ghostbusters” director, delivers a toothless film with Paul Rudd as a love interest and plenty of cutesy ghosts.

‘C’mon C’mon’ Review: Are You My Mommy?

In Mike Mills’s latest film, Joaquin Phoenix plays an uncle who takes care of his precocious nephew during a family crisis.

‘What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?’ Review: But I Digress

Two strangers become near-lovers in a movie that invites you to think more about the perfectly, simply, ordinary life around them.

‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks

Rebecca Hall’s piercing drama stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as old friends navigating the color line in 1920s New York.

The Glory of Nina Mae McKinney, an Early Black Star in White Hollywood

With the 1929 “Hallelujah!,” the actress shot to stardom. Hollywood made sure she didn’t stay there, as a new Film Forum series shows.

‘Les Éternels’: les super-franchises redescendent sur Terre

Après “Nomadland", Oscar du Meilleur Film, la réalisatrice Chloé Zhao s’essaie au blockbuster avec le dernier-né des Marvel, un casting séduisant à l’appui.

‘Hive’ Review: In the Aftermath of War, a Survivor Finds Herself

In a tough, taut drama, the director Blerta Basholli explores the lives of women whose husbands went missing in the Kosovo War.

‘Eternals’ Review: When Super Franchises Walk the Earth!

A pleasing cast and the director Chloé Zhao, who won a best picture Oscar for “Nomadland,” give Marvel’s latest a steady heartbeat.