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‘The Settlers’ Review: Writing the History of Modern Chile, in Blood

This harrowing drama takes place in Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago in the southernmost part of South America, in 1901.

‘Mean Girls’ Review: ‘Get in, Loser,’ Regina George Is Back

Still puffily padded but no longer particularly tart, this shape-shifting classic about the girls you love to hate retains its ingratiating charms.

‘Memory’ Review: A Contrived Drama With Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard

In this contrived movie, Peter Sarsgaard stars as a man with dementia, and Jessica Chastain plays a caretaker with buried family secrets.

‘Memory’ Review: A Contrived Drama With a Trauma Plot

In this contrived movie, Peter Sarsgaard stars as a man with dementia, and Jessica Chastain plays a caretaker with buried family secrets.

The Grim Heartbeat Propelling ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

In a short but fast-moving sequence built around a children’s primer, Martin Scorsese lays out all the themes of this terrible true-crime tale.

‘Ferrari’ Review: Michael Mann Puts You in the Driver’s Seat

The director’s portrait of the Italian racecar impresario roars to life on the road, but home is a torment. Adam Driver stars with Penélope Cruz...

‘Occupied City’ Review: Mapping the Holocaust, Street by Street

In his four-and-half-hour documentary, the British director Steve McQueen charts the fate of Amsterdam’s Jewish population during the Nazi occupation.

‘The Iron Claw’ Review: Body Slams and Broken Lives

Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White play brothers in a melodrama inspired by the wrestling dynasty called the Von Erichs.

‘The Zone of Interest’ Review: A Hollow Holocaust

Jonathan Glazer has made a hollow, self-aggrandizing art-film exercise set in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

‘Wonka’ Review: Willy When He Was Young and Oh So Sweet

Timothée Chalamet stars as the chocolatier in this musical origin story, playing a wide-eyed innocent instead of an eccentric mad-hatter.