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‘Monster’ Review: Uncovering a Mother-Son Japanese Mystery

This drama from Hirokazu Kore-eda traces a series of events from the perspectives of a single mother, her preteen son and his fifth-grade teacher.

‘JFK: What the Doctors Saw’ Review: A Clinical Take

Barbara Shearer’s documentary unpacks the medical opinions of physicians who treated John F. Kennedy in Dallas.

‘Radical’ Review: To Sergio With Love

A vaguely unconventional teacher galvanizes disadvantaged eighth graders in this highly conventional drama.

‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Review: Creepypizza

This adaptation of a video game franchise is more interested in unpacking childhood trauma than packing in jump scares.

‘Waiting for the Light to Change’ Review: Listless in a Lakeside Cabin

In her feature debut, the director Linh Tran tries to capture the longing and inertia between adolescence and adulthood.

‘Reality Winner’ Review: Caught in the Cross Hairs

Sonia Kennebeck’s documentary unpacks the circumstances surrounding its subject, but fails to crack her complexity.

‘My Love Affair With Marriage’ Review: A Tale of Love and Loss

This animated musical about a young woman’s sexual and romantic awakening uses a gloriously tactile aesthetic.

‘Reptile’ Review: Unusual Suspects

Benicio Del Toro plays a detective investigating a suburban homicide in this overstuffed thriller.

‘Cassandro’ Review: Gael García Bernal as the Luchador Saúl Armendáriz

Gael García Bernal plays a flamboyant figure taking the world of Mexican professional wrestling by storm in this underdog drama directed by Roger Ross Williams.

‘Love at First Sight’ Review: Sense, Sensibility and Statistics

Two lovebirds-to-be meet at an airport in this unoriginal but sturdy Y.A. romance, which pivots on the probability of falling in love.