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‘I Love America’ Review: The Gauche Rituals of Modern Romance

The determinedly uplifting comedy follows a 50-year-old French filmmaker as she dates in Los Angeles.

‘Father Stu’ Review: Screwball Salvation

Mark Wahlberg throws himself into the real-life story of an oddball priest in Rosalind Ross’s debut feature.

‘A-ha: The Movie’ Review: The Creative Purgatory of the ‘Take on Me’ Trio

The documentary about the Norwegian synth-pop band plays like a slavish yet intermittently lucid Wikipedia entry.

‘RRR’ Review: A Hero (or Two) Shall Rise

Scenes of glorious excess make the screen hum with energy in S.S. Rajamouli’s action epic set in British colonial India.

Using Film to Tell a Personal History of America and Race

With “Who We Are,” the lecturer Jeffery Robinson and the directors Emily and Sarah Kunstler follow in the tradition of documentaries that excavate our past.

Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject

In documentaries and fictional features, including two timely new movies, Sergei Loznitsa takes a hard look at both countries, examining daily life amid war and...

‘Bull’ Review: Vengeance Is His

The British crime thriller plays out a meat-and-potatoes (or bangers-and-mash) revenge story with suitable menace and more than a dash of Grand Guignol.

Danny Glover on Acting, Activism and His Honorary Oscar

The actor and producer is receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Oscars. Here, he discusses a history in movies and in social justice.

‘Josep’ Review: Escaping a Civil War

The French cartoonist known as Aurel animates the life of the Catalan illustrator Josep Bartolí, who lived in French internment camps and loved Frida Kahlo.

‘Big Gold Brick’ Review: Sad Sack Makes Good

Shaggy and dull, this film follows a slovenly writer who’s taken in by the man who hit him with a car.