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Stefan Ruzowitzky’s film sets a serial-killer mystery in Vienna after the ravages of World War I and employs some dazzling blue-screen backdrops.

The filmmaker Reid Davenport, by turns pensive and irritated, takes viewers inside his life as a disabled person through footage shot entirely from his perspective.

This elegantly visualized dystopian fantasy envelops us in the world of a gifted girl fending for survival with her sickly father.

This winsome reboot of a British children’s classic, directed by Morgan Matthews, also addresses racial segregation in the armed forces during World War II.

The men and women in this densely story-filled documentary recount taking up arms as members of the Jewish resistance in the forests of Eastern Europe.

Jon Hamm bops along amiably enough as the carefree, wiseacre detective once played by Chevy Chase.

The director, Laura Poitras, praised Nan Goldin, the photographer and subject of her film, in her acceptance speech.

This character study from Harry Wootliff bottles the lightning of a torrid fling.

In 20 years and several “Resident Evil” films, the couple has found their love language in action — and a lot of blood and dust.

Leave as is? Translate? Change altogether? A movie’s success doesn’t depend entirely on what we call it, but it can have a big effect.