Film Review

Bo Burnham’s shy heroine searches for her elusive self in the last week of middle school.

Dwayne Johnson’s humanity provides a firm foundation for a gleefully silly action-thriller.

In this dark Icelandic drama, a domestic dispute unleashes anger and grief.

Marvel’s brighter follow up to the original is a high-flying epic with a tighter focus.

Whitney Houston’s life goes back under the microscope in a tough-minded and unsparing new documentary.

Tim Wardle’s documentary tells the story of three men who discovered that they were identical triplets, separated shortly after birth.

Debra Granik, the director of ‘Winter’s Bone,’ returns with another feature about family bonds, this time about a father and daughter living off the grid.

Eugene Jarecki’s film about Elvis swings between intriguing and frustrating.

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard leap back into action to save an island of dinos from being wiped out by a volcano or turned into weapons.

From dystopian fictions to thoughtful documentaries, the films in a series at the Museum of the Moving Image present bracingly diverse views of contemporary Russian life.

Disney’s long-awaited sequel doesn’t live up to the matchless original

A silly, frenzied comedy sends a surprisingly sweet message.

A grieving family falls apart in Ari Aster’s debut feature, a relentless horror film.

As a Brooklyn couple tries to get their young son into school, they worry that his gender experimentation will affect his chances of admission.

An attempt to steal rare books from Transylvania University doesn’t go according to plan.

Baltasar Kormákur’s film, about a couple who got swept away in a tropical depression, features characters who drag down the story.

After the deaths of her mother and father, a 6-year-old girl moves from the city to the countryside and struggles with her loss.

A documentary about our desire to touch the void is both an ode to exploration and a warning about human destruction.

The smuggler-turned-hero gets an origin tale with few surprises.

In Paul Schrader’s latest drama, Ethan Hawke is a solitary pastor trying to reconcile hope with the despair that threatens to consume him.

Ryan Reynolds returns to the role that made him a surprise action star.

A star-packed quartet of older women renew their friendship in a group transfixed by a racy novel.

A burgeoning romance on a Channel Island is shadowed by violence.

Xavier Beauvois’s beautiful film looks at the women who toiled in the fields in France while their men were off fighting the Great War.