They set out to subvert expectations for depictions of motherhood. ?There?s conscientious discomfort,? Heller says. Reactions have been polarized.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste?s lead role in ?Hard Truths,? directed by Mike Leigh, is her most substantial onscreen role since ?Secrets and Lies? earned them Academy Award nominations in 1997.

Amy Adams plays a stay-at-home mom who comes to believe that she?s a dog in Marielle Heller?s adaptation of the Rachel Yoder novel.

The film argues that Loie Fuller was an inventive artist responsible for things we take for granted. If only the movie were as creative as its star.

Only the women who?ve played Elphaba and Glinda in the show?s two decades onstage understand why the roles are so taxing ? and so rewarding, too.

The British director casts the superb Marianne Jean-Baptiste in the role of an excruciatingly lonely character whose pain reveals hidden depths.

The director Malcolm Washington narrates a sequence from the film featuring Danielle Deadwyler.

Whether you?re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

From ?Our Little Secret? to ?The Merry Gentlemen,? a roundup of several holiday movies to stream this season.

A top-selling pop singer as a teenager in the 1980s, she also had an award-winning career as a dramatic actress.

The slippers, worn by Judy Garland in ?The Wizard of Oz,? were stolen from the museum that bears her name in 2005 before investigators recovered them in 2018.

She found outsize success in her native land and gained international recognition for her work with the acclaimed Spanish surrealist director Luis Buñuel.

The Academy Award-winning actress discusses her lifelong quest for connection, humanity?s innate goodness and the point of being alive.

Troy Baker, the industry?s go-to voice actor, channels a young Harrison Ford in the action-adventure Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Ilana Kaplan?s new coffee table book pays tribute to the godmother of the modern rom-com.

This month?s picks include a sneaky serial killer, a boy?s vengeance quest and a holiday house of horrors.

The director Malcolm Washington narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Danielle Deadwyler.

No genre gesture goes untapped in this Netflix film, a coming-of-age saga about the Virgin Mary featuring Anthony Hopkins as King Herod.

The original Superman actor gets a comprehensive, if narrow-mindedly celebratory, tribute in this traditional talking-heads-style doc.

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche burn through the screen in this grim take on the homecoming of Odysseus.

The thriller, about a white supremacist (Nicholas Hoult) and the killing of a real-life radio host, among other crimes, hits familiar genre beats.

A stoic former convict reluctantly teams up with his would-be victim in this off-kilter film by Jeffrey Reiner.

This grim and exceptionally stylish film centers on a Danish woman who becomes tied up in the black-market baby trade.

Revisiting a boxing classic, and honoring a filmmaking legend.

Recently rediscovered and now digitally restored, Lino Brocka?s 1980 movie, starring Nora Aunor, opens for a week at Metrograph.

A computer glitch makes electronics go haywire in this zany and nostalgic horror-comedy from the comedian Kyle Mooney.

In ?Unstoppable? a focused Jharrel Jerome stars as Anthony Robles, who won a 2011 NCAA wrestling title and was born with one leg.

Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader?s meditative drama about guilt and seeking forgiveness.

Joshua Oppenheimer?s postapocalyptic musical about a wealthy family in an underground bunker is placidly disturbing.

The real-life murderer who inspired ?The Girl With the Needle? was ?a monster,? said the actress who plays her, ?but the movie is also about showing you her struggles.?

This month has a ton of new titles arriving for U.S. subscribers, including a Nate Bargatze special and the return of ?Squid Game.?

The past decade?s clumsiest attempts to cram new faces into old stories now feel like a moment, and a genre, of their own.

The ?Succession? actor is an awards front-runner for ?A Real Pain,? but his actual priority is being a dad: ?That?s the whole point of life.?

The kickoff to awards season has a mixed record but can help lift small films like the two surprise winners.

In ?Giant Love,? the novelist?s great-niece chronicles the Texas saga?s divisive reception and the epic film adaptation that?s now better known than the book.

In an interview, Mr. Allen describes the years he spent collaborating with Mr. Brickman, a friend, on beloved movies. Mr. Brickman died on Friday.

A bunch of movies and TV shows are leaving for U.S. subscribers by the end of December. Here?s a roundup of the best.

?Pop Culture Jeopardy!,? ?Laid,? ?Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,? ?Christmas Eve in Miller?s Point? and ?Sugarcane? are arriving.

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