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‘The Human Voice’ Review: Almodóvar Meets Cocteau Meets Swinton

The first English-language film from the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar stars Tilda Swinton and adapts Jean Cocteau to sublime results.

‘Concrete Cowboy’ Review: Acquiring Horse Sense on the Philly Streets

Idris Elba leads us through the long-buried heritage of America’s Black cowboys, manifested in their modern-day urban descendants.

‘Six Minutes to Midnight’ Review: A Finishing School for the Nazi Elite

In this suspense thriller set in the 1930s, Judi Dench and Eddie Izzard are stalwart Brits at a sinister girls’ school in England.

‘Tina’ Review: A Music Icon Looks Back With Grace

The documentary about Tina Turner, who is now in her 80s, is not just a summing up of her life, but a kind of farewell.

‘Senior Moment’ Review: A Romance That Wouldn’t Hurt a Flea

This Giorgio Serafini movie takes us to a retirement center, a drag race and the DMV, not to mention a dizzying encounter on public transportation.

‘Happily’ Review: Does Long-Lived Love Mean You Need Treatment?

In this keeps-you-guessing comedy, Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé play a couple married for 14 years whose mutual passion is undimmed, to the annoyance of...

‘Wojnarowicz’ Review: A Revolutionary Provocateur

A documentary on the artist David Wojnarowicz shows the ways that the rebel was a prophet, and honors him appropriately.

‘Before the Dying of the Light’ Review: Moroccan Cinema’s Attempted Revolution

This Ali Essafi documentary presents an inspiring view of the roiling visual-arts scene in 1970s Morocco.

‘Honeydew’ Review: Homegrown Horror

A camping trip gone wrong lands a tetchy couple at a remote farm in this horror tale.

‘Truth or Consequences’ Review: Ghost Town at the End of the World

Hannah Jayanti’s “speculative documentary” about the New Mexico town is both haunted and haunting.

‘Chaos Walking’ Review: Just Thinking Out Loud

Daisy Ridley plays the only woman to arrive on a planet full of men, whose thoughts are visibly on display, in this sci-fi thriller.

‘Cherry’ Review: A Very Different Tangled Web for Tom Holland

Joe and Anthony Russo, the M.C.U. filmmaking brothers, stretch out into the real world of war, crime and addiction in a gritty drama based on...