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This non-indulger will attest that you don't have to be high to find this long-impending sequel to 2002's "Super Troopers" very funny indeed.

Posted Apr 19, 2018

Beyond the Clouds (2018)

Persistent sentimentality - manifested most in the music score by A.R. Rahman - undercuts "Beyond the Clouds" at almost every turn.

Posted Apr 19, 2018

After Auschwitz (2018)

Ken Jaworowski

Jon Kean, the director, chose the material wisely and doesn't shy from severe images. He and his team also have good ears for anecdotes.

Posted Apr 19, 2018

The Devil and Father Amorth (2018)

If this documentary celebrates a crackpot, Mr. Friedkin is his match. The director's blabbermouth tendencies and wry manner make him an enjoyable M.C.

Posted Apr 19, 2018

Little Pink House (2018)

Palely photographed and anchored by a quiet, rather weary performance from Ms. Keener, "Little Pink House" is a peculiarly enervated affair.

Posted Apr 19, 2018

Ghost Stories (2018)

Managing to feel at once painfully slow and bafflingly truncated, this creaky triptych of not-so-scary tales is a tame curiosity of movie nostalgia.

Posted Apr 19, 2018

Kodachrome (2018)

If this earnest and forgettable road movie represents a meaningful tribute to taking pictures, we ought to go back to cave drawing.

Posted Apr 19, 2018

Godard Mon Amour (Le redoutable) (2018)

It's a brilliant idea. It just happens to be a terrible movie.

Posted Apr 18, 2018

This Is Our Land (Chez nous) (2018)

The drama is well-paced, and all of the actors are wonderful.

Posted Apr 17, 2018

Zama (2018)

Mr. Giménez Cacho, who appears in nearly every scene, anchors "Zama" beautifully in an expressive yet reserved performance that pulls you in intellectually rather than emotionally.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Elvis Presley: The Searcher (2018)

Jon Pareles

It shows Presley's passion and control, his visceral drama, his mastery. But it can't explain all that he left undone.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2018)

Wesley Morris

The documentary is a feat of portraiture and a restoration of humanity. It's got the uncanny, the sublime, and, in many spots, a combination of both.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Jeannette l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc) (2017)

"Jeannette" throws the modern back at the medieval, making no distinction between religious ecstasy and that experienced in certain contemporary contexts of music and ritual.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Wildling (2018)

This creature feature from the director Fritz Böhm is functional but lacks flavor, an imaginative spark that might distinguish it from any number of other I-was-a-teenage-monster movies.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Aardvark (2018)

"Aardvark" appears to be about coping with mental illness and the toll it takes on families, and another filmmaker might have had something of consequence to say about both.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Krystal (2018)

Teo Bugbee

"Krystal" feels chaotic and thin, like a pilot that was also forced to be a series finale.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Submergence (2018)

Ms. Dignam's script distills the novel into middlebrow Hollywood treacle.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Blumhouse's Truth or Dare (2018)

It does nothing to cleanse Mr. Wadlow of the lingering stench of his 2013 effort, "Kick-Ass 2." Even so, some setups can be unwittingly funny.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

The Judge (2018)

Ms. al-Faqih's likely Sisyphean battle to reach her position feels insufficiently underlined. Her mettle is on full view, though...

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018)

The director, Richard Lanni, whose biography also cites work as a battlefield tour guide, manages a fair amount of wit, particularly with a postcard montage of Stubby's first trip to Paris.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Come Sunday (2018)

While Marcus Hinchey's screenplay is occasionally too blunt, "Come Sunday" accords sympathetic moments to all its characters - a strategy that gives this chronicle of religious convictions a conviction of its own.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

An Ordinary Man (2018)

Ken Jaworowski

A head-scratcher that ends with a shoulder-shrug, "An Ordinary Man" feels like a scene-study exercise in which two actors invest full measures in a script that's only half finished.

Posted Apr 12, 2018

Borg Vs. McEnroe (2018)

An engaging feature-length response to the trivia question "Who won the Wimbledon men's singles title in 1980?"

Posted Apr 11, 2018

Rampage (2018)

As for Mr. Johnson, one hesitates to level a charge of "phoning it in" against him. He's a generally reliable performer, but I have to say it seems he had less fun here than he did in the recent Jumanji.

Posted Apr 11, 2018

The Rider (2018)

Ms. Zhao's commitment to her craft - she knows how to take care and when to take risks - matches Brady's.

Posted Apr 11, 2018

Hitler's Hollywood (2018)

Part of what's alarming about "Hitler's Hollywood" is that it's easier to be seduced by these comedies and melodramas, at least in excerpts, than it is to endure Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" today.

Posted Apr 10, 2018

Beirut (2018)

The absence of Arab voices beyond those of the terrorists further flattens a movie that never fully takes satisfying shape.

Posted Apr 10, 2018

Paterno (2018)

Mike Hale

Mr. Levinson lays this out with considerable skill and energy.

Posted Apr 9, 2018

Blockers (2018)

It's passably diverting.

Posted Apr 5, 2018

Lean on Pete (2018)

A very fine movie that I haven't stopped thinking about since I saw it, partly because stories about forgotten and mistreated children tend to be reserved for documentaries and foreign-language art cinema.

Posted Apr 5, 2018

Good Luck (2017)

Mr. Russell films the morning mist with a Monet-like abstraction and executes remarkable Steadicam shots through the mud. He might be accused of making poverty poetry - except that both sites' unlikely beauty, too, may be a connecting thread.

Posted Apr 5, 2018

Spinning Man (2018)

Jennifer Szalai

Can a movie devoid of thrills be called a thriller?

Posted Apr 5, 2018

The Heart of Nuba (2018)

The film is worth seeing because it's a moving and remarkable story and it represents a great cause.

Posted Apr 5, 2018

Big Fish & Begonia (2018)

Teo Bugbee

Never short on visual or emotional wonder, "Big Fish & Begonia" contemplates mortality with the imagination of an old soul who has been given new eyes.

Posted Apr 5, 2018

The Endless (2018)

This idea may at first seem both dumb and highly implausible, but viewers eager to poke holes in the scenario should give it time. "The Endless" rewards patience with mind-bending twists and turns.

Posted Apr 5, 2018

Acorn and the Firestorm (2018)

The movie, directed by Reuben Atlas and Sam Pollard, makes the point that before any of the negative publicity, Acorn was an important voice for lower-income Americans.

Posted Apr 5, 2018

Sweet Country (2018)

Around this spare story...director Warwick Thornton constructs a searing indictment of frontier racism as remarkable for its sonic restraint as its visual expansiveness.

Posted Apr 5, 2018

Where Is Kyra? (2018)

As a statement about the economic insecurity inherent in American capitalism, "Where Is Kyra?" has grim power.

Posted Apr 5, 2018

The Miracle Season (2018)

From lighting to music cues, "The Miracle Season" never misses a chance to lunge for your tear ducts, treating its characters less as flesh-and-blood humans than as props for delivering bromides.

Posted Apr 5, 2018

A Quiet Place (2018)

In its convincing portrayal of a situation where a rusty nail is as lethal as an unexploded bomb, and the few remaining inhabitants seem - much like the audience - more likely to die of stress than anything else, the movie rocks.

Posted Apr 4, 2018

Chappaquiddick (2018)

Whether or not events actually unfolded this way, the story the film tells is an interesting and complicated character study, with something to say about the corrosive effects of power and privilege on both the innocent and the guilty.

Posted Apr 4, 2018

You Were Never Really Here (2018)

The gravity and force of Mr. Phoenix's performance and Ms. Ramsay's direction are impressive, but it's hard not to feel that their talents have been misapplied, and that there is less to the movie than meets the eye.

Posted Apr 4, 2018

All the Cities of the North (Svi severni gradovi) (2016)

It can be tough to say whether the movie is productively or arbitrarily baffling, but it is never boring, and it achieves a balance between natural flow and purposefulness that suits its subject matter.

Posted Apr 3, 2018

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018)

Noel Murray

But from the multicultural cast to its deconstruction of religious iconography, this Jesus Christ Superstar was as thoughtful and challenging as the show has ever been.

Posted Apr 2, 2018

Tyler Perry's Acrimony (2018)

In addition to endorsing the logic that keeps spouses Stockholm syndrome'd in bad marriages, "Acrimony" also offers poor economic advice.

Posted Mar 30, 2018

Gemini (2018)

A pleasurably drifty, low-wattage mystery ...

Posted Mar 29, 2018

Wilde Salomé (2013)

"Wilde Salomé" is most fascinating as a portrait of a superstar actor who, for all his wealth and privilege, encounters unusual frustrations as he pursues genuine artistic ambitions.

Posted Mar 29, 2018

Personal Problems (2018)