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The Strangers: Chapter 2
R
Horror, Mystery
Directed by Renny Harlin
This second installment in Renny Harlin’s slasher trilogy is hackneyed and silly.
By Jeannette Catsoulis
Sept. 30, 2025
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Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
Not Rated
Documentary, Biography, History, Music
Directed by Ally Pankiw
The tour started by Sarah McLachlan is the subject of the film, which includes a who’s who of women making music in that era.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Sept. 26, 2025
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Ruth & Boaz
Not Rated
Drama, Romance
Directed by Alanna Brown
The latest drama from Tyler Perry Studios sets the Book of Ruth at a vineyard in Tennessee.
By Lisa Kennedy
Sept. 26, 2025
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One Battle After Another
NYT Critic’s Pick
R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
The director, at the height of his powers, delivers a startling, present-day American epic, with Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up radical and doting dad.
By Manohla Dargis
Sept. 25, 2025
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Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie
G
Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Directed by Ryan Crego
This movie based on an interactive children’s Netflix series is not suitable for anyone over reading age.
By Natalia Winkelman
Sept. 25, 2025
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French Lover
Not Rated
Comedy, Romance
Directed by Lisa-Nina Rives
A movie star and a waitress meet cute in a Netflix “Notting Hill” knockoff starring Omar Sy.
By Ben Kenigsberg
Sept. 25, 2025
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Dead of Winter
R
Action, Thriller
Directed by Brian Kirk
This stone-cold wilderness thriller pits a woman on a mission against a merciless couple who are keeping a secret in their basement.
By Glenn Kenny
Sept. 25, 2025
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Eleanor the Great
PG-13
Drama, War
Directed by Scarlett Johansson
June Squibb stars in Scarlett Johansson’s sometimes moving but often uneven directorial debut.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Sept. 25, 2025
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All of You
NYT Critic’s Pick
R
Drama
Directed by William Bridges
This weepy romance succeeds through the undeniable chemistry between Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots.
By Brandon Yu
Sept. 25, 2025
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Megadoc
NYT Critic’s Pick
Not Rated
Documentary
Directed by Mike Figgis
This documentary by Mike Figgis about Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is at once expansive and intimate, and sometimes very revealing.
By Manohla Dargis
Sept. 18, 2025
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The Lost Bus
R
Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Paul Greengrass
The actor stars alongside America Ferrera in a high-tension drama from the director Paul Greengrass that revisits the deadly 2018 Camp Fire.
By Manohla Dargis
Sept. 18, 2025
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie - Infinity Castle
R
Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki, Hikaru Kondô
The anime movie, subtitled “Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle,” contains layers of lore and impressionistic backdrops.
By Natalia Winkelman
Sept. 18, 2025
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Swiped
Not Rated
Biography, Drama, History
Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg
A drama about the rise and fall and rise again of a founder of Tinder and Bumble suffers from some flimsiness.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Sept. 18, 2025
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The Summer Book
Not Rated
Drama
Directed by Charlie McDowell
Set in Finland, this film explores a season of grief and growth for a girl, her father and her grandmother.
By Lisa Kennedy
Sept. 18, 2025
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The Senior
PG
Drama, Sport
Directed by Rod Lurie
Based on a true story, this blandly inspirational tale follows a 59-year old man from Texas who rejoins his college football squad.
By Brandon Yu
Sept. 18, 2025
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Speak.
Not Rated
Documentary
Directed by Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman
The art of persuasion — and the painstaking preparation for a national competition — is the focus of this moving documentary about high-school students.
By Glenn Kenny
Sept. 18, 2025
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Predators
NYT Critic’s Pick
Not Rated
Documentary, Crime, Thriller
Directed by David Osit
This probing, troubling documentary looks at the sociological implications of the series “To Catch a Predator.”
By Ben Kenigsberg
Sept. 18, 2025
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Plainclothes
Not Rated
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by Carmen Emmi
Lucas (Tom Blyth) has just had sex with Andrew (Russell Tovey), the man he was supposed to arrest in a sting operation.
By Chris Azzopardi
Sept. 18, 2025
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Peacock
Not Rated
Comedy, Drama
Directed by Bernhard Wenger
The dark comedy follows a man who suffers an identity crisis after his work at a companion-for-hire agency extinguishes his own personality.
By Natalia Winkelman
Sept. 18, 2025
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In Whose Name?
R
Documentary
Directed by Nico Ballesteros
Six years in the making, this new documentary traces Ye’s life of fame and fall from grace.
By Nicolas Rapold
Sept. 18, 2025
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Him
R
Horror, Sport
Directed by Justin Tipping
In this thriller, a young quarterback is invited to train with a veteran player (Marlon Wayans) in his Texas compound. What could go wrong?
By Beatrice Loayza
Sept. 18, 2025
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
R
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by Kogonada
This fantastical odyssey, starring Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, relies on the tart charm of Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
By Brandon Yu
Sept. 18, 2025
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Lost in the Jungle
Not Rated
Documentary
Directed by Jimmy Chin, Juan Camilo Cruz, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
The movie peels back the layers of a headline story to find a complex tale, centuries in the making.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Sept. 12, 2025
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The Wrong Paris
Not Rated
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Janeen Damian
Paris, Texas, may not be the preferred locale for the art student Miranda Cosgrove, but she finds that it might bring her the right man.
By Glenn Kenny
Sept. 12, 2025
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
R
Comedy, Music
Directed by Rob Reiner
Four decades after their big-screen hit, the rock legends David, Derek and Nigel have reunited for one final (really, truly) concert.
By Manohla Dargis
Sept. 11, 2025
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Rabbit Trap
Not Rated
Horror, Mystery
Directed by Bryn Chainey
This horror feature envelops us with its technical atmospherics, but don’t dig too far beneath that surface.
By Brandon Yu
Sept. 11, 2025
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The Man in My Basement
R
Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Nadia Latif
Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe star in an overstuffed drama about a man haunted by the weight of history.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Sept. 11, 2025
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The History of Sound
R
Drama, History, Music, Romance
Directed by Oliver Hermanus
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor play lovers who embark on a folk song-recording mission in this demure New England drama.
By Natalia Winkelman
Sept. 11, 2025
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The Long Walk
R
Thriller
Directed by Francis Lawrence
For a movie about motion, this Stephen King adaptation feels oddly static.
By Jeannette Catsoulis
Sept. 11, 2025
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Dreams
NYT Critic’s Pick
Not Rated
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Dag Johan Haugerud
The film is the final installment in Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy about the sexual and romantic mores of Oslo’s inhabitants.
By Beatrice Loayza
Sept. 11, 2025
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