The Street Western

The director’s new films—about Lorenz Hart and Jean-Luc Godard—form a kind of diptych, but the contrasts are as important as the similarities.

Scott Cooper’s tightly focussed bio-pic, about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s D.I.Y. album “Nebraska,” leaves out the wide-ranging passion that went into the music.

This compelling adaptation of Ibsen’s classic play, starring Tessa Thompson and moving the action to nineteen-fifties England, expands and arguably deepens the original.

When your quirky book becomes a quirkier movie.

This action drama, set in 1970 and starring Josh O’Connor, brings political conflict and existential comedy into the finely observed details of crime and escape.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, exquisitely detailed fantasy of revolution and resistance, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks to history for visions of hope.

The actress’s nuanced ambivalence.

In Kathryn Bigelow’s ensemble drama, a nuclear attack exposes more failures of screenwriting than of geopolitical-crisis management.

This year’s Revivals section spotlights a hidden classic by a major modern filmmaker whose new movie is equally great.

In “Nexus,” Puryear shows that he may be America’s greatest living sculptor, a maverick who reshapes our sense of how art should look, behave, and be made.

Despite Dwayne (the Rock) Johnson’s taut performance, Benny Safdie’s bio-pic about the mixed-martial-arts fighter Mark Kerr proves distanced and passionless.

Adoration, exploitation, and the strange afterlife of being celebrated too soon.