Movies

All the cliches of superhero movies are stripped away, with fantastic results, in this indie-scale drama.

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The actress plays a 17-year-old from the Isle of Wight who dreams of pop-music stardom.

“Girls of the Sun” means well but is held back by uneven execution.

The actress is riveting, even if Alex Ross Perry’s film is not.

Recounting an actual near-drowning incident in 2015, this Christian drama peddles miracles and is genuinely moving (at times).

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Marsai Martin from “Blackish” plays the teenage version of Regina Hall’s tech entrepreneur.

This stop-motion animated movie is a little too ambitious for its own good.

The 2019 version has a new director and an R rating but falls surprisingly flat.

The film, in limbo for 50 years, can finally be seen in all its aesthetic, spiritual and historical glory.

Samuel “Blitz” Bazawule’s film tells a touching story of the love between a father and his daughter.

French director Claire Denis’s first English-language film falls short of her earlier work.

The historical drama unfurls like a grandiose pageant, weighed down by long speeches.

This drama, set in the 1920s and fictionalizing Louise Brooks’s teen years, means well but is heavy-handed.