Movies

George Lucas wants them to fade into oblivion. But some fans spent more than a decade digitally restoring the original “Star Wars” trilogy, preserving the movies as they were shown in theaters.

The director David Leitch narrates a sequence from the film featuring Gosling and Emily Blunt.

The director David Leitch narrates a sequence from his film featuring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.

This month’s picks include a Mexican family drama, a Palestinian coming-of-age tale, a high-school movie from Ukraine and more.

This month’s picks include a nature documentary filmed in the Indian wilderness and an animated family adventure from the studio behind “Despicable Me.”

The academy is keeping mum about the prospect, but the movie is part of a renewed push for a new Academy Award first considered more than 30 years ago.

In his directorial debut, Jerry Seinfeld tackles the history of the fruit-filled pastries … kind of. Here’s the real origin story, along with a bonus quiz.

The tinted balm was inspired by products that the filmmaker confected as a girl to achieve the “berry-stained lips” of a character in a Roman Polanski movie.

The second feature by the Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze asks what a relationship looks like when you factor out the sex.

Maïwenn wrote, directed and stars in the film, playing opposite Johnny Depp, who is Louis XV. Though he declares he loves her, their chemistry is weak.

Subtitled “The Story of Anita Pallenberg,” this documentary gives the life of the actress and model a thorough downer of a treatment.

Ethan Hawke teams up with his daughter, Maya Hawke, for an unconventional and somewhat muddled portrait of a singular author.

“The Idea of You,” “Scrublands,” “The Big Cigar” and “Hacks” are streaming.

The filmmaker has made it clear that “Civil War” is a warning. Instead, the ugliness of war comes across as comforting thrills.

Shoshana Bean, Eden Espinosa and Lindsay Mendez received nominations for their roles in “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Lempicka” and “Merrily We Roll Along,” respectively.

This was the first nomination for Radcliffe, who has had five roles on Broadway since 2008.

Magic Mike’s finale, M. Night Shyamalan’s patient with 23 personalities, Baz Luhrmann’s “Gatsby” and a copstravaganza with a serious coda after the belly laughs.

Among the free streaming services, few are as enjoyable and reliable as this one.

This month’s streaming selections include one director’s look at a hometown ritual, the story of an improbable ruse and a celebration of student activism.

Beyoncé’s 12-year-old daughter will make her feature film debut as Kiara, Nala and Simba’s daughter, in a prequel to the 2019 hit.

Steve Carell, William Jackson Harper, Alison Pill and Anika Noni Rose discuss the new translation of Chekhov that brought them to the farm.

Painstaking effort went into building the energetic competition moments in Luca Guadagnino’s love-triangle tennis drama. Here’s a closer look at the process.

Studios obsessively focused on PG-13 franchises and animation in recent years, but movies like “Challengers” and “Saltburn” show eroticism has returned.

On the debut of ‘The Interview,' the actress talks to David Marchese about learning to let go of other people’s opinions.

This month’s picks include demonic forces from Mexico, Mongolia, small-town America and hell itself.

The director Luca Guadagnino narrates a tense scene between the two characters.

The director Luca Guadagnino narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist.

A documentary celebrates the work of the revered photographer James Hamilton.

Female-centered buddy comedies, rom-coms and Outback thrillers are among the under-the-radar recommendations for your subscription streamers this month.

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play friends, lovers and foes on and off the tennis court in Luca Guadagnino’s latest.

Read the ruling from New York’s top court that overturned the 2020 conviction of Harvey Weinstein on felony sex crime charges in Manhattan, with context and explanation by New York Times journalists.

This understated tear-jerker sees a dying single father making future family plans for his toddler son.

An apartment building in Paris is overrun by murderous arachnids and unsubtle allegory in this fleet and efficient debut feature.

In fact, there’s a lot of singing in the clan whose members inspired this movie and who have racked up five Grammy Awards for their Christian recordings.

Ordinary Iranians face a maze of byzantine rules and small indignities in this series of gripping vignettes.

Caitlin Cronenberg’s debut feature is set in a dystopian world that’s alarmingly believable.

In the sex comedy “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” Joanna Arnow keeps her scenes short and her expressions flat.

Beefed up and bloodied, Bill Skarsgard goes mano a mano against disposable hordes in this dystopian action flick.

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, who play three entangled tennis pros, and their director, Luca Guadagnino, talk about ambition, jealousy and the “erotic amusement” of their new movie.

Sleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it’s Chekhov with everything, except the main thing.

Video of a collision during the filming of “The Pickup” shows an armored truck and an S.U.V. veering off a road before the truck flips onto the smaller vehicle.

As the actress receives a life achievement award from the American Film Institute this week, five filmmakers discuss what makes her work so singular.

Here are their takeaways after the film, debuting on Netflix, went from box office miss to runaway hit.

Try this short quiz to test your knowledge of books and their memorable movie adaptations.

Her films centered on Latin American experiences and received wide acclaim.

Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical.

For 12 years, the MTV reality series “Catfish” has traveled the U.S., presenting hundreds of intimate snapshots of what can go wrong when the heart mixes with technology.

“Every time I’m in the city, I make a visit,” said the actor, who is performing on Broadway in “Uncle Vanya.”

The famed “Amityville Horror” film has spawned at least 45 sequels. A look at why the Amityville name has endured in the horror genre.

This month’s picks include competing assassins, a mysterious hitchhiker, a stoic bricklayer and more.

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about even if you’re not planning to see them.

A retrospective of the director’s work at Film Forum shows how his movies have kept a focus on working-class solidarity.

In “Little Empty Boxes” and other films, the heartbreak of memory loss is intertwined with deeper cultural implications.

A delirious, pulpy mishmash of knockoffs, Zack Snyder’s film isn’t good, but it sure is something.

Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing.

The writer-director Theda Hammel’s biting, delirious quarantine comedy skewers white gay men in a world where fact, fiction and authentic experiences collide.

This drug-run thriller, starring Scoot McNairy, traffics in grim ponderousness.

Minhal Baig’s third feature follows two boys living in a public housing complex in Chicago as they cope by building their own dream worlds.

In this ultimately sentimental drama, a lonely fashion magazine editor in Tokyo meets a personal trainer with a secret.

In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there be gore? You bet.

Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original formula.

Organizers released the event lineup for the annual New York event, set for June. It includes films that trace the lives of Linda Perry and Avicii.

He explains why Lady Jessica’s face is so heavily tattooed, whether Paul considers himself the Messiah and what he thinks of those Javier Bardem memes.

The company had critical and commercial hits over two decades but never made money consistently and faced a challenging entertainment landscape.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s unloved — or misinterpreted? — 1970 documentary, the source for Peter Jackson’s “Get Back,” will stream on Disney+.

Restored to its original length and screening at the Museum of Modern Art, this 1933 movie starring Spencer Tracy feels at once surprisingly frank and disquietingly coy.

The action thriller from Alex Garland concludes with an explosive sequence in the nation’s capital. A behind-the-scenes look at how it was done.

In this tense thriller on Hulu, Maika Monroe plays Clare, a Kansas transplant in Los Angeles who parallels Dorothy in Oz.

Alex Garland’s movie, starring Kirsten Dunst, surpassed “Godzilla x Kong,” with an estimated $25.7 million in North American ticket sales on its first weekend.

The Duke of Sussex competed in a match in South Florida the day after the announcement that he will be working on a new polo-related Netflix project.

“Love Lies Bleeding,” “Bottoms” and “Drive-Away Dolls” are leading a wave of stories about lesbians living their lives, committing crimes along the way.

Dan Lin, the streaming service’s new film chief, wants to produce a more varied slate of movies to better appeal to the array of interests among subscribers.

Machine-learning technologies are being used in film restoration for new home video releases. But some viewers strongly dislike the results.

She made documentaries of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” and her daughter Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides” and recalled their lives in books.

Norm Macdonald and Jay Leno made the double homicides such a constant topic that refraining from jokes the way David Letterman did was noticeable.

The French star is the subject of a series at Film Forum focusing on movies from the ’60s and ’70s, when he became an international sensation.

In this month’s sci-fi picks, cruise through dreams, hook a right at multiverses, turn left at portals, then put it in reverse for some time travel.

Alex Garland, the film’s writer and director, narrates a sequence from his movie.

The writer and director Alex Garland narrates a sequence from his film.