A.O. Scott

How an ancient Greek myth explains our terrifying modern reality.

Todd Haynes’s documentary paints a jagged, revelatory portrait of the New York avant-garde scene of the 1960s.

Walter Hill’s lean, mean shoot-’em-up is a master class in B-movie craft.

Nadav Lapid’s new film, about a brooding director much like himself, is a howl of rage at the state of Israeli society.

The real-life boxer Kali Reis plays a pugilist in search of revenge.

A 1964 meeting of Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown is the subject of Regina King’s riveting directorial debut.

Liz Garbus’s new documentary is about the life of the French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the fate of the oceans he loved.

Memory and storytelling are intriguingly intertwined in work by world-class filmmakers that confounds and intrigues.

Though his novels and short stories — published over six decades, beginning in 1934 — are set in an older, more decorous America, he grapples with themes that feel shockingly contemporary.

Don Cheadle and Benicio Del Toro star in Steven Soderbergh’s new film, a Detroit-set period thriller with a lot on its mind.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical comes to the screen as an exuberant and heartfelt party, directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Anthony Ramos.

This inventive tale stars Jamie Foxx as a jazz musician caught in a world that human souls pass through on their way into and out of life.

Lee Daniels’s hectic biopic portrays the singer as a victim of abuse, addiction and government persecution.

Glenn Close and Amy Adams star in Ron Howard’s Hollywoodized version of J.D. Vance’s best seller.

Spike Lee’s new joint is an anguished, funny, violent argument with and about American history, with an unforgettable performance from Delroy Lindo at its heart.

Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti star in a fresh and funny comedy that might remind you of something you saw before.

How the rediscovery of a Swedish abstract painter changed the course of art history.

Set in the mid-19th-century Oregon Territory, Kelly Reichardt’s latest film is a fable, a western, a buddy picture and a masterpiece.

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci star in Martin Scorsese’s monumental, elegiac tale of violence, betrayal, memory and loss.

The actor directs and stars (along with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Alec Baldwin) in a big, ambitious adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s prizewinning novel.