A.O. Scott

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How an ancient Greek myth explains our terrifying modern reality.