Alissa Wilkinson

Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader’s meditative drama about guilt and seeking forgiveness.

Joshua Oppenheimer’s postapocalyptic musical about a wealthy family in an underground bunker is placidly disturbing.

Ben Stiller stars in a tonally bumpy comedy with genre roots in Hallmark territory.

Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful drama about the authoritarian Iranian government breaks a fourth wall, with consequences.

The film has ended, but the names of the many people who worked on it are rolling across the screen. Do you stick around?

“Night Is Not Eternal,” which follows the Cuban activist Rosa María Payá, is the rare nuanced political documentary that is likely to challenge every viewer’s perspective.

This film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play falters in some specifics, but is still vital viewing.

A daughter hunts for the mother she never knew in an extraordinary, elegiac documentary.

“The World According to Allee Willis” shines a light on a musical artist whose creative spirit wasn’t limited to one genre or even to music.

Nothing really makes sense in this homage to ’90s cable thrillers, but that’s sort of the point.