Guy Lodge

Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Bill Nighy and James Norton, Ben Taylor's 'Joy' depicts the medical struggle to deliver the world's first in-vitro baby.

Starring Glenn Close and Anders Danielsen Lie, Charlie McDowell's film of Tove Jansson's 'The Summer Book' is high on comfort and low on incident.

A San Sebastián prizewinner, Laura Carreira's impressive debut 'On Falling' puts faces and lives to the purchases we so impersonally make online.

James McArdle stars in Darren Thornton's comedy 'Four Mothers,' a charming reinterpretation of Gianni Di Gregorio's 2008 film 'Mid-August Lunch.'

Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff star in 'A Nice Indian Boy,' Roshan Sethi's queer love story between an Indian American doctor and a white photographer.

The third outing for the well-mannered ursine hero, 'Paddington in Peru' is pleasant kids' fare, but lacks the anarchic sparkle of its predecessors.

Taking on Werner Herzog's dismissal of AI filmmaking, Piotr Winiewicz's IDFA opener 'About a Hero' is more puckish than genuinely provocative.

Auberi Edler's 'An American Pastoral' patiently and perceptively tracks a year-long electoral campaign in a conservative Pennsylvania town.

Eloïse King's 'The Shadow Scholars' shines a light on the young Kenyans supplying privileged college students with essays to pass off as their own.

In her extraordinary debut feature 'A Want in Her,' Myrid Carten fixes her camera, when possible, on her erratic, alcoholic mother Nuala.