Richard Brody

This action drama, set in 1970 and starring Josh O’Connor, brings political conflict and existential comedy into the finely observed details of crime and escape.

The director’s new films—about Lorenz Hart and Jean-Luc Godard—form a kind of diptych, but the contrasts are as important as the similarities.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, exquisitely detailed fantasy of revolution and resistance, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks to history for visions of hope.

This year’s Revivals section spotlights a hidden classic by a major modern filmmaker whose new movie is equally great.

Despite Dwayne (the Rock) Johnson’s taut performance, Benny Safdie’s bio-pic about the mixed-martial-arts fighter Mark Kerr proves distanced and passionless.

Also: Kelefa Sanneh’s latest obsessions, the supernatural fantasy of “Weather Girl,” a Franz Liszt piano competition, and more.

This year’s edition teems with artistically ambitious movies that confront politics and mores in a wide variety of formats, from historical spectacles to intimate confessions.

William Greaves’s great historical documentary, centered on a 1972 reunion of Harlem Renaissance luminaries, is still awaiting completion.

Kogonada’s new fantasy film, starring Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, suggests that a great directorial talent is losing his way.

Mike Figgis’s documentary reveals the risky freedom of Coppola’s approach to his self-financed political fantasy.