Country idylls gone awry in the dispiriting “28 Years Later” and the invigoratingly bleak “Vulcanizadora.”
“Misericordia” and “The Ballad of Wallis Island” are greatly different entertainments set in pastoral paradises, and both well worthwhile.
“The Phoenician Scheme” is another triumph for Wes Anderson, while Alex Ross Perry mines Gen X longing in “Pavements.”
“Bring Her Back” is beautifully pitiless, while “Tornado” is just beautiful.
Departed homes amid fragile social norms in “Restless” and “Kim’s Video.”
Male vulnerability in two worthwhile thrillers, “Sharp Corner” and “Neighborhood Watch.”
Killers, clowns, and killer clowns in “Henry Johnson” and “Clown in a Cornfield.”
“The Surfer” and “Bonjour Tristesse” give the approaching cinema summer a neurotic jolt.
Science fiction up close and kinky with David Cronenberg's “The Shrouds,” and fascism for kids with the re-released “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.”
Michael B. Jordan plays twin hustlers in “Sinners,” an extraordinary musical horror fable.