Film-Forward

Sci-fi

The Visitor

Bruce LaBruce’s reworking of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 Teorema is sex-positive, celebratory, and feverishly explicit.

The Assessment

Alicia Vikander is a chameleon, fully inhabiting a complex, nearly impossible role.

The Empire

A half-baked and only fitfully amusing parody of Star Wars and Dune, of all things.

Mickey 17

For now-adult fans who grew up watching Robert Pattinson in “The Twilight Saga,” there may be a particular appeal here in a three-way scene with not one, but two Pattinsons.

Meanwhile on Earth

Dan Levy’s overwhelming score is the movie’s best asset. If you close your eyes, you might imagine you’re experiencing a grounded, minimalist French answer to Interstellar.

The Shrouds | NYFF 2024

David Cronenberg’s sci-fi noir has a brilliant concept at its core.

Megalopolis

Francis Ford Coppola has one eye on the past and another on the future, blending old-school Hollywood epics with bombastic 21st-century hyperrealism.

Omni Loop

Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri try to solve the mystery of time travel.

The Animal Kingdom

Contemporary France has been altered by a presumably global phenomenon in which mutants have been living among the population for some time.