Film-Forward

Grandiose and distinct, the world of Dune: Part Two feels alive and big.

Kimi Takesue’s entrancingly framed image-based documentary follows swarms of tourists in Laos.

Film critics Pollyanna Positive and Negative Nancy took in Belgian director Bas Devos’s Here and came away with very different views of the movie.

A buoyant parable that manages to portray messy, complicated matters like democracy in a deft, light-to-the-touch, yet complex manner.

The work of an artist with nothing to prove, with a hand at the wheel so sure you don’t even notice it.

Argylle certainly has personality (and cats).

At first, the film conjures Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers as it revels in the shallow inanity of carousing drunk teens. But wait for its second half.

A cinematic soap opera of the highest order.

A sometimes-chaotic family drama that takes the measure of facing terminal illness little by little, scene by scene.