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‘MaXXXine’ Review: Fame Monster
Mia Goth returns to Ti West’s horrorverse as an actress fleeing a mysterious stalker and a traumatic past.
By Jeannette Catsoulis
Mia Goth returns to Ti West’s horrorverse as an actress fleeing a mysterious stalker and a traumatic past.
By Jeannette Catsoulis
Spice Brothers is a showcase for the power of cinnamon, turmeric and other flavors of the Middle East.
By Pete Wells
His second album, “God Said No,” delves into a breakup with all its complications, transformed into pensive alt-R&B.
By Jon Pareles
Few directors get as deeply under the skin as Catherine Breillat, a longtime provocateur who tests the limits of what the world thinks women should do and say and be.
By Manohla Dargis
Elevator Repair Service’s staged reading of the huge James Joyce novel retains much of its humor, pathos and bawdiness.
By Jesse Green
Resetting the “Memory” musical in the world of ballroom competitions makes for a joyful reincarnation.
By Jesse Green
Agnieszka Holland focuses on the Polish-Belarusian border as a Syrian family tries to make it to the European Union.
By Manohla Dargis
The young directors Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía (Beba) Contreras stargaze, watch fireworks and discuss their lives in this documentary filmed in Laredo, Texas.
By Ben Kenigsberg
Yorgos Lanthimos returns with a twisted fable triptych about dominating and being dominated.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story for both a misfit tween and her mother.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy star in a romanticized drama about a fictional motorcycle club in the 1960s.
By Manohla Dargis
Marin Ireland’s play opens with Tatiana Maslany in a rotating cast of stars, and “What Became of Us” continues its own experiment with changing casts.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
A new tier of knights, monsters and freaks often exceeds the most demanding late-game adversaries of Elden Ring. Belief in yourself will be stretched to its limit.
By Yussef Cole
A new Netflix documentary showcases comedy as a source of queer liberation, featuring Margaret Cho, Tig Notaro, Joel Kim Booster and more.
By Chris Azzopardi
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A somber yet witty play set in 18th-century England is a clever perversion of a courtroom drama that features strong performances from an ensemble cast.
By Maya Phillips
A triumph of sensitivity, Noah Schamus’s debut feature tracks a rural reunion between old friends struggling to recover their bond.
By Natalia Winkelman
Myth and the changes of puberty combine in Amanda Nell Eu’s fierce, funny debut feature.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Maury Yeston’s score, stupendously played and sung, is the star of the final production of an excellent Encores! season at New York City Center.
By Jesse Green
Anxiety meets Joy in Pixar’s eager, predictably charming sequel to its innovative 2015 hit. Sadness is still around, too, as are Fear and Disgust.
By Manohla Dargis
Almost everything on the menu at this sibling of Claud contains seafood. You sit at a counter to eat it. The only surprise is how well it all works together.
By Pete Wells
At the Park Avenue Armory, a five-hour selection of pieces from the 29-hour “Licht” cycle is best appreciated as a marathon performance.
By Zachary Woolfe
The film, which stars Rachel Sennott as a stand-up comedian, looks at the aftereffects of trauma on a character who wields quips as both weapon and shield.
By Amy Nicholson
The first survey of Auriea Harvey, an influential Net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today.
By Travis Diehl
Julia Louis-Dreyfus journeys from denial to acceptance in this imaginative fantasy-drama about grief and motherhood.
By Jeannette Catsoulis
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The choreographer’s “Navy Blue” is the rare work to express the emotions of life in pandemic lockdown.
By Brian Seibert
In their latest buddy cop movie, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are still speeding through Miami. The franchise has rarely felt so assured, relaxed and knowingly funny.
By Robert Daniels
Mortensen gives his film a nested, at times unnecessarily complicated structure, but with performances this good, it’s hard to mind much.
By Ben Kenigsberg
Jessica Lange is ideally cast as a grande dame of the theater who is facing a reckoning in this well-crafted melodrama by Michael Cristofer.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
Chris Nash’s ultraviolent horror movie is an unexpectedly serene, almost dreamlike meditation on a murderous psyche.
By Jeannette Catsoulis
This animated film from Pablo Berger is a silent wonder that says everything about love.
By Amy Nicholson
A zombie movie is wrapped in a gentle tale of mourning and love.
By Alissa Wilkinson
An illuminating documentary about the ill-fated (though now-revived) subscription service finds an unexpected story.
By Alissa Wilkinson
During a 19-song set at MetLife Stadium that spanned 60 years, the band tapped into what seems like a bottomless well of rock ’n’ roll energy.
By Lindsay Zoladz
Raja Feather Kelly makes his playwriting debut with a spellbinding story of three generations of Black men at Soho Rep.
By Brittani Samuel
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Glen Powell stars in one of the year’s funniest, sexiest, most enjoyable movies — and somehow it’s surprisingly deep, too.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Lauren Patten and Taylor Iman Jones star in an achingly romantic, softly sexy new musical by Rachel Bonds and Zoe Sarnak.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
While poking fun at her own agreeable malleability, Benanti flexes her talents in a show that will be available on Audible, without the physical dimension.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
“Hit Me Hard and Soft,” her third album, is both concise and far-reaching.
By Jon Pareles
Strauss had seemingly impossible standards for a soprano in “Salome.” But Davidsen, making her role debut in Paris, is exactly what he intended.
By Oussama Zahr
With “Lives Outgrown,” her first album of her own songs in 22 years, the pensive voice of the trip-hop group confronts maturity and mortality.
By Jon Pareles
The Korean director Hong Sang-soo winds together the slenderest strands of two intersecting stories to make a tender film about simple pleasures.
By Brandon Yu
A gallery shows works with roots in performance art, and a film that documents their creation.
By Deborah Solomon
Her signboards predated by a decade the news “crawl.” At the Guggenheim she is still bending the curve: Just read the art, is the message.
By Nancy Princenthal
The fifth installment of George Miller’s series delivers an origin story of Furiosa, the hard-bitten driver played here by Anya Taylor-Joy.
By Manohla Dargis
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Robert Ashley’s 1994 opera “Foreign Experiences,” a portrait of a paranoid mind in free fall, is part of a wave of revivals following his death.
By Joshua Barone
After playing Billie Holiday onscreen, the singer brings jazz virtuosity to songs of her own.
By Jon Pareles
Sex, death and domination fuel this beautifully enigmatic pastoral drama from France, which presents the gay coming-of-age of an apprentice gardener.
By Beatrice Loayza
This semi-fictional tale of a road trip for weirdos is full of joy.
By Alissa Wilkinson
The latest installment in an excellent series finds mythology turning into power.
By Alissa Wilkinson
The English singer and songwriter’s third album, featuring production from Danny L Harle and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, is nonstop ear candy.
By Jon Pareles
Starring Jerry Seinfeld in his feature directing debut, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is the only corporate saga whose main ingredient is high-fructose sarcasm.
By Amy Nicholson
Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows up his sublime drama “Drive My Car” with a parable about a rural Japanese village and the resort developer eyeing its land.
By Manohla Dargis
Esa-Pekka Salonen is known for unusual, ambitious projects. But at the New York Philharmonic this week, he succeeded with standard repertory works.
By Zachary Woolfe
An outstanding not-quite-horror film about being a fan just before the internet took over.
By Alissa Wilkinson
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Asmik Grigorian, a star singer abroad, made her Metropolitan Opera debut by lending lyricism, complexity and spontaneity to a classic role.
By Joshua Barone
Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel’s latest family drama.
By Alexis Soloski
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play friends, lovers and foes on and off the tennis court in Luca Guadagnino’s latest.
By Manohla Dargis
This understated tear-jerker sees a dying single father making future family plans for his toddler son.
By Glenn Kenny
Ordinary Iranians face a maze of byzantine rules and small indignities in this series of gripping vignettes.
By Alissa Wilkinson
In “Searching for Goya,” at the Joyce Theater, the troupe uses the painter’s images as frames for flamenco dances.
By Brian Seibert
The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop.
By Oussama Zahr
Amy Herzog’s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.
By Jesse Green
At St. Ann’s Warehouse, this documentary play about a London fire is blood-boiling and aggrieved.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
The retooled jukebox musical, with its top-notch performances and exciting choreography, “stands out as one of the rare must-sees” in a crowded season.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
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In David Adjmi’s new play, with songs by Will Butler, a ’70s band’s success breeds tension, and punches up the volume on Broadway.
By Naveen Kumar
The Danish String Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall with its Doppelgänger project, pairing Schubert’s String Quintet and a premiere by Adès.
By Joshua Barone
The musical traces the story of Black twin sisters who pass as white, and exact their own form of justice for the crime of slavery, in 19th-century Texas.
By Naveen Kumar
The 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks’s hilarious and harrowing nesting doll of a play.
By Jesse Green
Oklahoma-style onion burgers are the rage this year. At George Motz’s new SoHo restaurant, they reach their drippy peak.
By Pete Wells
In a program of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, a guest conductor coaxes a sumptuous sincerity from the orchestra’s musicians.
By Oussama Zahr
The company performed its first New York City Center season under the direction of Robert Garland in a program including George Balanchine’s “Pas de Dix.”
By Gia Kourlas
Directed by Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo, the sequel about food production in the U.S. is, in some ways, a more hopeful film.
By Ben Kenigsberg
Wade Allain-Marcus has directed a rollicking update of the 1991 cult favorite.
By Amy Nicholson
Set in Pakistan, the story of a young woman and her family, hemmed in by men, shifts from realism to genre, with heart-pumping consequences.
By Alissa Wilkinson
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In Alex Garland’s tough new movie, a group of journalists led by Kirsten Dunst, as a photographer, travels a United States at war with itself.
By Manohla Dargis
The director Alexandria Bombach benefited from the musician Amy Ray’s archivist instincts in this warm, compelling new documentary.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
Karina Canellakis, a born-and-raised New Yorker, led her hometown orchestra alongside another debut, of the pianist Alice Sara Ott.
By Anastasia Tsioulcas
Ayodele Casel leads a program celebrating Roach’s centenary that also includes works by Rennie Harris as well as by Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag.
By Brian Seibert
Audience members revolting against bad art isn’t a new thing, but Quentin Dupieux puts a fresh twist on that theme in his surreal new comedy.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
Sad news forces a diverse group of friends to take unorthodox action in this volatile, affecting drama.
By Jeannette Catsoulis
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