Critic's Picks

Lily Collias delivers an extraordinary lead performance in this exquisite debut feature about a camping trip and a moment of self-realization.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Dan Stevens and Hunter Schafer face off in this unexpectedly fun and undeniably nutty horror-comedy about cross-species pollination.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

This nail-biter of a documentary imagines it is Jan. 6, 2025, and armed supporters of the losing candidate are hatching a coup and maybe a civil war. What will the nation’s leaders do?

By Manohla Dargis

Yemenat, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, offers Yemeni delights rarely found in New York City.

By Pete Wells

Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s new work about an ambitious minister’s rise in the 1980s is that rarity in contemporary music: an original story.

By Zachary Woolfe

A vibrant coming-of-age story about an awkward teenager in California in 2008 is also a love letter to the director’s mother.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Teatro Nuovo is giving Carolina Uccelli’s pioneering “Anna di Resburgo” its first performances since its premiere in 1835.

By Joshua Barone

Pam Tanowitz’s “Day for Night” flows with and against the current of its surroundings, reflecting the park’s strange mix of the natural and man-made.

By Siobhan Burke

In Levan Akin’s fascinating drama, two strangers connect in Istanbul.

By Amy Nicholson

A skillfully directed Japanese mystery dips into the strangeness of dementia for those who stand by and watch.

By Alissa Wilkinson