Reviews

Let there be light: in the radiant One Fine Morning, Mia Hansen-Løve conveys an auto-fictional tale of grief and new love with disarming and affecting sincerity

Cold hearted: Hlynur Pálmason’s latest is an astute examination of the eternal failure of colonial projects when self-absorbed outsiders are tasked with getting to know the world beyond themselves

Drink it in: James Cameron’s much-hyped, space-whale opus seeds the franchise with a militant environmentalism that sets the film apart from similar feats of entertainment engineering

Leaky ship: Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness is high on rhetorical acrobatics but lacks the humanist curiosity of his earlier films

Face to face: Martine Sym’s firecracker feature debut, in theaters now, abounds in bold text, bolder colors, and wry humor to explore the construction of Black feminine identity

Mirror mirror: Andrew Dominik’s heavily fictionalized Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde is ultimately only image, no insight

Back issues: though the new Funny Pages is set in the present day, the cartooning world it depicts is firmly that of the 1990s

Form and function: Kiro Russo’s El gran movimiento weaves together bravura camerawork and a simple story about a mysteriously ill laborer to create a pulsating portrait of La Paz, Bolivia

Little women: Céline Sciamma's Petite Maman is an elliptical, dreamlike fable about the intergenerational intimacies of women

Tangled web: with The Girl and the Spider, the Zürcher brothers craft a formalist fable of Surrealist uncanny and combustible yearning