Reviews

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

Beast mode: Robert Eggers's latest, blood-spattered epic runs a grand Viking myth through the meat grinder of earthly existence

Motor away: Barney Platts-Mills’s newly restored gem is a tale of a teen struggling in a blighted urban landscape that is also a vivid document of the less-than-swinging side of late-’60s London

Up in smoke: Justin Kurzel’s drama about the man behind a real-life mass shooting is restrained to a fault

Urban decay: Despite Matt Reeves’s tip-top casting and his usual virtuosity, the latest Caped Crusader reboot fails to reimagine this by-now commonplace material

Bark vs. bite: In typical fashion, Dominik Graf’s latest resonates as both a fully fleshed-out melodrama and a grand portrait of Weimar-era Germany

Dangerous minds: in the new Jackass Forever, persistence in the face of aging is a stunt in its own right

Dang me: Alan Rudolph’s 1984 country-music comedy is a rough-and-rowdy good time, punctuated by a typically unhinged performance from Rip Torn