NYT Critics' Picks anda Shyamalan

Watch Your Back, Even in the Family
‘Shadow Dancer,’ Starring Clive Owen
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Warning: Woman Wields a Scalpel
‘American Mary,’ by Jen and Sylvia Soska
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Retired in America, Reborn in Guatemala
‘Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus’
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How It Looks to Think: Watch Her
‘Hannah Arendt,’ With Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer
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Fate of the Earth Rests on a Banjo
‘The History of Future Folk’
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A scene from “The History of Future Folk,” a film directed by J. Anderson Mitchell and Jeremy Kipp Walker.
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Published: May 30, 2013

Thanks to groundbreaking work by Hollywood over the years — “Men in Black,” “Coneheads” and many more — we know that space aliens are all around us, looking and living like humans. Some of these visitors are downright charming, few more so than the two guys from the planet Hondo in “The History of Future Folk.”

A Father-Son Outing Goes Terribly Wrong
‘After Earth,’ Starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith