NYT Critics’ Pick Movies

Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back.
LOVING

By MANOHLA DARGIS
NYT Critics’ Pick
Director Jeff Nichols
Writer Jeff Nichols
Stars Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton
Rating PG-13
Running Time 2h 3m
Genres Biography, Drama

Review: Tending the Tempest Within in ‘Peter and the Farm’
PETER AND THE FARM

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
NYT Critics’ Pick
Director Tony Stone
Star Peter Dunning
Rating Not Rated
Running Time 1h 31m
Genre Documentary

Review: ‘We Are X’ Explores the Travails and Triumphs of a Rock Band
WE ARE X
By ANDY WEBSTER
NYT Critics’ Pick
Director Stephen Kijak
Stars Yoshiki, Toshi, Pata, Hiroshi Morie, Sugizo
Rating R
Running Time 1h 33m
Genres Documentary, Music

Review: ‘The Prison in Twelve Landscapes’ Reveals the Invisible Tentacles of Mass Incarceration
THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES

By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
NYT Critics’ Pick
Director Brett Story
Writer Brett Story
Running Time 1h 30m
Genre Documentary

Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Far-Out Mystical Magic Tour
DOCTOR STRANGE

By MANOHLA DARGIS
NYT Critics’ Pick
Director Scott Derrickson
Writers Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, Steve Ditko
Stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Mads Mikkelsen
Rating PG-13
Running Time 1h 55m
Genres Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Review: ‘Don’t Call Me Son’ Considers Identity and Fluidity
DON’T CALL ME SON

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
NYT Critics’ Pick
Director Anna Muylaert
Writer Anna Muylaert
Stars Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Daniela Nefussi, Matheus Nachtergaele, Lais Dias
Running Time 1h 22m
Genre Drama

Review: In ‘The Eagle Huntress,’ a Girl From Mongolia Soars
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS

By A. O. SCOTT
NYT Critics’ Pick
Director Otto Bell
Stars Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Daisy Ridley
Rating G
Running Time 1h 27m
Genres Documentary, Adventure, Family, Sport

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When It Comes to Voting, Minnesota Makes It Easy

When It Comes to Voting, Minnesota Makes It Easy

Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are waging an all-out effort to get supporters to the polls in swing states like North Carolina and Nevada. But there is one place where voters seem to need no encouragement: Minnesota.

For the last nine presidential elections the state has been No. 1 in voter turnout, according to statistics compiled by Michael McDonald, a political scientist at the University of Florida. In the last three elections, Minnesota was the only state in which more than 76 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.