NYT Critic’s Pick Movie(s)

Son of the White Mare
NYT Critic’s Pick | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | Directed by Marcell Jankovics


The film nods to earlier notables of animation: the hallucinatory palette of “Yellow Submarine” and the rich visual storytelling of “Fantasia.”
By MAYA PHILLIPS

Cut Throat City
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Directed by RZA


With his third feature as | Director, RZA, who first rose to fame with Wu-Tang Clan, comes into his own as a filmmaker.
By GLENN KENNY


Coup 53
NYT Critic’s Pick | Documentary, History | Directed by Taghi Amirani


Taghi Amirani’s documentary is an obsessively detailed dive into the 1953 ouster of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran.
By BEN KENIGSBERG

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Tesla
PG-13 | Biography, Drama | Directed by Michael Almereyda


Ethan Hawke plays the melancholy visionary Nikola Tesla in Michael Almereyda’s meditative anti-biopic.
By A.O. SCOTT