NYT Critic’s Pick Movie(s)

Pieces of a Woman
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Drama | Directed by Kornél Mundruczó
Vanessa Kirby gives an intensely physical performance as a woman whose life and marriage are upended by the death of a child.


Vanessa Kirby in “Pieces of a Woman.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Soul
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music | Directed by Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
This inventive tale stars Jamie Foxx as a jazz musician caught in a world that human souls pass through on their way into and out of life.


Jamie Foxx voices the character Joe Gardner, right, in “Soul.”
By A.O. SCOTT

Dear Comrades
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama, History | Directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy
With a bureaucrat as the central character, the film at times takes on a bleakly comic tone as it fills in the circumstances surrounding a massacre.


A scene from “Dear Comrades!”
By BEN KENIGSBERG

Sylvie's Love
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG-13 | Drama, Music, Romance | Directed by Eugene Ashe
Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha star in a swoony love story that wonderfully rethinks the classic Hollywood melodrama.


Lights, camera, romance: Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha in “Sylvie’s Love.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

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‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Review: It’s Not About What We Deserve
PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Directed by Patty Jenkins
The sequel to the 2017 hit finds Diana Prince, a.k.a. Wonder Woman, pining for love and saddled with a movie unworthy of her.


Truck mayhem: Gal Gadot in Patty Jenkins’s “Wonder Woman 1984.”
By Manohla Dargis