NYT Critic’s Pick Movie(s)

Candyman
NYT Critic’s Pick | R | Horror, Thriller | Directed by Nia DaCosta
The new take on the 1990s cult horror film returns the story to its old stomping ground, this time with Jordan Peele as a producer.


Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in Nia DaCosta’s “Candyman.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Mosquito State
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama, Horror, Thriller | Directed by Filip Jan Rymsza
A Wall Street genius becomes the willing host to a colony of mosquitoes in this dreamily surreal horror movie.


Beau Knapp in “Mosquito State.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Isabella
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama | Directed by Matías Piñeiro
The Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro, who riffs on Shakespeare, expands his ambition with this drama.


Agustina Muñoz and María Villar in “Isabella.”
By BEN KENIGSBERG

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The Colony
R | Sci-Fi, Thriller | Directed by Tim Fehlbaum
In this science fiction film, set generations after humans have destroyed Earth, an astronaut returns to the planet to see if it is habitable.


Nora Arnezeder in “The Colony,” directed by Tim Fehlbaum.
By LENA WILSON

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