NYT Critic’s Pick Movie(s)

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The Last Autumn
NYT Critic’s Pick | Directed by Yrsa Roca Fannberg
This observational documentary about an aging farming couple on the Icelandic coast unfolds like an elegy to a life lived off the land.


“The Last Autumn,” from the director Yrsa Roca Fannberg, follows a couple on the Icelandic coast as they prepare for the annual autumnal ritual of herding their sheep down the mountain
By DEVIKA GIRISH

After Love
NYT Critic’s Pick | Drama | Directed by Aleem Khan
In this intelligent melodrama by the director Aleem Khan, a British woman discovers her husband has been leading a double life.


Joanna Scanlan in “After Love.”
By BEATRICE LOAYZA

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In from the Side
Unrated | Drama, Sport | Directed by Matt Carter
In Matt Carter’s gay rugby film, sports and romance smash together like two players from opposing teams.
By KYLE TURNER

New Gods: Yang Jian
Animation, Action, Fantasy | Directed by Ji Zhao
In this animated fantasy, a former deity must confront his traumatic past if he hopes to find absolution and save the world.
By ROBERT DANIELS

When You Finish Saving the World
R | Comedy, Drama | Directed by Jesse Eisenberg
Julianne Moore plays a parent to a son (Finn Wolfhard) with whom she fails to see eye-to-eye in this comedy directed by Jesse Eisenberg.
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

All Eyes Off Me
Unrated | Comedy, Drama | Directed by Hadas Ben Aroya
A series of sexual and social situations unspool in this portrait of Israeli youth culture.
By NATALIA WINKELMAN