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With theaters starting to reopen, the movie business started looking up. From an English-language Almodóvar movie to a new cut of a years-old superhero movie, Vulture’s film critics celebrate the great cinema hits of 2021.

Blink and you’ll miss the world in ‘About Endlessness’ Roy Andersson/Courtesy Grade: 4.0/5.0 “About Endlessness” is the cinematic edition of the law of conservation of energy. It evokes the concept far more artistically — although a brilliant scene mentions thermodynamics. But that’s what Roy Andersson’s latest feature is: A tasteful montage of brief moments in the in-between and the grand, the welcome and the unwelcome, “About Endlessness” splices together mostly unrelated ...

For Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, there is immortality in art Carlos Aguilar © (Magnolia Pictures) A scene from the movie "About Endlessness." (Magnolia Pictures) Fragments of existence build the absurdist tableaux of esteemed Swedish director Roy Andersson. Each stand-alone vignette in his features over the last two decades evolved from impressions that kindled an emotion within him. Their origin varies. Some reconceptualize scenarios he’s witnessed, while others take c...

Save this story for later. A man sits alone at a table, in a restaurant, reading a newspaper. Beside him is a white-jacketed waiter, holding a bottle of red wine. The man tastes a little of the wine and nods. The waiter starts to pour and fails to stop. The wine brims over the top of the glass, like water in a fountain, and spreads across the tablecloth. The waiter mops at the spill with his napkin, to no avail. He could be a murderer, trying to wipe away his crime. Not a word is spoken. In voi...

The week’s new Netflix, Amazon, and rental releases are here. This week, there’s Michael B. Jordan spy action thriller Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse on Amazon Prime Video, The Mitchells vs. the Machines on Netflix, The Outside Story, Voyagers, and more; all available to stream starting today.

Thuc Nhi Nguyen, and it’s Friday, April 30. Here’s the latest on what’s happening with the coronavirus, plus ways to spend your weekend and a look at some of the week’s best stories. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Not long ago, finding an open vaccine appointme...

After finishing his film, DimLand, he is reconsidering what, exactly, he is making. “Spending almost all my time trying to make movies, Ive realized a big part is about trying to feel some kind of communion with others.” DimLand tracks the connections we make with each other, with the past, and with the unknown. Get tickets for DimLand, available for streaming April 29. The movie is an atmospheric and surreal story of Brynn (Martha Brown) and Laika (Odinaka Ezeokoli), two Chicagoa...

Los Angeles Times and NPRs Fresh Air, and a regular contributor to KPCCs FilmWeek. He previously served as chief film critic and editor of film reviews for Variety. Chang is the author of FilmCraft: Editing, a book of interviews with seventeen top film editors. He serves as chair of the National Society of Film Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

And unlike its predecessor, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, it never quite takes flight

In eternally youth-obsessed and -targeting Hollywood, directors have long complained of being “aged out” of the business, judged too old to serve modern audiences’ (or perhaps just studio executives’) tastes despite all willingness to work. Yet outside the commercial mainstream, this seems to be a pretty good era to be a veteran filmmaker. While it used to be that the octogenarian or even septuagenarian behind the camera was a rarity, these days there’s an increasingly large field of ...