The Movie Cricket

Young filmmaker Kris Williams (Hannah Einbinder, left) and retired actress Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson) watch Billy’s personal copy of the slasher film she starred in, which Kris wants to remake, in writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.” (Photo courtesy of Mubi.)

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Young Anthony Bourdain, right (played by Dominic Sessa), learns how to shuck an oyster from a sly chef (Antonio Banderas), in director Matt Johnson’s “Tony.” (Photo courtesy of A24.)

The celebrity chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain was the subject of a lot of mythologizing over his life, some ...

Cody Parsons (Will Poulter, left) and his foster brother, Jack (Noah Centineo), are enrolled in a county-mandated drug court, in writer-director Adam Meeks’ drama “Union County.” (Photo courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories.)

Most movies about recovery from addiction fall into familiar plot p...

Amziah King (Matthew McConaughey, left) gives his new protege, Kateri (Angelina LookingGlass), lessons in tending to bees in director Andrew Patterson’s drama/thriller “The Rivals of Amziah King.” (Photo by Kyle Kaplan, courtesy of Black Bear.)

It’s difficult to get a handle on what kind of m...

The Platt family — from left: Greg (Ewan McGregor), Brian (Christian Convery), Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Denise (Anne Hathaway) — discover something terrifying has happened in their suburban neighborhood in the thriller “The End of Oak Street.” (Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.)

It wo...