Art and movie

Another masterwork from Clint Eastwood’s astonishing late period, and one of the best war movies ever.

A modest, diverting, touching tale of a young woman who attracts the interest of an aging actor, played with effortless aplomb by the great Peter O’Toole.

The Chinese director Zhang Yimou achieves a kind of operatic delirium, opening the floodgates of image and melodrama until the line between tragedy and black comedy is all but erased.

Surprisingly, “Rocky Balboa” is no embarrassment. Like its forerunners it goes the distance almost in spite of itself.

Alison Chernick’s aptly-named documentary takes us aboard a Japanese whaling vessel to witness the filming of the artist Matthew Barney’s film “Drawing Restraint 9.”

In “The Case of the Grinning Cat,” the filmmaker Chris Marker fluidly moves over and under Paris, capturing images of fugitive beauty and pathos.

The third film iteration of “The Painted Veil” turns W. Somerset Maugham’s distaff bildungsroman into a fine romance.

J L Aronson’s documentary is about Daniel Smith, a musician who performs Christian music that is a world away from most of what is heard under that label.

With its retro look, cautionary theme and not-so-special effects, "Automatons" is a shameless ode to ’60s sci-fi and classic television shows.

Audiences who go to “Dreamgirls” will have a good time, but they’ll be going for old time’s sake rather than to encounter anything vital or new.