Critic's Picks

Maciek Hamela’s documentary offers a compelling perspective on the Russian invasion of Ukraine through the stories of people fleeing the country in a van.

By Nicolas Rapold

For her first headlining tour in an innovative three-decade career, Elliott unleashed a relentless and exhilarating display of theatrical and visual ambition.

By Jon Caramanica

The hit Encores! production has transferred to Broadway, with a cast fiercely dedicated to entertaining its audience.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

Lily Collias delivers an extraordinary lead performance in this exquisite debut feature about a camping trip and a moment of self-realization.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Dan Stevens and Hunter Schafer face off in this unexpectedly fun and undeniably nutty horror-comedy about cross-species pollination.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

This nail-biter of a documentary imagines it is Jan. 6, 2025, and armed supporters of the losing candidate are hatching a coup and maybe a civil war. What will the nation’s leaders do?

By Manohla Dargis

Yemenat, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, offers Yemeni delights rarely found in New York City.

By Pete Wells

Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s new work about an ambitious minister’s rise in the 1980s is that rarity in contemporary music: an original story.

By Zachary Woolfe

A vibrant coming-of-age story about an awkward teenager in California in 2008 is also a love letter to the director’s mother.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Teatro Nuovo is giving Carolina Uccelli’s pioneering “Anna di Resburgo” its first performances since its premiere in 1835.

By Joshua Barone