| November 7, 2025 
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Hi, movie fans! I just finished closing our holiday preview, and wow, there are a ton of good films to look forward to. This month alone brings “Hamnet,” the latest “Knives Out” installment and “Zootopia 2.” (I love how the original had a sloth working at the D.M.V.) And don’t get me started on December. So. Many. Treats. In the meantime, our critics have singled out several worthy titles in theaters now, like “Sentimental Value,” from Joachim Trier. This drama stars Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve as a father and daughter with a strained relationship to say the least. But there are many comic moments, starting with the opening when Reinsve’s actress character tries to flee instead of going onstage on opening night. “Trier remains blissfully attuned to the absurdity of life,” our chief critic, Manohla Dargis, writes in her critic’s pick review, adding, that his “lightness of touch makes a striking contrast to the film’s emotional weightiness.” “Die My Love” is a tough watch to be sure, but it features a “career-defining” performance by Jennifer Lawrence as a young mother dealing with postpartum depression, writes our critic, Alissa Wilkinson. In her critic’s pick review, she says, “I loved it the first time I saw it, and loved it more the second. Not only because it takes a huge swing and connects, but because this is the role I’ve been wanting to see Lawrence play since I first saw her in ‘Winter’s Bone’ all those years ago.” And “Peter Hujar’s Day” may not be for everyone, but those interested in New York life in the 1970s will want to take note. Based on actual interview transcripts, the director Ira Sachs captures a conversation between the noted photographer of the title (played by Ben Whishaw) and the writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) talking about the previous day’s activities. Making the film a critic’s pick, Jeannette Catsoulis writes, “In its attention to the quotidian routines familiar to us all, the movie finds meaning in the mundane, showing how the most ordinary events — like, in Hujar’s case, a phone call from Susan Sontag — can one day add up to an extraordinary life.” Whatever you end up watching, enjoy the movies! | STREAMING RECOMMENDATIONS | |
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