NYT Movie Reviews

The documentary “Last Train Home” looks at a generation of migrant workers who have sacrificed their families to China’s rush to economic supremacy.

“Pandora and the Flying Dutchman,” Albert Lewin’s morbid, grandiloquent Technicolor film starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, has been released on DVD.

Matt Dillon plays a cop chasing a gang of highly polished robbers in “Takers.”

Vincent Cassel, in a four-hour biography of a French gangster, gives a performance reminiscent of Mitchum and De Niro.

Daniel Stamm’s film “The Last Exorcism” follows a preacher who’s lost faith as he is called on to oust the Devil from a teenage girl.

“Change of Plans” gathers 11 people and throws them into a bouillabaisse of domestic and romantic complication.

A prop shop in Long Island City, run by Film Biz Recycling, is a nonprofit loaded with items donated from television and commercial productions.

A listing of movies and film series.

From Dana Brown, who made “Step Into Liquid,” comes a documentary about a surfing season on the North Shore of Oahu.

Rob Reiner directs this story about two youngsters who develop feelings for each other in late 1950s America.

“Centurion,” directed by Neil Marshall, follows a Roman Army mission into Scotland in 117 A.D.

A first feature from the Deagol Brothers inspects a summer romance with decaying flesh.

Magaly Solier plays a stoic young woman in Lima contending with her mother’s death.

Michel Franco’s debut feature looks at the fallout of the kidnapping of a brother and sister from a well-off family.

In David H. Hickey’s comedy, a Middle Eastern strongman headed for Cuba crash-lands in Texas.

Mr. Schlingensief, a German filmmaker, theater director and all-purpose gadfly, waged a tireless assault on received opinion in the arts and politics.

Mr. Kon was a Japanese filmmaker and comic-book artist whose dazzling visual compositions won him a devoted following.

The poet Missak Manouchian and other outsiders battle the German occupiers and their French collaborators.

Honorary Oscars will also be handed out to Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach and the film preservationist Kevin Brownlow.

In “Piranha 3D” Alexandre Aja brings us hungry fish and shredded limbs in this loose remake of a 1978 film.