NYT Movie Reviews

After the success of “The Passion of the Christ,” Hollywood still hasn’t tapped the appetite for faith-based cinema. But new films are trying.

3-D is definitely part of the cinema’s past — never as gloriously and gaudily as in the approximately 45 features in Classic 3-D at Film Forum.

Miguel Gomes, Pedro Costa, Ulrich Seidl and Apichatpong Weerasethakul are some of the world cinema directors blending staged and real-life scenes in their work.

Mr. Millin, who was asked to play the bagpipes as British troops landed in Normandy, was immortalized in the movie “The Longest Day.”

Jasmin Tabatabai and Magaly Solier are grieving women from different worlds in a tale of ecological exploitation.

In a first feature by Zach Clark, an R.N. learns the whips-and-chains trade.

A listing of movies and film series.

The Ace Hotel figures as a backdrop in a new short film, part of a deal with the social media site Massify and Killer Films.

Chiara Mastroianni portrays a conflicted mother of two under constant criticism in Christophe Honoré’s unsentimental family portrait “Making Plans for Léna.”

Chi Cao plays the dancer Li Cunxin, who defected from China and moved to Houston, in this adaptation of his memoir, directed by Bruce Beresford.

With help from Ice Cube and T-Pain, Bow Wow deals with winning a megapot of money.

In Gary Lundgren’s film, Alex Frost is a player without many skills.

A South Asian family copes with a grandmother’s behavior.

A scatterbrained romantic comedy stars Jennifer Aniston as a single mother whose young son is not the child of the man she selected as a sperm donor.

Emma Thompson is back, warts, snaggletooth and all, in “Nanny McPhee Returns.”

The number of movie scenes showing smoking fell recently, but more than half of all PG-13 rated films still showed smoking.

Amir Bar-Lev’s documentary looks at how a hero’s family fought the military to learn the truth about his death.

The Israeli director Yael Hersonski embarks on a critical analysis of a Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto.

Mr. Guarini, the runner-up on the inaugural season of "American Idol," will play the son of Patti LuPone and Brian Stokes Mitchell in the musical version of "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."

Jenn Proske and Matt Lanter star in “Vampires Suck,” Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer’s lampoon of the “Twilight” series.