Our critic calls Arrival, “the smartest movie that I’ve seen in any genre in a long, long time.”

Based on actual soldier and family-member letters written from the American Revolution all the way through current-day Afghanistan, the play pays tribute to veterans and their families while examining the internal struggles that soldiers face when returning home from combat.

Don’t look to Doctor Strange for deeply nuanced character development. Mostly this is an eye-candy-laden thrill ride through a plethora of dimensions, taking the Escheresque planar foldings of Inception to levels heretofore unprecedented onscreen.

Film review of “Certain Women,” whose characters know what they want, but are too “nice” to go for it. Kelly Reichardt, who teaches at Bard College when she isn’t off shooting a film, says that the stories she tells onscreen are “all about getting from point A to point B, about someone going from stuck to unstuck.”

Capitol Steps and Andy Borowitz offer pre- and post-election satire at Bardavon

On a few occasions in the early days of the cinema industry, indie filmmakers with limited production budgets managed to capture more authentic representations of Native American lifeways. One such experiment, long thought lost but recently restored, was The Daughter of Dawn, shot in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma in 1920 by Norbert A. Myles and Richard Banks.

The multipart podcast series – picked up by the sympathetic Night Vale Presents network – tells the story of a surreal radio variety show that takes place atop the Eiffel Tower, and centers on the figure of a lonely janitor, played by Koster himself.