‘Dosed’: Film Review

This unfussy eco-doc benefits from the earnest commitment of Javier Bardem as he joins Greenpeace in an Antarctic conservation mission.

The credited adaptation source for Love Wedding Repeat might be a minor French comedy from 2012 called Plan de table, but the model for this strained opera buffa is two Brit hits from the 1990s: Sliding Doors and Four Weddings and a Funeral. From the first comes the idea of parallel realities, their varying permutations dictated by chance; from the second, well, it's right there in the new film's title.

Crazy Rich Asians may have been named after (a tiny minority of) Asians in Asia, but it likely became so widely embraced by Asian Americans because it acknowledged us as a group distinct from our ethnic counterparts on the other side of the Pacific. Director Jon M.

Fish-out-of-water story, grief drama, opposites-attract rom-com, family-secrets saga and ode to country living — there are plenty of facets to The Lost Husband, and none of them feels particularly fresh or urgent. With its homespun Hallmark vibe, though, writer-director Vicky Wight's adaptation of a 2013 novel by Katherine Center might be just the kind of comfort food that fans of the romance genre crave right now.

Hip-hop photographer Estevan Oriol digs into his archive and calls up old friends in order to serve up the inside scoop on his collaboration with tattoo legend Mister Cartoon.

A tween boy finds wrestling stardom through a magical mask in this family-friendly flick that’s more of a tomato can than a champion.

'Master of None' producer Alan Yang reveals insights into his own upbringing, but falls short of fully capturing his immigrant father's experience, in this intimate drama now available on Netflix.

Sam Claflin gives you that '90s Hugh Grant feeling in a captivating romantic comedy set entirely at a wedding, which becomes an escalating romantic disaster — until it starts all over again.

Director Sonejuhi Sinha leaves a stylish calling card with this seamily seductive if familiar motel-set crime thriller.

A pair of charming leads and a picturesque setting can't save Vicky Wight’s Hallmark-y romantic drama in desperate need of more romance.

[Note: In the wake of SXSW's cancellation this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select fest entries that elected to screen digitally for critics.] S.R. Bindler's 1997 documentary Hands on a Hard Body —about a Texas endurance contest in which the last contestant awake with a hand touching a new truck would win it —was an unexpected sensation, attracting attention long before today's doc boom and inspiring spinoffs including a Broadway musical.

Marc Meyers' '80s psycho thriller about a trio of young metalhead vipers plays off the mythology of satanic heavy-metal murders and pulls the bloody rug out from under it too.

Butt Boy

The body count nearly matches the cast list in this bloody but inventive festival favorite from first-time Russian director Kirill Sokolov.

[Note: In the wake of SXSW's cancellation this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select fest entries that elected to screen digitally for critics.] Few SXSW attendees in 2011 would have expected that Dave Boyle's likably shambling Surrogate Valentine would ever get the sequel treatment.

A documentary featuring Steven Greer, apostle of the alien-visitation disclosure movement, has tantalizing "sightings," but reveals that ET obsession is now the mother ship of conspiracy theory.

Movies about inner city schoolteachers attempting to connect with their unruly students have long been a cinematic staple, dating at least as far back as 1955's The Blackboard Jungle. But few have approached the subject with the impressive realism and naturalism as Hanan Harchol's semi-autobiographical feature directorial debut.

'Stranger Things' actor Noah Schnapp plays a young chef of mixed Israeli and Palestinian heritage looking for a fusion-food solution to his family troubles.

An experimental feature whose opening scenes will have many unprepared viewers searching for the exit, She's Allergic to Cats is not nearly as unfriendly as it initially seems.

It would seem we're in a moment of unusual openness to the idea that Earth-dwellers aren't alone in the universe. Mainstream news outlets reveal that some government entities take the idea seriously; tantalizing (and seemingly not-doctored) videos capture aerial phenomena that, while vaguely photographed, are hard to explain.