‘The Decline’: Film Review

[Note: In the wake ofthe Tribeca festival's cancellation this year,The Hollywood Reporteris reviewing select entries that elected to premiere digitally.] There are close-ups, and then there are close-ups — frame-filling, heart-stopping glimpses of a soul. In the brief but stirring Stray, those glimpsed souls belong to dogs who live on the streets of a major city.

A biopic about the young David Bowie (but without any Bowie songs) captures him on a 1971 road trip across America, when he was still putting together the insinuating image puzzle that would become Ziggy Stardust.

Mirrors have long exerted a dark fascination, from the Bloody Mary game you may have played in childhood to its use in numerous horror films including Candyman, Oculus and, of course, Mirrors.

Real-estate chicanery leads to the high life — and eventually the jail cell — in Netflix's flashy but familiar criminal caper.

So-called reparative therapy designed to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, using religious indoctrination and bogus psychology, has been dealt with in both dramatic features (Boy Erased, The Miseducation of Cameron Post) and comedies (But I'm a Cheerleader, Saved!).

Uruguayan newcomer Lucia Garibaldi's coming-of-age drama has humid promise, but circles around its darkest psychological questions.

America's opioid crisis would seem too dire a subject to receive shallow cinematic treatment. So it's ironic, then, that Spencer T.

From What's New Pussycat? to Dressed to Kill, Silence of the Lambs to Basic Instinct, the big screen hasn't lacked for memorably twisted shrinks. Suffice it to say that the latest psycho psych, Dr.

A somber drama built on the idea that a small town is no place to try keeping secrets, Scott Teems' The Quarry pits a Texas police chief (Michael Shannon) against a newly arrived preacher (Shea Whigham) who isn't who he claims to be. Catalina Sandino Moreno and Bobby Soto round out a very fine cast; but sensitive performances only go so far toward generating sparks in the slow-moving film, which never becomes the crime-and-punishment nail-biter it might've been.

"He knows what he does, but he ain't got no clue who he is": The opening quote in Benjamin May's The Legend of Swee' Pea pretty well sums up the tone of a doc about a basketball player who let success slip away from him. Lloyd Daniels, who as a teen drew comparisons to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and other greats, was so attractive to college coaches that he wound up sneaking into a university without a high school degree.

An earnest, over-stuffed infomercial for the potential and benefits of practicing mindfulness.

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.