Critic's Picks

A collection of Critic's Picks from The Times, including movies, music, restaurants and more.

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‘All Shall Be Well’ Review: Aching With Absence
The indignity of being someone’s spouse while they are alive and merely a friend after their death is the theme of this extraordinarily moving Hong Kong drama.
By Natalia Winkelman
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‘The Substance’ Review: An Indecent Disclosure
Demi Moore stars in an absurdly gory tale of an aging actress who discovers a deadly cure for obscurity.
By Alissa Wilkinson
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‘His Three Daughters’ Review: Sisters at Odds Together
Natasha Lyonne, Carrie Coon and Elizabeth Olsen play sisters who are caring for their dying father in this tender, funny family drama.
By Manohla Dargis
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‘A Different Man’ Review: Face, Off
Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson star in a marvelously inventive dark comedy about a man who can’t change his insides.
By Alissa Wilkinson
A Wildly Popular New York Taqueria Nails Its Sequel
Carnitas Ramírez, the East Village sibling of a hit restaurant in Brooklyn, turns out tacos that hark back to the dish’s working-class roots.
By Priya Krishna
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‘Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds’ Review: Flights of Fantasy
Two sisters get transported to a new world and transformed into cats in this whimsical and thoughtful animated feature.
By Maya Phillips
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Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Returns to New York, and Mahler
The conductor led the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, an inspiring opening night for a season starting off unsettled.
By Zachary Woolfe
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‘My Old Ass’ Review: If She Could Turn Back Time
A buoyant comedy with a big heart follows a teen girl who meets her older self the summer before college.
By Alissa Wilkinson
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Kara Young Charms in ‘Table 17,’ a Rom-Com That Believes in True Love
The Tony winner leads a top-notch cast in Zhailon Levingston’s alluringly designed production of Douglas Lyons’s hopeful new play.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
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Astro Bot Review: All History Lessons Should Be This Fun
About 150 PlayStation characters, including the dragon Spyro and the cylinder-headed prince from Katamari Damacy, make appearances in a paean to Sony’s legacy.
By Harold Goldberg