The best movies out right now

Bong Joon-ho’s latest is the dazzling social-satire-cum-home-invasion-drama we need right now.

Pedro Almodóvar’s nostalgia-soaked memoir is a humane journey into an aging director’s soul.

Joaquin Phoenix is devastating as a monster-in-the-making in this incendiary tale of abuse and psychopathy.

A thoughtful documentary gets under the skin of a sci-fi-horror masterpiece.

James Gray’s space odyssey marries heart and spectacle—and a fine Brad Pitt performance—in a memorable journey to the stars.

Jennifer Lopez delivers the performance of her career in this crime drama about a group of strippers taking on Wall Street.

Kids train for guerrilla fighting in a gorgeously atmospheric film that feels like a transmission from the future.

A grown-up Losers’ Club does battle with its own hang-ups in a superior sequel

Jillian Bell shines in a complex comedy about health, fat-shaming and the relentless forward momentum of being a New Yorker.

Rooted in an especially lawless moment of Australia's past, Jennifer Kent's impressive follow-up to The Babadook finds a new kind of scary.

Ang Lee parties like it’s 2012 with a 3-D actioner laid low by fugly high-frame-rate visuals and dumb plot machinations.

Natalie Portman misfires in a psychodrama about astronauts that never summons the heat of a true meltdown.

Renée Zellweger puts on a show as a waning Judy Garland but this redemption story runs out of juice.

A Shanghai teen befriends a not-so-scary snowman on the loose in this amiable, overly familiar piece of corporate animation.

Steven Soderbergh delivers a rare misfire with this nose-honking satire of global money laundering and the super-rich.

Thirty-seven years after his first outing, John Rambo signs off with a grim and eye-poppingly xenophobic kill fest.

Fans get the big-screen adaptation of their dreams, though a casual viewer may wonder what all the fuss is about.

Slavishly faithful to the book's subplots but stuck in a two-and-a-half-hour brood, the film version never takes wing.

A scrappy bride squares off against her in-laws from hell in a fun if dull-witted marital nightmare.

Tweens just wanna have fun in a profane comedy that plays off its cast's innocence.