The biggest gamble is that the story, which takes place in a far future, is told from a Yautja’s perspective — specifically one named Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi). By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI This article contains minor spoilers for “Predator: Badlands.” When it comes to movie franchises, the “Predator” one has never been considered elite, despite a loyal fandom. It doesn’t have the cultural impact of “Star Wars,” the techno-goth aura of “Alien,” the Tom Cruiseness of “

Its story may revolve around Grace, but “Die My Love” revolves around Jennifer Lawrence, for whom this feels like a career-defining role — not that she really required one. By ALISSA WILKINSON A description is insufficient to describe some movies, and “Die My Love,” directed by Lynne Ramsay, is one of them. A young couple, Grace and Jackson, move to a house in the woods. They have a baby, and in the midst of fierce postpartum depression, Grace starts to lose her grasp on real

By JASON BAILEY ‘Sharp Corner’ (2025) This psychologically intense and often frightening character study starts innocuously enough, as middle manager Josh (Ben Foster), his wife, Rachel (Cobie Smulders), and their young son move from the city to a dream home in the suburbs. But their newfound bliss is punctured on the very first night by a horrible automobile accident in their front yard, thanks to a particularly dangerous curve that comes to consume Josh. Adapting a short st

By ROBERT DANIELS ‘11 Rebels’ Two things make a great samurai movie: expert staging and an unlikely hero. Both are present in Kazuya Shiraishi’s precisely crafted “11 Rebels,” set during the Japanese civil war in 1868. Its protagonist is Masa (Takayuki Yamada), a prisoner who is enlisted to defend a remote fort from the approaching imperial army. Because he was incarcerated for killing his wife’s rapist, a samurai, Masa struggles to fit in with the fort’s leader, Washio (Taig

Spanish director Oliver Laxe in Paris, Nov. 8, 2025. With the existential action thriller “Sirat,” set in the rave culture of Morocco, Laxe says that he was not out to shock, but that he is still haunted by one scene. (Maxime La/The New York Times) By BEN KENIGSBERG Psychoanalysis, Sufism, Andrei Tarkovsky, the Rolling Stones: These are some of the influences that informed the creation of “Sirat,” perhaps the year’s least describable and most terrifying film. Since its premie

In Watkins’ sprawling output of movies the unifying principles were an utmost distrust of authority and the threat of civic annihilation. (Instagram via icarusfilms_) By J. HOBERMAN Peter Watkins, a British filmmaker and artistic provocateur whose movies blurred the line between documentary and fiction, most powerfully in “The War Game,” his Oscar-winning 1965 evocation of a nuclear attack that the BBC deemed “too horrifying” to air, died Oct. 30 in Bourganeuf, France. He was

Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” was named album of the year and gathered four more awards at the 26th annual Latin Grammys. (Instagram via muchofficial) By JON PARELES Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” was named album of the year and gathered four more awards at the 26th annual Latin Grammys, which were broadcast Thursday night on TelevisaUnivision from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. On “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”) he sings about holding on to m

The 80-member Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Maximiano Valdés and featuring cuatro soloist Luis Sanz, above, will bring to Boston an evening of rhythms and warmth from home. (bso.org) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to THE STAR Mega bucks superstar Bad Bunny isn’t the Caribbean island’s only musical treasure, and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) is about to see that everybody knows it. Friday night in chilly Boston, in the prestigious Symphony Hall, th