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Review: 'Tomorrowland,' Brad Bird's Lesson in Optimism By A. O. SCOTT There is nothing casual or whimsical about this movie's celebration of hope, imagination and joy. Movie Overview Dwayne Johnson, Star of 'San Andreas,' Is Solid. Solid as a ... By MELENA RYZIK Dwayne Johnson, onetime wrestling deity, stretches his muscles as a leading man in the thriller "San Andreas."

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Movie Reviews Review: 'Aloft' Trains an Eagle Eye on Human Misery By A. O. SCOTT Claudia Llosa's movie concerns a healer, her two sons and the ambivalence she feels about her gift. Movie Overview Review: 'When Marnie Was There,' by Studio Ghibli, Animates a Friendship With Ominous Undertones By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS Beneath its calm, exquisitely detailed surface, "When Marnie Was There" bubbles with half-formed ideas and undeveloped themes. Review: 'Sunshine Superman,' About the High-Flying Daredevil Carl Boenish By NEIL GENZLINGER This documentary, directed by Marah Strauch, is a bittersweet take on a man who looked at very tall things and saw an opportunity to jump. Movie Overview Review: In 'Human Centipede 3' There's No Humanity Left By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS The film, subtitled "Final Sequence," feels drained and desperate. Movie Overview Review: '(Dis)Honesty - The Truth About Lies' Assumes Everyone Tells Them By STEPHEN HOLDEN Yael Melamede takes a lighthearted look at lies through the lens of the behavioral economist Dan Ariely in this documentary. Movie Overview Review: 'The Japanese Dog,' a Family Reunion in Romania By BEN KENIGSBERG In Tudor Cristian Jurgiu's first feature film, a Romanian engineer living in Japan takes his family to visit his father, a curmudgeonly widower who has lost everything. Movie Overview Review: In 'Something Better to Come,' Growing Up in a Garbage Dump By NEIL GENZLINGER Hanna Polak's documentary visits Yula and the rest of a community squatting for years in a landfill outside wealthy Moscow. Movie Overview Review: 'Güeros' Amid the Mexican Student Protests of 1999 By A. O. SCOTT In Alonso Ruizpalacios's film, a boy from the country arrives in Mexico City just in time for the student strikes. Movie Overview Review: 'The Farewell Party' Finds Laughs in Euthanasia By STEPHEN HOLDEN In Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon's Israeli comedy, set at a Jerusalem retirement home, an amateur inventor devises a "mercy-killing machine." Movie Overview Review: 'Love at First Fight,' a Romance in the Wild By STEPHEN HOLDEN Adèle Haenel stars in this film about a woman out to prove how tough she is; her savior ends up being a man, though. Movie Overview Review: 'Seeds of Time,' a Documentary on a Crusader for Crop Diversity By NICOLAS RAPOLD The urgency of expanding the world's seed portfolio is made eminently clear in this film directed by Sandy McLeod. Movie Overview

Video Features 'Tomorrowland' (With Movie Trailer): Brad Bird Narrates a Scene By MEKADO MURPHY The director Brad Bird discusses a sequence from "Tomorrowland." Video: This Week's Movies: May 22, 2015 The New York Times film critics review "Tomorrowland," "Aloft" and "The Farewell Party." Related Review: 'Tomorrowland' Related Review: 'Aloft' Related Review: 'The Farewell Party'

News & Features 'Inside Out,' Pixar's New Movie From Pete Docter, Goes Inside the Mind By BROOKS BARNES The story follows an 11-year-old girl and the emotions that scramble around inside her head. 'Madame Bovary' and 'Gemma Bovery' Revive and Refract a Heroine By CHARLES McGRATH The Frenchwomen Anne Fontaine, with "Madame Bovary," and Sophie Barthes, with "Gemma Bovery," offer differing meditations on French literature's great adulteress. 'The Assassin' Director on Long Takes, Fast Edits and a Warrior in the Shadows By MANOHLA DARGIS Hou Hsiao-Hsien's film was the subject of rapturous reviews at Cannes. Sexually Explicit 3-D Film Inspires Pans and Walkouts at Cannes By RACHEL DONADIO Gaspar Noé defends his film "Love," saying 12-year-olds should see it. '(Dis)Honesty - The Truth About Lies' Examines How Falsehoods Sprout By ROBIN POGREBIN A new documentary explores thorny questions like why people lie, how they do it and what is the fallout. Archivists Find Fragments of an Unfinished Orson Welles Autobiography By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES With the working title "Confessions of a One-Man Band," the unfinished memoir appears to have been in the works since the 1970s. ArtsBeat Michael Caine on Elderly Roles and Why He Snubbed Cannes After 'Alfie' By RACHEL DONADIO The actor stars with Harvey Keitel in the festival entry "Youth," from Paolo Sorrentino. A Director Casts a Woman to Play Him in the Tale of His Life By RACHEL DONADIO Nanni Moretti's "My Mother" was inspired by the death of his own parent. At the Cannes Film Festival, Some Gems Midway Through By MANOHLA DARGIS "The Assassin," "Son of Saul," "Journey to the Shore," Nanni Moretti's "My Mother" and Todd Haynes's "Carol" are standouts at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in France. Thierry Frémaux Shapes the Cannes Film Festival Schedule By RACHEL DONADIO Mr. Frémaux's work offstage during the year, in which he selects the films shown at the festival, makes him one of the most powerful, and scrutinized, figures in the film universe.

On Video Occupation Fables on DVD: 'Le Silence de la Mer' and 'Vice and Virtue' By J. HOBERMAN Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Silence de la Mer" finds a metaphor for the French Resistance. Roger Vadim's "Vice and Virtue" traffics in lurid imagery.

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A. O. Scott Recommends Mad Max: Fury Road This George Miller film, with Tom Hardy as the hero, has the spirit of a sequel to the original: Speed and efficiency are of the essence, leavened with nasty biker wit and distaste for authority. NYT Review | Buy Tickets | Watch Trailer Manohla Dargis Recommends Iris Mr. Maysles’s penultimate documentary shows the 93-year-old Ms. Apfel in all her bedecked glory, and the confused reactions she elicits. NYT Review | Buy Tickets | Watch Trailer Stephen Holden Recommends Good Kill This Andrew Niccol film is a blunt critique of remote-control warfare, which is transforming the reality of battle into a video game whose casualties are pixels on a screen. NYT Review | Buy Tickets | Watch Trailer For more recommendations, go to Critics' Picks »

Top Fives Top-grossing, most talked about and upcoming movies. Box Office » 1.  Pitch Perfect 2 2.  Mad Max: Fury Road 3.  Avengers: Age of Ultron 4.  Hot Pursuit 5.  Furious 7 Times Pulse » 1.  Mad Max: Fury Road 2.  Clouds of Sils Maria 3.  Ex Machina 4.  Tomorrowland 5.  Alone With a Stranger Coming soon » Welcome to this House The Mama Sherpas Monster Trucks Insidious: Chapter 3 Unfreedom For showtimes and tickets, go to Tickets & Showtimes »