The Oscar-winning director of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus” died last week.

The road trip movie gets an unfiltered tone and a uniquely anachronistic destination in this weighty portrait.

A new documentary explores the life of the singer and style icon, now nearly 70, and it is a bracing experience.

The former Marine made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men.

After a wobbly start, Dwayne Johnson muscled his way to a No. 1 opening for “Rampage” — but just barely.

The Globe’s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.

The director spoke by phone about “Beirut,” independent filmmaking, and his on-going love affair with Boston.

“24 Frames,” Kiarostami’s final work, was unfinished at his death and completed by his son, Ahmad; it’s somewhere between a film, an art installation, and a series of vaguely unsettling screensavers.

“The Corridor” chronicles a high school behind bars.

Documentary screenings on a range of topics, including pollution, natural beauty, and the Marathon. 

Boston filmmaker Sanja Zdjelar returns to the Boston International Film Festival with her debut feature “The Immigrant.”

Co-director Xuan Liang reveals the depth of meaning and breadth of inspiration in the animated “Big Fish & Begonia.”

Will a disagreement about a hallowed movie franchise throw them off course?

The tale of an emotionally frail hitman is violent, sad, tender, and alive, and it is as assured a piece of moviemaking as you’ll ever see.

Horror-heavy studio Blumhouse, riding an excellent year bookended by “Get Out” and “Happy Death Day,” proves it is fully capable of churning out derivative dreck.

Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s muted, harsh tale is more Steinbeck than “Seabiscuit.”

The engaging dynamic between our hero and his gargantuan, computer-generated pal is the movie’s best surprise.

The sobering, remarkable documentary is about Padraig O’Malley, a Dublin-born Cambridge resident who has helped broker peace deals in Northern Ireland and Iraq.

A review of the Estonian black comedy “November,” playing at the Museum of Fine Arts.

In “Meghan: A Hollywood Princess,” celebrity biographer Andrew Morton argues that Markle could be a new kind of royal.

We don’t know much about the relationship between MIT professor Neri Oxman and Brad Pitt. But here are a few things we do know about Oxman.

The MFA screens a documentary about the National Gallery exhibition “Cézanne Portraits.”

Kite Day, the Boston International Film Festival, Native American art at the MFA, and more.

Comings and goings of businesses and other organizations in the suburbs west of Boston.

The director of “You Were Never Really Here” makes movies that make an impression.

“Boston: The Documentary” is a rejuvenating experience: It doesn’t let 2013 define the other 121 years. And it reminds you that this local event is truly a celebration of global endeavor.

The Globe’s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.

According to Page Six, Pitt has been spending time with Neri Oxman after meeting her through an MIT architecture project.

A new documentary looks at the Cambridge resident’s 40 years of lessening international conflicts.

New releases

A round-up of documentary screenings and events.

“Pandas” looks at the animals being prepared to go back into the wild.

In a comedy about high school virgins with sex on the brain the kids have plans the adults want to foil.

An adaptation of the celebrated 1928 play about the World War I trenches.

Smart and truly scary horror movies know that it’s not how much to show your audience that gets results, but rather how little.

“Ramen Heads” celebrates a mainstay of Japanese cuisine.

Stanley Tucci wrote and directed this based-on-fact film about the artist.

After 50 years, no version of this story is untold, and this telling is no truer than the rest.

“Chappaquiddick” hews reasonably close to those points we know to be true and is juicily provocative about what happened in rooms you and I weren’t privy to.

New documentary pogos around bands like Nervous Eaters and DMZ back in the era of the Rat

Krasinski, a Newton native, once told Boston.com he wanted to work with his wife “in any way, shape, or form.” It seems the work isn’t always easy.