Movie Review | ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby’
When Sorrow Is Deeper Than Love
By A. O. SCOTT
In chronicling the end of a marriage, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” crosses a landscape mined with loss, secrets and questions of identity.
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In “The Drop,” based on a short story by Dennis Lehane, a decade-old unsolved murder casts a shadow on a Brooklyn bar.
In “Bird People,” a businessman and a maid at an airport hotel abruptly seek escapes from unhappy lives.
In chronicling the end of a marriage, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” crosses a landscape mined with loss, secrets and questions of identity.
In “The Skeleton Twins,” Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig play twins who reconnect after a long impasse and jointly struggle with their present and past.
Nadav Schirman’s documentary thriller “The Green Prince” tells the story of a Palestinian recruited as a spy by the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, and his Israeli handler.
Few words are spoken in “Stray Dogs,” Tsai Ming-liang’s exercise in Asian miserablism, with the modern industrial cityscape of Taipei seen as a chilly wasteland.
In Genevieve Bailey’s documentary “I Am Eleven,” 11-year-olds in 15 countries talk about home, school, war, love, marriage and visions of the future.
In “Honeymoon,” wedded bliss in a rural cabin gives way to terror when a wife starts acting strange.
“Take Me to the River” looks to the past and the future of a vanishing musical legacy.
“The Quitter,” directed by and starring Matthew Bonifacio, focuses on a washed-up baseball star.
“Dolphin Tale 2” is the story of the humans who love one brave dolphin and the race to find a new playmate for her, because otherwise they’ll lose her to another aquarium.
The Trailer Park Boys, the Canadian mockumentary franchise, creates a film outlet for its vaunted limited vocabulary.
In “At the Devil’s Door,” nothing good comes of selling your soul, especially when Satan is involved.
“The Man on Her Mind,” based on a play by Alan Hruska, deals with objects of desire, real and imaginary.
In “Archaeology of a Woman,” Sally Kirkland plays an ex-newspaper columnist battling dementia while a murder mystery unfolds.
Max Gail stars as a retired college professor in “The Frontier,” a family drama.
In “Finding Fanny,” the actress Dimple Kapadia plays a busybody in a backwater town who joins others in doing a good deed.
Pan Nalin’s documentary “Faith Connections” examines the annual Kumbh Mela festival, which draws millions of Hindu pilgrims to a town in northern India.
“Altina” tracks the life of a tobacco heiress, artist and inventor who refused to be hemmed in by convention.
“Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire in the 60s” is Tom Hayes’s film about his father’s time as editor of the magazine.
“The Pirates,” directed by Lee Seok-hoon, is an action comedy that takes place on the high seas at the start of the Joseon dynasty.
“Alumbrones,” a documentary by Bruce Donnelly, focuses on Cuban artists whose creative lives have been defined by scarcity.
In “My Old Lady,” a failed American playwright inherits a splendid Paris apartment, but French law gives his tenant the upper hand.
The documentary “Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity” uses performance and rehearsal footage to help profile this choreographer.
Dan Stevens, best known as the valiant Matthew Crawley in “Downton Abbey,” is going against type in a variety of new roles.
As Gorgon Video plans back-catalog releases of old horror films featuring the original cover art, its production chief discusses some of the more eye-popping images.
Charting the final, exhausted collapse of the adult white male, from Huck Finn to “Mad Men.”
Memories stirred about the cousins who founded the Cannon Group, which released films with stars like Bo Derek and Charles Bronson, weren’t warm and fuzzy.
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William M. Pohlad, a movie producer and heir to a family fortune, hopes his second feature film directing effort in 24 years, a biopic about the Beach Boy Brian Wilson, is a charm.
Michael R. Roskam discusses a sequence from his film.
The Brooklyn filmmaker discusses his documentary about his quest to better understand his voice.
The director discusses her drama “The Riot Club,” about a secret, misbehaving group of Oxford students.
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The writer and director Ned Benson narrates a sequence from his drama “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them.”
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This guide includes links to the original reviews from the archives of The New York Times.
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