Senna director Asif Kapadia unpacks the mysteries of Amy Winehouse’s tragic life with a heartbreaking documentary that exposes the toxic influences around her, and the mysteries at the core of her music. 

A sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s hit film about male strippers entertainers delivers the goods on a bigger, looser, just-as-entertaining scale.

Goodbye First Love director Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest offers an elliptical look at a rise and fall story that draws on the life of her brother, a French DJ who worked the scene with Daft Punk but never found tremendous success.

Writer-director Craig Goodwill’s twisted, big-hearted comic fantasy delves into the dark, violent origins of Cabbage Patch Kids and the people who operate the sweatshops that produce them. 

Mark Rydell’s 1979 rock melodrama, loosely inspired by Janis Joplin, features a star-making performance by Bette Midler as a beleaguered singer, and electrifying stage footage by ace cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. 

The Barden University Bellas are back in a sequel that mirrors the problem with these a cappella big shots: They’re more concerned about giving the people what they want than doing what made them a success in the first place.

The 1983 musical Eddie And The Cruisers fell way, way short of its ambitions as a rock-’n’-roll Citizen Kane, but when the soundtrack took off a year after the film flopped, Eddie got an equally clunky but entertaining sequel.

The 1983 musical Eddie And The Cruisers fell way, way short of its ambitions as a rock-’n’-roll Citizen Kane, but when the soundtrack took off a year after the film flopped, Eddie got an equally clunky but entertaining sequel.

Anna Kendrick steals the show in this adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s hit off-Broadway musical.

Chicago director Rob Marshall isn’t up to the daunting challenge of bringing Stephen Sondheim’s fairy-tale musical opus to life onscreen, but the cast has enough musical-theater chops to carry much of it across anyway. 

Will Gluck’s musical doesn’t adapt the familiar Little Orphan Annie of the 1930s to present-day Harlem all that gracefully, but Quvenzhané Wallis’ preternatural charm does a lot to compensate.