Peter Hutton, Filmmaker With Austerely Romantic Worldview, Dies at 71

“Free State of Jones” results from the director Gary Ross’s research into a Reconstruction story, and he has a website to prove it.

Review: In ‘Finding Dory,’ a Forgetful Fish and a Warm Celebration of Differences
The friendly blue fish with short-term memory problems goes looking for her family and takes a star turn in this sequel to “Finding Nemo.”

Critic’s Notebook: Beyond the Multiplex: Brooklyn’s Show of Independent Film
BAMcinemaFest, which opens on Wednesday with Ira Sachs’s “Little Men,” again offers an intriguing lineup, including films by Todd Solondz and Werner Herzog.

Scene Stealers: What a ‘Ghostbusters’ Online Attack Says About the Digital Age
A man whose YouTube channel has 2.1 million subscribers took aim at the new “Ghostbusters,” and an online furor followed.

Tips From Daniel Radcliffe on How to Play Dead
He spoke about his role in “Swiss Army Man,” in which he plays a zombie-esque character who helps out Paul Dano, who is stranded on a deserted island.

‘Swiss Army Man,’ the Strangest Movie Shown at Sundance?
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s “Swiss Army Man” is an absurd bromance in which one of the bros — played by Daniel Radcliffe — appears to be dead.

Bill Murray to Receive the Mark Twain Prize for Humor
The “Saturday Night Live” alumnus and comic actor will be presented with the award at the Kennedy Center in October.

‘Conjuring 2’ Beats This Year’s Curse of Summer Sequels
The film was No. 1 with the expensive “Warcraft,” a hit overseas, coming in a distant second in North America.

MoMA Apologizes for Dropping a Film Critical of North Korea
The museum says a curator was wrong to uninvite “Under the Sun,” a documentary denounced by North Korea for its depiction of that country’s image control.

Tibet Stands Out in China’s Entries at Shanghai International Film Festival
“De Lan,” by the director Liu Jie, and “Soul on a String,” by Zhang Yang, highlight a shift in the cinematic depiction of ethnic minorities, especially Tibetans.

Movie Review: ‘Warcraft’
The Times critic Manohla Dargis reviews “Warcraft.”

Movie Review: ‘Tikkun’
The Times critic A.O. Scott reviews “Tikkun.”

Movie Review: ‘The Music of Strangers’
The Times critic Ken Jaworowski reviews “The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.”

Film About Russian Lawyer’s Death Creates an Uproar
Critics are trying to block a Washington screening of a documentary that portrays Sergei L. Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison cell, as an accomplice rather than a victim.

Movie Listings for June 10-16

Review: ‘The Music of Strangers,’ on Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
Morgan Neville’s documentary follows the ensemble and discusses the relevance of music in a violent world. Lovely to watch, it’s even more beautiful to hear.

Review: In ‘Therapy for a Vampire,’ the Count Really Wants to Change
Sigmund Freud takes a vampire as a patient in this comedy written and directed by David Ruehm.

This Week’s Movies: June 10, 2016
The New York Times film critics review “Warcraft,” “Tikkun” and “The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.”

Books of The Times: Review: Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi
“The World According to Star Wars” by Cass R. Sunstein is at once vast and sketchy, sometimes condescending, and explains too much and too little.

Review: ‘Call Her Applebroog,’ Beth B’s Portrait of a Still-Vital Artist
Beth B, Ida Applebroog’s daughter, takes an intimate look at the artist’s drawings, paintings and emphatic engagement with others.

Review: ‘Careful What You Wish For,’ Starring Nick Jonas as a Naïve Teenage Lover
Elizabeth Allen’s film casts Mr. Jonas as a boy who takes up with the beautiful woman next door in a summer idyll that proves anything but.

Review: In ‘Len and Company,’ a Prickly Pop Producer Finds His Solitude Interrupted
Rhys Ifans stars as a disaffected former rock star who retreats to the countryside after a meltdown, only to host some surprise guests with concerns of their own.

Review: ‘Germans & Jews,’ a New Generation Continues a Difficult Conversation
In Janina Quint’s documentary, a group of Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, most of them born after World War II, reckon with the past.

Review: ‘Puerto Ricans in Paris’ Combines Comedy and Crime
Two New York police officers get a break from their home lives when they are asked to help stop a counterfeiter in France.

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