Now, two decades on, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” gets the narrative treatment, care of a frazzled, unfocused biopic that, again, leans into stories so crazy that they must be true, as led by the indomitable charms of a woman without peer. Michael Showalter’s film — also, somewhat confusingly, titled “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” — initially opens with the facts, including archival footage from the early days of the so-called “Pearlygate” drama that effectively ended the Bakkers’ careers (and marriage), before moving squarely into Tammy Faye’s (Jessica Chastain) line of vision....

There are many examples of what Sarah Silverman called “Jewface” on her podcast last year. (A representative from the Anti-Defamation League declined to comment for this piece, though they may have bigger fish to fry right now.) We’ve watched Adam Driver go hard in “BlacKkKlansman” and Rachel Brosnahan bring that shiksa sparkle to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” In “Shiva Baby,” the biggest surprise is that Dianna Agron is Jewish and Rachel Sennott is not....

At home afterward, Jimmy (Moustapha Mbengue), sarcastically compliments his wife on the show and points out that anyone who witnessed it would know what it symbolized. Joana explodes. It has been suggested by her needling father that she and Jimmy are not having sex. The lack of passion in her life, contrasted with the touch-paper lit by Julia’s return, cause her to lose all composure, yelling at Jimmy, until he pushes her out of the room....

The surreal genius of David Lowery’s “filmed adaptation of the chivalric romance by anonymous” (to quote the on-screen text) is that it fully embraces the unresolved nature of its 14th century source material, contradictory interpretations of which have coexisted in relative harmony for more than half a millennium. Is it a paganistic tale about the fall of man, or is it a Christ-like quest about the hope for salvation? Does it bow to chivalry as a noble bulwark against man’s true nature, or does it laugh at the idea that a knight’s code would ever be a sound defense against his deeper urges?...

Season 5, Episode 4, “Dear Offred” puts Janine in an impossible position with painfully sinister implications. After being poisoned by Esther (McKenna Grace) in the previous episode, she recovers and appears to be more precious than ever to Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd). Lydia, ever the pious manipulator, entreats the fragile Janine to be her eyes and ears among the handmaids moving forward. “Will you watch over them and tell me when any of them are struggling?...

“The Harder They Fall,” the highly anticipated all-Black Western that debuted on Netflix November 3, is a fictionalized tale that features real-life Black pioneers of the Wild West. Watching the film will make you want to learn more about these trailblazing figures, so we did a little of the work for you. Below, find books about Nat Love, Stagecoach Mary, Rufus Buck, and others portrayed in the Jeymes Samuel–directed film starring Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, LaKeith Stanfield, Regina King, and Delroy Lindo....

Every film made in response to 9/11 is a horror film in one way or another, but none of them — from the unbearable simulation of “United 93” to the eerie found footage of “Cloverfield” and the chilling-that-this-was-nominated-for-Best-Picture-ness of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” — have spoken the genre’s common tongue more fluently than “The Humans.” And yet, for a movie which opens with a thunderous jump-scare that it follows with another solid jolt every few minutes before ending with the year’s most pitch-black sequence of pure terror, the biggest shock of all might be that Stephen Karam’s debut feature is so conventionally scary in the first place....