With his squinting blue eyes and clean-shaven good looks, Mr. Heard embodied the stereotype of the 1980s businessman. He brought to the roles a mixture of flustered charm and self-assurance. Photo Mr. Heard with Catherine O’Hara in “Home Alone 2.” Credit Rex Features, via AP Images John Matthew Heard Jr. …

Photo A scene from Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk,” which focuses on a harrowing rescue effort during World War II. Credit Warner Bros. One of the most indelible images in “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan’s brilliant new film, is of a British plane in flames. The movie recounts an early, harrowing campaign in World …

Photo Ruth Ramos in “The Untamed.” Credit Strand Releasing Resolutely unsmiling and studiously austere, “The Untamed” behaves like a quiet horror movie with a lot on its mind. Its main characters, who live in the central Mexican city of Guanajuato, are young, gloomy, attractive men and women connected by friendship, …

Photo Aaron Glenane in “Killing Ground.” Credit John Platt/IFC Midnight “Killing Ground” features a man and a woman who make head-slappingly dumb choices as they flee from a pair of killers who are just as inept. Yet in the end, the most regrettable decision may be that of audience members …

Photo Jenny Slate, left, and Abby Quinn in “Landline.” Credit Linda Kallerus/Amazon Studios Nostalgia is not what it used to be. “Landline,” a fairly genial, diffident comedy about diffident, fairly generic people, plants its flag in 1995 and surveys a landscape of indie rock, “Must See TV” and the high-waisted …

Photo Donté Clark in the documentary “Romeo Is Bleeding.” Credit Rajiv Smith-Mahabir/The Film Collaborative “This ain’t got nothing to do with my life,” Donté Clark recalled thinking when, at 15, he picked up “Romeo and Juliet.” At 22, after years of seeing gang warfare and murder on the streets of …

Photo Jason Bateman in “Ozark.” Credit Jackson Davis/Netflix Have you been missing Walter White? Are nine-year-old “Breaking Bad” episodes not satisfying your hunger for angry, middle-aged, white male antiheroes? The people behind “Ozark,” a new Netflix series that starts streaming on Friday, appear to think so. Their antihero, Marty Byrde, …

Photo Catherine Deneuve, left, and Catherine Frot in “The Midwife.” Credit Michaal Crotto/Music Box Films Catherine Deneuve has played a wide variety of roles over the course of a career now spanning seven decades. But despite her exemplary range, many American viewers maintain an image of her as an aloof, …

Photo The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, in “The Pulitzer at 100.” Credit First Run Features Although the Pulitzer Prizes go to literature and drama, they still don’t recognize cinema. But adding movies to the list might only raise questions. Who would judge? Should fiction and documentary receive separate …

Photo Andrew Garfield in “Hacksaw Ridge.” Credit Mark Rogers/Lionsgate “Hacksaw Ridge,” Mel Gibson’s Oscar-nominated tale of wartime resistance, comes to HBO. And Joe Berlinger investigates an unsolved case of vanishing Ohio women. What’s on TV HACKSAW RIDGE (2016) 8 p.m. on HBO. Andrew Garfield earned an Oscar nod as Desmond …