The year’s barely half over and already it’s been an unusual one for moviegoers. Gen Z filmmakers have scored megahits with their feature debuts (“Obsession,” “Backrooms”), expected megahits have done just OK (“The Mandalorian and Grogu”) and established hitmakers like Steven Spielberg have proved divisive.

今年才刚过去近一半，但对影迷来说，这已经是一个不同寻常的年份了。Z世代导演凭借长片处女作（《迷恋》、《后室》）斩获了极大的成功，备受期待的大片表现却只能算中规中矩（《曼达洛人与古古》），史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格这样成名已久的爆款制造者则引发了分歧。

I asked our chief film critic, Manohla Dargis, and our movie critic, Alissa Wilkinson, to recommend releases you might want to catch up with this summer.

我邀请了我们的首席影评人曼诺拉·达吉斯和电影评论员阿丽莎·威尔金森，推荐一些你可能想在今年夏天补看的影片。

‘Disclosure Day’

《揭秘日》(Disclosure Day)

In theaters.

院线上映中。

The story: In this Spielberg blockbuster, Josh O’Connor is an Edward Snowden-like figure who has stolen files with evidence of extraterrestrials. Emily Blunt is a weathercaster with the sudden ability to speak other languages, including one that aliens understand. The two team up when they find themselves on the run from the authorities who are desperate to prevent the truth from being revealed. Online, commenters have taken issue with some of the plot twists, but both of our critics wanted to include it in this list.

故事梗概：在这部斯皮尔伯格的大片中，乔什·奥康纳饰演了一个类似于爱德华·斯诺登的人物，他偷走了包含外星人存在证据的文件。艾米莉·布朗特则饰演一名气象播报员，突然获得了说其他语言的能力，其中包括一种外星人能听懂的语言。当两人发现自己正在躲避极力想阻止真相被揭露的官方追捕时，他们结成了同盟。在网络上，评论者们对其中的一些剧情反转提出了异议，但我们的两位影评人都坚持将它列入这份名单。

Manohla Dargis’s take: “Spielberg isn’t straining to wow you. He reached the summit a while ago, which gives you latitude to get in his groove and have a good time.” As for the performances, “O’Connor’s yielding softness works contrapuntally with Blunt’s crispness.” Read the review.

曼诺拉·达吉斯的评价：“斯皮尔伯格并没有刻意去惊艳你。他很久以前就登顶了，这让你有足够的余地融入他的节奏并享受一段美好时光。”至于演员的表现，“奥康纳展现出的柔和感与布朗特的利落感形成了奇妙的对位。”阅读完整影评。

‘The Christophers’

《克里斯托弗们》(The Christophers)

Rent it on most major platforms.

可在大部分主要平台上租借观看。

The story: The title refers to a series of paintings that made the artist Julian (Ian McKellen) famous. Now that he is in his twilight years, his children have a scheme involving Lori (Michaela Coel), an artist in her own right but one who can’t make a living from her work. They want her to sign on as Julian’s assistant and forge new paintings under his name. Steven Soderbergh directed.

故事梗概：片名指的是让艺术家朱利安（伊恩·麦克莱恩饰）一举成名的一系列画作。如今他已步入暮年，他的孩子们设计了一个计划，把洛里（米凯拉·科尔饰）卷了进来。洛里本身也是一位艺术家，但无法靠自己的作品维持生计。他们希望她作为朱利安的助手签约，并以他的名义伪造新的画作。本片由史蒂文·索德伯格执导。

Alissa Wilkinson’s take: This is “a sparkling, funny, wise movie about two painters, both of whom consider themselves failures.” The performances especially stand out: “I have rarely enjoyed watching two actors’ rapport the way I loved watching McKellen and Coel; it could have gone on forever and not been long enough.” Read the review.

阿丽莎·威尔金森的评价：这是一部“关于两位画家的灵动、幽默且富有智慧的电影，他们两人都认为自己是失败者”。演员们的对手戏尤为瞩目：“我极少像喜爱看麦克莱恩和科尔那样享受看两位演员之间的默契配合；一直就这么演下去都不会觉得冗长。”阅读完整影评。

‘Exit 8’

《八号出口》(Exit 8)

Rent it on most major platforms.

可在大多数主要平台上租借观看。

The story: A zoned-out commuter who wasn’t paying attention to his surroundings finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine halls of a Tokyo train station. The film, based on a video game, recalls movies as different as “The Shining” and “Groundhog Day.”

故事梗概：一个心不在焉、没有留意周围环境的通勤者发现自己被困在东京地铁迷宫般的走廊里。这部改编自电子游戏的电影让人联想到《闪灵》和《土拨鼠之日》等风格迥异的影片。

Dargis’s take: “‘Exit 8’ is a pip and as fun to watch as it is to mull over. Smoothly directed by Genki Kawamura, who shares script credit with Kentaro Hirase, it will be familiar to anyone who’s a fan of puzzles, has watched Christopher Nolan’s movies, read the myth of the Minotaur, knows something about cognitive behavioral therapy or has just watched a lot of genre movies.” Read the review.

达吉斯的评价：“《八号出口》非常出色，无论是观看还是回味都趣味无穷。影片由川村元气执导，他与平濑谦太郎共同署名编剧。任何喜爱解谜、看过克里斯托弗·诺兰电影、读过弥诺陶洛斯神话、对认知行为疗法有所了解或者只是看过大量类型片的观众都会对本片感到熟悉。”阅读完整影评。

‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’

《28年后：骨庙》(28 Years Later: The Bone Temple)

Stream it on Netflix; rent it on most major platforms.

可在网飞(Netflix)观看；也可在大多数主要平台上租借观看。

The story: The director Nia DaCosta picks up the saga that began in 2003 with “28 Days Later,” when a viral pandemic caused the breakdown of society. This installment focuses on two figures: Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes), who thinks an infected man may be curable, and Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell), an evil trickster figure inciting his followers to horrific violence.

故事梗概：导演妮亚·达科斯塔延续了自2003年《28天后》开启的萨迦传奇，当时一场病毒大流行导致了社会的崩溃。本集聚焦于两个人物：凯尔森博士（拉尔夫·费因斯饰），他认为一名感染者可能还有救；以及吉米·克里斯特尔（杰克·奥康奈尔饰），一个煽动其追随者进行恐怖暴力的邪恶骗子人物。

Wilkinson’s take: “DaCosta’s talents as a director are a terrific, confident match for this material,” and the film relies on “some good old-fashioned gore, plus a few scenes I can only describe as fully, pyrotechnically metal. (One in particular, and you’ll know it when you see it, provoked a near-standing ovation at my screening.) The actors are going full throttle, too.” Read the review.

威尔金森的评价：“达科斯塔作为导演的才华与这些素材形成了极佳且自信的契合，”并且影片依赖于“一些优秀的老派血腥场面，外加几场我只能形容为完全、极具视觉冲击力的硬核金属风格戏份（尤其是其中一场，你一看到就会心领神会，在我的那场放映中它引发了全场近乎起立鼓掌的轰动）。演员们同样在全力以赴。”阅读完整影评。

‘Yes’

《是的》(Yes)

Rent it on most major platforms.

可在大多数主要平台上租借观看。

The New York Times

The story: In this vicious satire of Israeli society from Nadav Lapid, the ambitious Y and his wife, Jasmine, are entertainers so eager to get ahead that they cozy up to the country’s power elite as war rages in Gaza.

故事梗概The story: Told in part from the point of view of 8-year-old Sasha, the film follows her family’s move from Hungary to Vancouver Island in the 1990s and her older half-brother Jeremy’s increasingly precarious behavior. This debut feature by Sophy Romvari blends her own history with fiction.

故事梗概：影片部分以8岁的萨沙的视角叙述，讲述了上世纪90年代她的家庭从匈牙利搬到温哥华岛的经历，以及她的同母异父哥哥杰里米日益危险的行为。这部由索菲·罗姆瓦里执导的长片处女作将她的个人经历与虚构融合在了一起。

Wilkinson’s take: “It can be tempting to tell stories about broken families and mental health struggles with a gloss of romantic fatalism, but there’s none of that here — just an aching desire to understand what Jeremy was experiencing” and why Sasha’s “parents made the choices they did.” Read the review.

威尔金森的评价：“在讲述关于破碎家庭和心理健康挣扎的故事时，人们往往容易给它刷上一层浪漫宿命论的光泽，但这里完全没有这些——有的只是渴望去理解杰里米当时所经历的一切，”以及萨沙的父母为何“做出那样的选择”。阅读完整影评。

‘Pompei: Below the Clouds’

《庞贝：云层之下》(Pompei: Below the Clouds)

Stream it on Mubi.

可在穆比(Mubi)观看。

The story: This documentary by Gianfranco Rosi focuses on the area around the Italian volcano Vesuvius. Though there is no narration, individual voices including those of an archaeologist and a prosecutor, help paint a picture of the region.

故事梗概：这部由吉安弗兰科·罗西执导的纪录片聚焦于意大利维苏威火山周边的地区。尽管全片没有旁白，但包括一名考古学家和一名检察官在内的个体声音勾勒出了该地区的画面。

Dargis’s take: Rosi “has an unerring compositional sense and his images are harmoniously balanced without being fetishistically precise. He shot the movie himself in exquisite black-and-white (he also did the sound work), a choice that summons up the past, yet, because his approach is dynamic, never tips into nostalgia.” Read the review.

达吉斯的评价：罗西“拥有敏锐的构图意识，他的画面和谐平衡，却不流于刻板的精准。他亲自用精致的黑白胶片拍摄了这部电影（他还负责了音效工作），这一选择唤起了过去，但因其充满动感的手法绝未陷入怀旧之中”。阅读完整影评。

‘Seeds’

《种子》(Seeds)

In theaters.

院线上映中。

The story: This black-and-white documentary focuses on the plight of Black farmers like Willie Head Jr. and Carlie Williams, who struggle to make a living. Though it explores issues like the slow rollout of a federal fund for them devised by the Biden administration, the film is really about a way of life and includes scenes of singing at church and time spent at home.

故事梗概：这部黑白纪录片聚焦于小威利·海德和卡利·威廉姆斯等黑人农民的困境，他们正艰难地维持生计。尽管影片探讨了由拜登政府设计、旨在向他们提供帮助的联邦基金落实缓慢等问题，但这部电影真正关注的是一种生活方式，包含了在教堂歌唱以及在家中度过时光的场景。

Wilkinson’s take: “Brittany Shyne’s extraordinarily beautiful” film isn’t journalistic. “It’s something more like a softly sung ballad, handed down from generation to generation. For men like Head and Williams, the struggle to keep land in the family and make a living is about preserving the past and creating the future.” Read the review.

威尔金森的评价：“布列塔尼·夏恩这部非同凡响、优美至极”的电影并非新闻纪实风格。“它更像是一首轻声传唱、代代相传的民谣。对于像海德和威廉姆斯这样的男人来说，守护家族土地并维持生计的挣扎，事关留存过去与创造未来。”阅读完整影评。

‘Miroirs No. 3’

《镜子三号》(Miroirs No. 3)

Rent on most major platforms.

可在大多数主要平台上租借观看。

The story: In the director Christian Petzold’s loose variation on “Vertigo,” a woman who has survived a deadly car crash in the German countryside convalesces at the home of a stranger, who begins to remake her in the image of another woman.

故事梗概：在导演克里斯蒂安·佩措尔德对《迷魂记》做出的松散改编中，一名在德国乡间的致命车祸中幸存下来的女性在陌生人的家中疗养，而这个陌生人开始按照另一个女人的形象来重新塑造她。

Dargis’s take: Such “cinematic allusions are catnip to film lovers, and while they’re pleasurable to consider, they’re so delicately woven into the story that they never distract from the characters or the emotion, or edge into directorial cleverness.” Read the review.

达吉斯的评价：这样的“电影致敬对于影迷来说是无法抗拒的，虽然思索它们令人愉悦，但它们如此细腻地交织在故事中，以至于绝不会分散对角色或情感的注意力，也不会流于对导演机智巧思的展示”。阅读完整影评。

‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’

《全员集结肯缪尔街》(Everybody to Kenmure Street)

The story: Set in Glasgow in 2021, this documentary looks at what happened when immigration enforcement authorities tried to arrest two Indian nationals who had lived in the community for a decade. Neighbors and other protesters, eventually totaling some 2,000 people, showed up and demanded the pair be freed.

故事梗概：本片背景设定在2021年的格拉斯哥，这部纪录片回顾了当移民执法当局企图逮捕两名已在社区生活了十年的印度人时发生的故事。邻居们和其它抗议者——最终总计约2000人——赶到现场并要求释放二人。

Wilkinson’s take: Directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra, a resident of the area himself, “‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’ is an exceptional documentary, both in the story it tells and in the way it tells it, about what happened that day. Read the review

威尔金森的评价：本片由居住在该地区的费利佩·布斯托斯·谢拉执导，“《全员集结肯缪尔街》是一部出类拔萃的纪录片，无论是在它讲述的故事还是在它讲述故事的方式上，都清晰展现了那天发生的事情。”阅读完整影评。