I’m not prepared to call Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria” the best film in this year’s competition, but it is the one that came closest to stopping time. I’ll confess that, at first, I found it a demanding sit. Weerasethakul, who won the 2010 Palme d’Or for “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” and who…

“Schmigadoon!” is a bit of theater kid magic that starts by expanding the concept of “Brigadoon” into a whole musical-verse. But instead of a Van Johnson and Gene Kelly venturing into a singing town of people apparently stuck in time, it’s Melissa (Cecily Strong) and her boyfriend Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) who wander from a couple’s therapy hike…

A little bit of trauma goes a long way in “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions,” a good enough sequel to the underwhelming horror thriller “Escape Room.” In “Escape Room,” a group of teenagers are abducted and forced to solve a chain of deadly logic puzzles. If they succeed, the surviving teens enter the next themed…

“Schmigadoon!” is a loving tribute to and parody of classic musicals from “Oklahoma” to “The Music Man,” “Carousel, “The Sound of Music,” and of course “Brigadoon,” the story of two men who find a magical town, which inspires its name. The six episode series on AppleTV+ stars Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as doctors feeling…

Back in 2017, the American independent director Sean Baker came to Cannes with “The Florida Project,” which emerged from the festival as perhaps that year’s most widely acclaimed film. (Certainly it was less divisive than the Palme d’Or winner, “The Square.”) A year before that, the French filmmaker Julia Ducournau made a mark with “Raw,” about…

Wait, when did everyone get a “-verse” to encompass all of their IP? I get it that the MCU was a way to bring together the different Marvel characters, and the Spider-verse was a way to bring the alternate universe versions of Spider-Man into one story. But around the time that the flying monkeys from…