These looks at what’s on the big screen in the coming week include reviews for “Drive My Car” and “Flee,” an animated doc joined by another boundary-pushing animated film, “Cryptozoo” at The Brattle, by the more traditional “Mitchells vs. the Machines” and more cinema from “Atlantis” to Taiwan.

These looks at what’s on the big screen and streaming in the coming week include reviews for “Scream,” “The Whaler Boy” and “Shattered,” as well as the gems coming to The Brattle and Somerville Theatre, from some of the best of 2021 to the new “Days,” “About Endlessness,” “In the Earth” and “Censor.”

After six decades, Pedro Almodóvar is finally ready to confront the trauma of his country’s former fascism head-on. The pleasingly soapy result will be poignant even for viewers unfamiliar with the history that provides the backdrop for the personal stories.

If you have a child who loves movies and aspires to be a film critic, join Cambridge Day film editor Tom Meek this weekend for an online Junior Film Critic’s Workshop as part of the Belmont World Film Festival.

These looks at what’s on the big screen and streaming in the coming week include reviews for “A Hero,” “The 355” and “American Siege” as well as Brattle films such as Nobuhiko Obayashi’s “Labyrinth of Cinema” and its ongoing “Refreshed, Renewed, Restored” program. We also remember Peter Bogdanovich and Sidney Poitier.

There was a mix of big- and small-screen cinema in 2021 – and even some simultaneous streamers, such as “Dune” – and the best of the year includes three each from Netflix and Hulu that for a while you could catch in an actual movie theater (if you weren’t too afraid of catching something else).

These looks at what’s on the big screen and streaming include “The World of Wong Kar Wai,” “Weird Wednesdays” and classics for New Year’s at The Brattle, as well as reviews of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Red Rocket,” “The Tender Bar,” “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “Swan Song” and “The Unforgivable.”

Like “Boogie Nights,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” is a love letter to a very specific time and place – Southern California in the 1970s – and an alluring hodgepodge of adolescent misadventures peppered with odd appearances by big names of the era.

The original “Matrix” broke ground in action filmmaking and intrigued with its plays on Eastern philosophies in essentially a simple story of war between humans and machines. For fans who were only semi-warmed by “Reloaded” and let down by “Revolutions,” these “Resurrections” may be just the remedy.

These looks at what’s on the big screen and streaming include the homegrown zombie flick “Apple Cinema,” filmed by Conor Holway in, of course, Cambridge’s own Apple Cinemas; Christmas films for wide-ranging tastes; “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Wong Kar Wai and more at The Brattle; and reviews of a great “West Side Story” and less-than-great “Fortress.”