“Belfast” presents itself as a family photo album: Violence may intrude, but it doesn’t crowd out the Christmas pictures.

“King Richard” charts how Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams, made good on the promise few believed possible.

This is not a movie about crime and punishment, but damage and recovery.

“Tick, Tick … Boom!” is also a soul-deep tribute by Lin-Manuel Miranda to an artist who inspired him at a formative age.

Frank Herbert’s beloved novel has enough material that should preclude the kind of dead space that inhabits so much of this “Dune.”

“Mass” captures perfectly this experience of tragic loss, from two radically different perspectives.