Movie recommendations from critics Justin Chang and Kenneth Turan.

American Animals

This based-on-fact story of how a quartet of bored college kids looking for kicks and meaning in their lives plans a rare book robbery is one of the summer’s freshest and most entertaining films. (Kenneth Turan) R

First Reformed

A conflicted reverend (a superb Ethan Hawke) undergoes a profound crisis of faith in Paul Schrader’s soul-searching, careerresurrecting drama, a tribute to the contemplative cinema of Robert Bresson and Yasujiro Ozu that moves to the pulse of a thriller. (Justin Chang) R

Hearts Beat Loud

A musical in everything but name, this joining of stars Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons features some terrific songs and proof that sometimes wearing your heart on your sleeve is the only way to go. (Kenneth Turan) PG-13

Incredibles 2

There is good news in the world tonight: Writerdirector Brad Bird has brought everyone’s favorite superhero family back to the big screen, and we are all better off for it. (Kenneth Turan) PG

Hereditary

Anchored by a bravura performance from Toni Collette, writer-director Ari Aster’s devastating, implacably terrifying film depicts an American family coming apart in the wake of tragedy. (Justin Chang) R

A Quiet Place

John Krasinski’s thrillingly intelligent post-apocalyptic horror movie, in which he stars with Emily Blunt as a couple trying to protect their family from monsters that hunt by sound, is walking-on-eggshells cinema of a very high order. (Justin Chang) PG-13

RBG

One of the great services that this clear-eyed and

admiring documentary on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg provides is to emphasize not just her work on the court but also how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got there. (Kenneth Turan) NR

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

The goal of this exemplary documentary is not to tell the story of TV host Fred Rogers’ life but to show the way someone whose formidable task was, in his own words, “to make goodness attractive,” and made it happen. (Kenneth Turan) PG-13

Wilson Webb Orchard EVAN PETERS, 31, in “American Animals” as a college student who pretends to be older for a robbery.