“A Christmas Tale,” the new feature by the French director Arnaud Desplechin, is haunted by the ghosts of holiday movies past — and not just the ones you’d expect.
Azazel Jacobs’s “Momma’s Man,” a film about a grown son’s homecoming, is also a literal home movie, starring his own parents and shot in the loft where he grew up.
At 72, Koji Wakamatsu has made his most ambitious work, “United Red Army,” a look at the collapse of the Japanese militant student groups of the 1960s and ’70s.