One Night in Miami
Dir. Regina King
This stagelike historical drama is about a meeting between Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Muhammad Ali, the night…
American Fiction
Dir. Cord Jefferson
On the one hand, American Fiction is a razor-sharp satire that pokes fun at the hypocrisy of the literary and…
A Dry White Season
Dir. Euzhan Palcy
Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a patriarch of an upper-class white family insulated from the roiling protests and violence…
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Dir. Marielle Heller
A non-comedic Melissa McCarthy stars in this movie based on a true story. She plays author Lee Israel who after…
Fargo
Taking the violence and offbeat comedy of the original movie and adding constantly expanding narratives on top of it, Noah…
Barton Fink
Dir. Joel Coen
Barton Fink is remarkable for many reasons, the most immediate of which is its style. Fink’s Hollywood, contrary to most…
The Brutalist
Dir. Brady Corbet
Just a few minutes in, you can already feel the immensity of The Brutalist. The rousing score stirs you. The…
A Simple Plan
Dir. Sam Raimi
A Simple Plan, directed by Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man) is a psychological thriller that follows two brothers and…
The Florida Project
Dir. Sean Baker
Every once in a while there are movies that expand the definition of quality film-making. This is one of those…
Little Children
Dir. Todd Field
A triple Oscar-nominated drama which explores how ambiguous our roles in society can be. While categorized as “adults”, a number…
Foxcatcher
Dir. Bennett Miller
From the director of Moneyball, Foxcatcher is a true-story-based thriller centered around Olympic wrestlers and brothers Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and…
Quiz Show
Dir. Robert Redford
Long before we became accustomed to oxymorons like “scripted reality” shows, there was a time when viewers could expect to…
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Dir. Andrew Dominik
Robert Ford is an aspiring gangster who idolizes Jesse James, leader of the notorious James gang. When that admiration reaches…
Sexy Beast
Dir. Jonathan Glazer
In his debut feature, Jonathan Glazer masterfully subverts our expectations of heist movies to thrilling effect: what should be a…
Belfast
Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Belfast stars Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe as the mother of a working-class Northern Irish family during The Troubles. Religious tension and…
Doubt
Dir. John Patrick Shanley
The 2008 film Doubt offers a haunting peek into the crisis of pedophilia within the Catholic church. Featuring an all-star…
Sexy Beast
The 2000s film Sexy Beast, is already a niche entry in the crime comedy genre, so if you’re going to…
One Night in Miami…
Dir. Female director & Regina King
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay’s defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke…
The Messenger
Dir. Oren Moverman
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification…
12 Monkeys
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing…
The Cooler
Dir. Wayne Kramer
Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around…
Shadow of the Vampire
Dir. E. Elias Merhige
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film “Nosferatu.”
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dir. Woody Allen
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker…
In America
Dir. Jim Sheridan
A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell’s Kitchen while also grieving the death…
Do the Right Thing
Dir. Spike Lee
Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when…
In the Name of the Father
Dir. Jim Sheridan
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and…
Nocturnal Animals
Dir. Tom Ford
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for…
A History of Violence
Dir. David Cronenberg
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.