Terrestrial Verses
Dir. Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami
Since we live in a society, interacting with authority is inescapable. Terrestrial Verses depict fairly mundane day-to-day interactions– getting a…
Pictures of Ghosts
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
Like people, places have things that change and things that remain the same. Most of us keep our thoughts about…
La Chimera
Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
La Chimera is often meandering. Scenes flitter about and move at different paces, resembling dreams more than they do reality,…
R.M.N.
Set in a small town in Romania, R.M.N. is a challenging slow-burn that explores what happens to an insular community…
The Passenger
Dir. Carter Smith
More psychological drama than bloody horror, The Passenger focuses on its two leads, Randy (Johnny Berchtold) and Benson (Kyle Gallner),…
The Promised Land
Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
In The Promised Land, director Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) and Mads Mikkelsen reunite to create another intense, enjoyable drama…
The Old Oak
Dir. Ken Loach
Renowned British director Ken Loach’s signature traits are present in The Old Oak: simple, humanistic, and unapologetically hopeful. But this…
All That Breathes
Dir. Shaunak Sen
Though it doesn’t proceed like most animal/nature-centered documentaries that you’ve seen, the Oscar-nominated All That Breathes is instantly memorable in…
The Breaking Ice
Dir. Anthony Chen
When travelling to another place, another city, another town, there’s a certain anonymity that frees one’s self. No one knows…
Moonage Daydream
Dir. Brett Morgen
Forget everything you know about the music biopic. One-on-one interviews, chronological storytelling, silent moments with the subjects—Moonage Daydream isn’t that…
The Truffle Hunters
Dir. Gregory Kershaw & Michael Dweck
With truffle being so expensive, you would think that the world would eventually figure out how to get this tasty…
The Innocents
Dir. Eskil Vogt
The Innocents is a Norweigan thriller that follows four kids who discover they have supernatural powers over the summer. They…
Small Axe
This impressive body of work defies any classification: it’s a collection of five films that have been put together into…
Zappa
Dir. Alex Winter
Frank Zappa’s creative scope could barely be defined – a mix of rock, composition, design, and in his early days…
True Mothers
Dir. Naomi Kawase
While adoption doesn’t have the same stigma as it did back in the day, it doesn’t mean that the process…
Asako I & II
Dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Asako is in love with Baku—deeply and almost delusionally, in a way that can only manifest in young love. But…
Bad Education
Dir. Cory Finley
Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, and Ray Romano star in this true story of a big academic corruption case. Hugh Jackman…
Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
Dir. Kaku Arakawa
At first, you wonder, couldn’t this behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Boy and The Heron just be a…
The Alienist
Dir. Jakob Verbruggen
Adapted from Caleb Carr’s blockbuster crime novel, The Alienist follows a team of amateur investigators in 1896 New York: Daniel…
A Summer's Tale
Dir. Éric Rohmer
The sunniest installment of Éric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons series is a sly, slow burn of a character…
Better Things
This bittersweet comedy centers on Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon), a single mother and working actress doing her best to get…
The Blue Caftan
Dir. Maryam Touzani
Set in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas, Blue Caftan is a tender portrayal of pure love and the different forms…
