We Grown Now
Dir. Minhal Baig
Places evoke certain emotions, but even the most rundown, cramped projects feel special when they’re home. We Grown Now is…
Janet Planet
Dir. Annie Baker
Many films have been made about that uniquely taut mother-daughter bond, but maybe none is as delicate as Janet Planet.…
Murina
Dir. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
A young woman’s coming-of-age threatens to topple the uneasy hierarchy of her family in this striking debut from Croatian director…
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Dir. Eliza Hittman
This difficult movie is about a seventeen-year-old from the U.S. underclass who has to deal with an unplanned pregnancy. Autumn…
We the Animals
Dir. Jeremiah Zagar
Three half-Puerto-Rican, half-white boys grow up in suburban New York in this personal movie shot on stunning 16mm film. This…
Columbus
Dir. Kogonada
What goes well with a love story? Creative architecture. Columbus the movie is such a great and genuine exploration of…
Down by Law
Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Sometimes, in life, we’re forced to be with people we don’t immediately get along with, like in the classroom, the…
Hard Eight
Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Already featuring some of the desperation and melancholy that would go on to characterize most of his work, Paul Thomas…
Powwow Highway
Dir. Jonathan Wacks
When the wider culture doesn’t treat you the same way they treat the majority, it’s sometimes necessary to get mad,…
Man Push Cart
Dir. Ramin Bahrani
We rarely think about the lives of the people around us, but more so the lives of the people who’ve…
True Stories
Dir. David Byrne
When artists or musical bands make films, it’s usually a tour documentary or a biopic of some sort, where fans…
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
With the powerful duo of queer aesthetics and rock n roll, Hedwig and the Angry Inch questions the duality between…
Shattered Glass
Dir. Billy Ray
Shattered Glass tells the unbelievably true story of Stephen Glass, a popular and promising young journalist at The New Republic.…
Sin Nombre
Dir. Cary Fukunaga & Cary Joji Fukunaga
A foreign film on par with City of God, and carrying its heritage of naturalistic performances and raw stories. Sin Nombre will take…
American Honey
Dir. Andrea Arnold & 安德里亚·阿诺德
British filmmaker extraordinaire Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) draws the perfect portrait of two young American drifters who fall in love.…
Stand and Deliver
Dir. Ramón Menéndez
Education isn’t always a guarantee, especially in less privileged areas that are underfunded, overlooked, and underprioritized, in the belief that…
Eat Drink Man Woman
Dir. Ang Lee
Eat Drink Man Woman takes place in Taipei, Taiwan in the mid-1990s. It tells the story of an aging father…
Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Dir. Chloé Zhao
This slow-burning drama is set in an Indigenous reservation in South Dakota, where Johnny is a teenager who dreams of…
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
This is a really weird movie starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman. They play a wholesome and well-off couple where…
Lust, Caution
Dir. Ang Lee
During wartime, war supersedes everything, including love. Wartime would have people ending relationships, forgoing potential dates, and seducing enemies to…
Midsommar
Dir. Ari Aster
You may have heard about this 2019 critic-favorite from clips like this one of a kid running to flee the…
Selma
Dir. Ava DuVernay
The award-winning third feature by director Ava DuVernay, Selma, was released around the 50th anniversary of the historically significant marches…
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Dir. Pham Thien An
As a sluggishly paced, three-hour spiritual drama with little dialogue and even less plot, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell certainly…
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Dir. Raven Jackson
Painfully intimate and told with very, very little dialogue, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt resembles the experience of flipping…
Light Sleeper
Dir. Paul Schrader
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even…