To Sleep with Anger
Dir. Charles Burnett
An old friend shows up on the doorstep of a happy family home and brings a whirlwind of trouble with…
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…
sex, lies, and videotape
Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Remarkably, Steven Soderbergh was only 26 years old when he directed this coolly assured debut, the searingly candid script of…
Far From Heaven
Dir. Todd Haynes
Anyone who’s seen All That Heaven Allows will naturally be skeptical that a movie claiming to be an homage to…
If Beale Street Could Talk
Dir. Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins’ follow up to his award-winning film Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk is a highly compelling tale that…
The Visitor
Dir. Eran Kolirin & Tom McCarthy
This is a low-scale, intimate, almost minimalist movie that speaks volumes about the misconceptions that westerners have regarding the Middle-East. And…
Uncut Gems
Dir. Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie
A crazy, anxiety-inducing thriller that turns Adam Sandler into a thrill-generating machine, which in its own speaks volumes about the…
One False Move
Dir. Carl Franklin
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals — Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto — travel from Los…
The Visitor
Dir. Tom McCarthy
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his…
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what’s important to her…
Lost in Translation
Dir. Sofia Coppola
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo — the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a…
Brokeback Mountain
Dir. Ang Lee
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their…
12 Years a Slave
Dir. Steve McQueen
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold…
Sideways
Dir. Alexander Payne
Best friends Miles and Jack are off to wine country to celebrate Jack’s last week of freedom before he gets…
The Artist
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius
What was popular back then isn’t popular today for a reason. In film, that’s because the technology’s improved, the audience…