Last Film Show
Dir. Pan Nalin
Like many coming-of-age films about films, it’s easy to assume that Last Film Show would be a derivative of all-time…
Mars Express
Dir. Jérémie Périn
The premise of Mars Express may not be novel, especially when films like Blade Runner have already gracefully explored the…
The Staircase
The bizarre case of Kathleen Peterson’s death, which has yet to be fully resolved to this day, has been the…
Godland
Dir. Hlynur Palmason
On the one hand, Godland is a film about nature’s unforgiving beauty. Like the photographs the priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset…
Fabric of the Human Body
Dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel
While primarily a showcase of endoscopic footage of various surgeries in different hospitals throughout Paris—which should already be enough to…
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…
Holy Spider
Dir. Ali Abbasi
As a crime thriller, Holy Spider is taut and terrifying, a modern noir that manages to unnerve despite the familiar…
Return to Seoul
Dir. Davy Chou
In both documentaries and films, adoptees meeting their biological parents for the first time is an event often painted in…
Killer Coaster
Dir. Nikolay Lange-Nielsen
A murder mystery with an absurdist comedic bent, Killer Coaster initially comes off as too much. It struggles to juggle…
The Taste of Things
Dir. Tran Anh Hung
If it’s true that to cook is to love, then Dodin and Eugenie must be enraptured by one another. They…
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…
Four Daughters
Dir. Kaouther Ben Hania
Normally, a film like this would be a straightforward documentary with archival footage and key interviews with experts in the…
Our Father, the Devil
Dir. Ellie Foumbi
There are horrors in the world that people have faced, and if they survive, they live with the trauma for…
Sick of Myself
Dir. Kristoffer Borgli
One woman’s main character syndrome reaches shocking lows in this vicious Norwegian satire of social-media-era narcissists. Signe (Kristine Kujath Thorp)…
Utama
Dir. Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Before anything else, Utama will knock you off your feet with its breathtaking beauty. Set in the Bolivian highlands, it…
Yuni
Dir. Kamila Andini
Education is a human right, but for many girls around the world, this isn’t necessarily guaranteed– especially if they want…
Cairo Conspiracy
Dir. Tarik Saleh
When he’s accepted into the prestigious Islamic university Al-Azhar, fisherman’s son Adam (Tawfeek Barhom) gets an eye-opening education — but…
The Exiles
Dir. Ben Klein & Female director
Through her irreverent, no-bullshit point of view, Chinese documentarian Christine Choy balances out The Exiles’ painful reckoning with a traumatic…
The Duke
Dir. Roger Michell
In 1961, Francisco de Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington was stolen from London’s National Gallery, but the theft…
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Dir. Arthur Harari
It’s an incredible story, but it’s one that only really deserves to be told a certain way, which director Arthur…
Close
Dir. Lukas Dhont
Leo and Remi are close. They play, eat, and sleep together, and in between those moments, they share every thought…
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…