One of the cinema’s most noble roles is to challenge pre-conceived perceptions and tackle difficult questions about humanity and the world. Here are some of the most important and topically challenging movies to stream right now.
There is nothing quite like The Substance right now. It’s unsubtle, it’s provocative, and its satirical humor can be a…
After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…
Given the original real-life story behind it, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that The Girl with the Needle was so…
For the longest time, land was where people formed strength in community, where people were born, lived, died, and was…
Between its maximalist production design and increasingly dark comedic set pieces, the most striking thing about Damien Chazelle’s critically misunderstood…
As a crime thriller, Holy Spider is taut and terrifying, a modern noir that manages to unnerve despite the familiar…
Since we live in a society, interacting with authority is inescapable. Terrestrial Verses depict fairly mundane day-to-day interactions– getting a…
Earnest, beautiful, and tender, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All is many things: a road trip movie that sweeps the midwest…
At two hours and nearly 30 minutes, Stonewalling is quite long. The third film from spouses Ryuji Otsuka and Huang…
In this documentary about John Allen Chau — the American Christian missionary reportedly killed when he tried to preach the…
While not its only cause, the increase of conflict and civil wars has spurred a global refugee crisis. Millions of…
Set in a small town in Romania, R.M.N. is a challenging slow-burn that explores what happens to an insular community…
This is the type of movie I completely fell in love with but cannot articulate exactly why. Maybe it’s the…
This Oscar-nominated drama tells the story of the events leading up to the Srebrenica massacre, in which 8372 Bosnian Muslims…
Small Things Like These is the kind of film that doesn’t have a grand resolution, a dramatic climax, or a…
As is only appropriate for a limited series about such a horrific period in human history, The Underground Railroad isn’t…
Surreal, off-putting, and extremely disturbing, Infinity Pool plays with the concepts of cloning and the death penalty to craft an…
Fans of the iconic crime series 24 will find much to like in Rabbit Hole, not least because Kiefer Sutherland…
If you’re expecting a documentary about the particular U2 concert in Sarajevo, to focus exclusively on U2, you’re not really…
Formally speaking, 20 Days in Mariupol is little more than a compilation of footage bravely collected by Mstyslav Chernov in…
We all learned that it’s good to have a free press, but most of us rarely consider why it’s good,…
Feminism has made plenty of strides in multiple areas, but even in the era of free love, talking about sex…
Challenging, strange, and utterly captivating from start to finish, Sanctuary takes the relationship between a pathetic, wealthy man and a…
To plenty of countries around the globe, democracy has become so ubiquitous that we forget it’s relatively new, at least…
There are a striking number of similarities between Priscilla and director Sofia Coppola’s earlier offering, Marie Antoinette: both revolve around…
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