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Dir. D.W. Young
Those unfamiliar with James Hamilton would be forgiven for asking “Why him?” Why does he get a documentary? What makes…
All We Imagine as Light
Dir. Payal Kapadia
All We Imagine as Light is a political film that has many smart and moving things to say about the…
Scrapper
Dir. Charlotte Regan
Be prepared to have the expectations you form after reading Scrapper’s synopsis shattered: though it is about a 12-year-old dealing…
Fremont
Dir. Babak Jalali
Aptly for a film partly set in a fortune cookie factory, Fremont deals with luck — specifically, the other side…
The Last Stop in Yuma County
Dir. Francis Galluppi
Shot for only 20 days with a budget of a million dollars, The Last Stop in Yuma County is a…
My Love Affair with Marriage
Dir. Signe Baumane
It’s not often you get a female perspective on the USSR, much less a female artist with little means. Signe…
Remembering Gene Wilder
Dir. Ron Frank
It’s immediately apparent that there are more carefully made documentaries out there than Remembering Gene Wilder. The film is riddled…
Blue Giant
Dir. Yuzuru Tachikawa
2023 was a great year for animation with films like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Nimona, and The Boy and the…
Chicken for Linda!
Dir. Chiara Malta & Sébastien Laudenbach
While the market for animation is mostly dominated by American 3D and Japanese anime, once in a while, a film…
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,…
Swan Song
Dir. Chelsea McMullan
If you’re hard working and well-situated enough, you get to chase and achieve and live out your dreams for your…
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…
20 Days in Mariupol
Dir. Mstyslav Chernov
Formally speaking, 20 Days in Mariupol is little more than a compilation of footage bravely collected by Mstyslav Chernov in…
Afire
Dir. Christian Petzold
There’s something rich at the heart of Afire that, whether intentionally or not, is kept at arm’s length from the…
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…
When Evil Lurks
Dir. Demián Rugna
Many films that deal with the advent of some sort of apocalypse usually hit the ground running, but When Evil…
Identifying Features
Dir. Fernanda Valadez
Rather than talking about what it takes to get to the other side of the border, Identifying Features instead focuses…
Song Without a Name
Dir. Melina León
At times of political strife, how can one seek justice? Song Without a Name could have presented its case in…
Mario
Dir. Marcel Gisler
When striving towards your life goal, some concessions have to be made in order to get there, e.g. you would…
Three Girls
Dir. Philippa Lowthorpe
Sexual assault and trafficking are never easy to depict onscreen, especially when they’re based on true events, but Three Girls…
Lie with Me
Dir. Olivier Peyon
Oh, the pains of first love. Many a film has been created in memory of it, so the struggles of…
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Dir. Alain Resnais
While initially commissioned to be an atomic bomb documentary, Hiroshima Mon Amour became something entirely different. For starters, it’s not…
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Dir. Robert Hamer
Murder is terrible, of course, but it proves to be surprisingly hilarious in Kind Hearts and Coronets. On top of…
In a Lonely Place
Dir. Nicholas Ray
Hollywood, 1950s. A list of filmmakers were denied work due to suspected Communist Party membership or sympathies. Some folded under…
High Sierra
Dir. Raoul Walsh
Nearly a decade after the Hays Code, the time for glorified gangsters was over. However, before Hollywood shifted their gaze…
The Point
Dir. Fred Wolf
Making a video for a concept album isn’t particularly new, but you’d be hard pressed to find a feature as…
Hundreds of Beavers
Dir. Mike Cheslik
Who would’ve thought a wordless, black-and-white, slapstick comedy would still be hugely entertaining in this day and age? Hundreds of…