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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…
Mutt
Dir. Vuk Lungulov-Klotz
Just based off its title, Mutt is already a film that tackles a state of in-between, and perhaps 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…
The Unknown Country
Dir. Morrisa Maltz
It’s hard not to watch The Unknown Country and think of Nomadland: along with similarities in their Terrence Malick-inspired visuals,…
The Beast
Dir. Bertrand Bonello
Are connections truly fated, completely chosen, or purely circumstantial? The slow tragedy of Henry James’ The Beast in the Jungle…
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…
Another Body
Dir. Reuben Hamlyn & Sophie Compton
Sophie Compton and Reubyn Hamlyn’s British-American documentary about the harm of deepfakes won the SXSW Special Jury Award for its…
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…
Huesera: The Bone Woman
Dir. Michelle Garza Cervera
Huesera: The Bone Woman might not be the scariest film horror fans would see, but it does strike at 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…
How to Have Sex
Dir. Molly Manning Walker
While named as a “how-to”, How to Have Sex is less of an instruction manual, and more of a collection…
Other People's Children
Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski
Other People’s Children wrestles with some very tricky life experiences: bonding with a partner’s child in the agonizing knowledge that…
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…
EO
Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
It’s a bold move, centering a drama around a creature as docile as a donkey, but EO pulls it off…
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…
Old Henry
Dir. Potsy Ponciroli
It’s not easy to abandon the past. Even if you want to shed your new identity, the memory of what…
Shin Kamen Rider
Dir. Hideaki Anno
With Marvel and DC monopolizing the superhero landscape with high budgets, big-name actors, and CGI graphics, Shin Kamen Rider feels…
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…