Hard Truths
Dir. Mike Leigh
Hurt people hurt people, the saying goes, and nowhere is that more evident than in Hard Truths. Directed by Mike…
Housekeeping for Beginners
Dir. Goran Stolevski
Only a few people in Dita’s house are related by blood, but you wouldn’t know that by how they move.…
Dead Talents Society
Dir. John Hsu
In the Dead Talents Society, ghosts haunting humans are less of a scare, and more a performance that can grant…
Touch
Dir. Baltasar Kormákur
With the internet able to connect people from miles away, the concept of the one that got away has become…
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Dir. Titus Kaphar
Exhibiting Forgiveness does what it says in the title. The plot moves when a repentant family member returns to the…
A Different Man
Dir. Aaron Schimberg
“Inner beauty is what counts” is a cliche many films have tried and failed to tackle, but A Different Man…
The Dead Don't Hurt
Dir. Viggo Mortensen
Written, directed, and scored by Viggo Mortensen, The Dead Don’t Hurt is a visually stunning, emotionally potent, but still impressively…
Sugarcane
Dir. Emily Kassie & Julian Brave NoiseCat
Everything about Sugarcane is arresting, whether it’s the epic shots of the sweeping reservation (“Canada is our land,” one native…
Snack Shack
Dir. Adam Rehmeier
Snack Shack is the quintessential summer movie. It’s sun-soaked and full of mirth as it follows two rowdy boys fighting…
The Royal Hotel
Dir. Kitty Green
The Royal Hotel sees Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) resorting to take up a dire live-in job behind…
Problemista
Dir. Julio Torres
Some films struggle to balance style with substance, but Problemista isn’t one of them. It’s brandished with Torres’ unique brand…
Bird
Dir. Andrea Arnold
Given the genre being centered on a child protagonist, many coming-of-age stories sideline parents in the narrative, sometimes to the…
My Old Ass
Dir. Megan Park
My Old Ass has a very simple premise, one it doesn’t even take the effort of explaining. For whatever reason,…
Manodrome
Dir. John Trengove
South African director John Trengove follows-up his debut The Wound with another take on masculinity, this time set in the…
Kokomo City
Dir. D. Smith
The idea of representation in movies is often limited to superficial gestures of putting on screen people who look a…
