Karim Aïnouz's English language debut is a frustratingly buttoned-up take on the life of Henry VIII's final wife, Catherine Parr.
Joanna Arnow's feature debut is a blisteringly funny take on millennial malaise and the search for reciprocal companionship.
Wes Anderson returns with one of his most dazzling, rich and playfully self-reflexive films to date, brought to eye-popping life by an all-timer ensemble.
Jessica Hausner's drama about a teacher who begins a troubling diet club at an elite high school is a poorly-judged slog to sit through.
Another gorgeous tragicomic farce from Finnish maestro Aki Kaurismäki, a heartfelt cinephile ode to the possibility of love among the working classes.
A woman has to stand trial after her husband dies in suspicious circumstances in Justine Triet's compelling courtroom drama.
A young couple's romance threatens a drought-stricken village in Ramata-Toulaye Sy's stirring debut.
Todd Haynes' deliciously dark melodrama sees Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman go head-to-head as a housewife and the woman tasked with playing her in a film.
Three young adults navigate the intricacies of romance in a snowy city in Northern China in Anthony Chen's latest drama.
By Mark Asch
A filmmaker in crisis finds inspiration in the mountains in Michel Gondry's first film in eight years.
The latest documentary from Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania centers a quartet of young women whose lived are changed forever when two of them join ISIS.
Sprawling and poetic French period drama powered by an understated chemistry between Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste.
Martin Scorsese’s wistful remembrance of tragedies that befell the Osage nation is a film of high seriousness and low spectacle.
Jonathan Glazer returns with his first film in nine years – an austere, chilling depiction of a German family maintaining normalcy in close proximity to the Holocaust.
Brazil’s Kleber Mendonça Filho returns with this extremely charming personal survey of the grand picture palaces of Recife.
More verbose magnificence from Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who makes three-and-half hours whiz by with this comic portrait of an untreatable misanthrope.
Warwick Thornton’s spiritually-inclined Outback drama sees a nameless aboriginal boy face off against Cate Blanchett’s anxiety-prone nun.
Mexican provocateur Amat Escalante makes a half-cocked bid for mainstream respectability in this intriguing tale of a young man’s torrid search for his missing mother.
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