A young exotic dancer shacks up with the son of a Russian billionaire, much to the despair of his parents, in Sean Baker's latest down-and-dirty dramedy.
By Mark Asch
Ali Abbasi's attempted takedown of America's previous (and perhaps next) President of the United States, charting his early years under the mentorship of Roy Cohn, lacks the killer instinct.
The clashing cultures of Canada and Iran are fused in Matthew Rankin’s dryly comic follow-up to The Twentieth Century.
David Cronenberg’s melancholy exploration of how we retain our connection with the dead makes for one of his most beautiful love stories.
India Donaldson's feature debut is a naturalistic portrait of the tensions between young women and their fathers as a teenager takes a hiking trip with her dad and his best friend.
A fading star signs up for a strange medical procedure in Coralie Fargeat's vacuous attempt at a Hollywood body horror.
A large Italian-American family gather for the holidays in Tyler Taormina's freewheeling festive feature.
A young tennis star refuses to open about an abusive coach in Leonardo Van Dijl’s impressive feature debut.
This ghastly musical melodrama from Jacques Audiard tells of a Mexican cartel bosses’s gender affirming surgery.
The Chinese maestro delivers his greatest film in this cut-and-paste jukebox musical melodrama.
Nicolas Cage stars as a man who comes a cropper of a local surfer gang in Lorcan Finnigan's unsuccessful psychological thriller.
A celebrated documentary filmmaker makes a deathbed confession in Paul Schrader's adaptation of Russell Bank's novel Foregone.
Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another scorcher in this innovative and darkly comic trio of films about spiritual domination.
Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose.
Andrea Arnold returns with a flighty kitchen sink reverie that sadly falls from grace in a muddled second half.
The death of a beloved uncle in a middle-class Zambian family brings some difficult truths to light in Rungano Nyoni's surreal second feature.
Magnus Von Horn brings subtlety and empathy to the serial killer genre in this extraordinary true-life yarn.
A young woman with her heart set on social media stardom gets a shot at fame when she's offered an audition for a reality series in Agathe Riedinger's feature debut.
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