Tensions flare between front of house and kitchen staff in Alonso Ruizpalacios' Times Square restaurant-set drama.
Joshua Oppenheimer returns with an ambitious, post-apocalyptic musical whose thematic flights of fancy are just a little too strident.
This lightweight Chabrolian country drama from François Ozon sees an elderly retiree with a complex past trying to do right by her family.
By Anton Bitel
Karan Kandhari’s film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses is an unpredictable, genre-bending delight.
The dire lot of a low-paid factory worker is the subject of this rigorous if hardly revelatory character study from debut director Laura Carreira.
Nick Love and Danny Dyer are back with yet another boorish, small-minded take on the football hooligan genre.
By Mark Asch
Pamela Anderson excels as an over-the-hill Vegas showgirl seeing out her notice period in this low-key, vibey backstage drama from Gia Coppola.
Walter Salles returns to narrative filmmaking with a sensitive depiction of the forced disappearance of former congressman Rubens Paiva, and the devastation his family faced.
Two sisters share an unshakable bond in Ariane Labed's uniquely strange feature debut.
Renée Zellweger dons her big knickers again as the frazzled heroine, this time getting her groove back after her husband's death.
Lily Franky stars in this tender tale about a father and son travelling from Tokyo to the Lake District to scatter his late wife's ashes.
The life of a snail-fixated loner plays out as a series of disasters in this stridently emotional animated feature from Australian filmmaker, Adam Elliot.
By Mark Asch
An Iranian judge appointed to Tehran's Revolutionary Court grapples with dissent both at work and at home in Mohammad Rasoulof’s politically charged thriller.
Rachel Morrison directs a script by Barry Jenkins with this sadly-underwhelming underdog boxing biopic of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields.
Tensions reach fever pitch in a rural Irish farming community in Christopher Andrews' fierce feature debut.
Korean director Hong Sang-soo returns with this playful study of creation, performance and why films don’t need audiences to be successful.
By Mark Asch
Jason Reitman pans back to 1975 and Lorne Michaels' ambitious plans for a live broadcast sketch show in his fanfiction retelling of SNL's inception.
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